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Chinese buying up all the baby milk !

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gillybob Sat 31-Aug-19 10:00:35

I saw it with my own eyes yesterday as DD and I were in Boots (Newcastle) looking for baby milk and baby juice. My Dd has told me in the past that she has struggled to find milk in town and that the shelves are often bare and she often has to try quite a few different shops before finding any.

Yesterday I questioned an assistant and she told me “oh don’t get me started, I could stock the shelves to the top right now (if we had any) and the Chinese would come in and buy it all. We have had to limit the milk to 10 boxes per person but they come in 6 and 8 at a time and take the maximum amount per person , meaning that people like your daughter cannot even get one box.....ditto the special baby juices”

Apparently they send it all back to China . There is a large Chinese population in Newcastle and this is becoming common place in most of the shops that stock baby products. I had to hear it with my own ears and see it to believe it ! shock

Thankfully Evie is only having one bed time bottle a day now which is just as well. Not sure they can do about it ? Making the limits per person 2 or 3 instead of 10 might be a good start though.

Nico97 Sat 31-Aug-19 18:55:05

Wow ! I've only just caught up with this thread and I am gobsmacked at how combative it is. Blimey gillybob if I were you I'd think twice before I put on what was a very generalised type of comment about something happening. It does seem to be the way that GN is progressing lately - either a comment is torn to shreds or it's attack, attack, attack !
For you gilly flowers

Gonegirl Sat 31-Aug-19 18:56:13

It's nothing to do with cars. rubs hands gleefully grin

GrannyGravy13 Sat 31-Aug-19 18:56:34

In SE Essex I know Sainsbury's, Boots, Waitrose all limit the sale of baby formula to 3 tins per person, I think other retailers have similar policies.

Shaming mothers for not breast feeding is extremely low in my book......I was able to breast feed some of my children but not all of them.

Gonegirl Sat 31-Aug-19 18:57:21

The Kia is Korean btw. (I am Mrs Kia too grin)

Gonegirl Sat 31-Aug-19 18:57:48

Forget baby milk! Keep on guessing.

GagaJo Sat 31-Aug-19 19:01:23

You bugger, Gonegirl. Tell me!

GagaJo Sat 31-Aug-19 19:02:14

Kiaora????

Gonegirl Sat 31-Aug-19 19:03:03

Nope! gringringrin

GagaJo Sat 31-Aug-19 19:03:06

Killed in action?

GagaJo Sat 31-Aug-19 19:03:24

Kick in arse?

Gonegirl Sat 31-Aug-19 19:04:20

Bribe might do it.

Gonegirl Sat 31-Aug-19 19:04:59

Bloody 'ell. I hope it's not killed in action!

Gonegirl Sat 31-Aug-19 19:05:53

Kick in arse?

I thought you were threatening me. grin

GagaJo Sat 31-Aug-19 19:06:44

Bribe you with contraband (whispers, an unopened tin of SMA hungry baby). wink

GagaJo Sat 31-Aug-19 19:07:04

Kid in attic

Gonegirl Sat 31-Aug-19 19:08:40

I'm not saying it. Ask gilly.

gillybob Sat 31-Aug-19 19:09:08

Thank you Nico97 and GrannyGravy too .

Oh and for the record my DD lives at least a 90 minute round trip from “Benton, Asda” That’s even assuming all public transport was seamless ( and free of course).

And and ( can you even say and, and ?). There is a difference between the cows milk used in baby formula and the ordinary cows milk we buy . Something to do with the treatment and protein . I’m no expert . But it’s really not so simple as just swapping for a baby with allergies. What do some people care anyway?

Oh Yes the Kia is Korean Gonegirl my DH drives one , big bloomin old ugly thing it is with about a million miles on the clock, but he can get a machine or 7 people in it so for him it’s ideal .

GagaJo Sat 31-Aug-19 19:10:23

Big ugly old thing, is it, is it Gonegirl?

kittylester Sat 31-Aug-19 19:25:13

I've got it too gg and I agree with gilly.

This thread is just plain sad.

Some people try to take offence when a general truth has been posted.

gillybob Sat 31-Aug-19 19:29:17

The car not you Gaga I’ve never met you have I ? Or have I ? hmm

GagaJo Sat 31-Aug-19 19:43:53

Haha, probably not. I'm in town no more than a couple of times a month. Otherwise I'm usually out and about in Northumberland or the coast.

callgirl1 Sat 31-Aug-19 21:19:15

I totally agree that this thread isn`t racist in any way, but neither was my post the other week.

Barmeyoldbat Sat 31-Aug-19 21:52:42

The reason they are buying it up is because formula milk made in Asia, has found to have in one case talc powder added. You can't trust anything out in S E Asia that is made in China. For example any tablets like travel sickness tablets, if you offer them to a local the first question they ask where is it made. They won't take anything made in China.

There was great scandal with the ilk formula and in Thailand the same was happening in the shops. They have a Boots a Waitrose equivalent in Thailand.

petra Sat 31-Aug-19 21:57:59

Callgirl
Most of us knew it wasn't ?

gillybob Sat 31-Aug-19 22:02:43

It’s just too easy to cry racist if anyone dare mention another country , race, religion or ethnicity. angry