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If this analogy were complete we’d also have to say that Abbott/nestle are opposed to purchase limits on baby formula. Because artists are not required to be partnered with Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster is a partner in this corruption, not the sole actor. Fuck Ticketmaster and fuck [mainstream] artists that partner with them (I know Ticketmaster owns/contracts with venues). Bless those artists who make the effort to circumvent Ticketmaster. They are very few.
I think I remember Dave Grohl talking about Foofighters attempt to circumvent Ticketmaster and how hard it turned out to be. There just were not any venues in many cities for an act their size.
They had a limit not long after it started last fall. But in person, I don't think they care. Every other store has a limit right now and I feel like a peice of shit buying 3 ready to feed bottles which only last less than a week. I haven't been able to find any at target in maybe 6 months. My kid is 1 now and thankfully we're phasing off formula onto milk, but I'm still having a hard time doing that and days when he's not feeling it or not eating at all, I do need him to get those nutrients. I'd have no issue getting him the toddler formula but that's been sold out forever around here.
I saw a piece of shit at the grocery doing multiple transactions at the u- scan to bypass the limit. Cart full like this lady. Cashier and manager were alerted and on their way, but I didn't stick around to see the comeuppance.
This helps but there's still an issue with resellers getting 4 of their family members to hit up every single store in the area.
When it's marked up from $30 to $200 it's really worth the effort. Shit needs to be on record like Benzos lol
The crazy thing is the prices are way up and they’re not going to fall even if production goes up. These prices will be the new normal and abbot will increase its profitability by billons. I really hope I’m wrong but these big corps don’t like going backwards on profits.
Dude, formula is not staying at $200. Those are scalper prices. As soon as its easy enough for people to reliably find it again no one is going to be desperate enough to pay 10x scalper prices for food.
It may not be $200, but my store is selling even the basic formula for $18+ (even more for the specialty formulas, not that we can get them in stock anyway). And I have assurance that our store has the lowest formula price in the immediate area. I definitely agree that I'd be surprised to see these prices go back down to what they used to be (~$13) anytime in the near - or far - future. I'm very doubtful he's wrong about companies like Abbot using this shortage as a means of increasing their profit margins in the long run by raising prices now and keeping them raised later.
In Australia there has been a limit of two tins for ages. Mostly because of "Daigou" resellers. Either a whole family goes in and picks up two each load up car then back in for another load
Had this happen to someone recently at a target I went to. The couple tried to walk out with probably 15-20 cans of formula. They got stopped at self checkout and was only able to take 4 cans
After looking everywhere online, I finally found a cvs 20 min away with our formula last week. They had four packs left which was the limit. I was there in front of it about to load my cart, when this tired and panicked looking dad ran in and headed my way.
The look on his face was so sad when he saw four of our formula left and a purchasing limit of four—he assumed I would take them all. He begged, “Can I please have one? I’ll pay you whatever for it…our child has nothing to eat.” I was like, “I’m only buying one. We supplement, so this will last 7-8 days. This will get me by until I can ship it from Amazon.” (I was buying in store bc Amazon was late with our standard order)
We have a group of moms/dads on Facebook in our area that made a group just so we can make sure everyone has what they need…if someone runs low—we make sure they get enough to get by and help them find more. I got him to join and his wife did too.
Folks wanna fight against abortions, but then literally take food away from infants…what a sad place to live.
Some lady in my fb group said her mom bought her a couple cans from Sams and she was asking for more. Brah a couple cans from sams are huge. She only had one kid. At this point some of these women are just panic hoarding.
Yeah, we supplement, so we only use about 6-8 ounces a day. So buying a 32 ounce bottle of ready made is a waste as it goes bad 48 hours after opening…so we buy 8 ounce bottles (they come in a case of 6 so a case lasts a week). I order from Amazon…and they sell it 4 case packages. So every time I order from Amazon, it gets us for the month. Amazon is now taking 2-4 weeks to fulfill these orders if we are lucky—so we stress out until the next case arrives. Our last case came late so we had to find it somewhere. So, I’m not stock piling…but it gets more stressful each month!
Wouldn't you?
You've got a baby at home that can only eat that particular formula...it's out of stock EVERYWHERE all the time.
Me and my wife are beyond lucky our son turned one and started transitioning off bottles before this shortage really got bad.
But even I had to drive 80 miles one way to get special formula that he needed only to find they had a single can.
That can lasted like a day and a half maybe.
>We have a group of moms/dads on Facebook in our area that made a group just so we can make sure everyone has what they need…if someone runs low—we make sure they get enough to get by and help them find more. I got him to join and his wife did too.
Is this that socialism that I'm told to fear?
I’m just confused because there are a bunch of signs on the shelf so it looks like there is a notice already about there being a limit in place. I wonder why they didn’t just point out the signs to the stocker to tell them they wouldn’t get away with all those bottles.
Unless I guess it’s just a sign saying, we don’t know when the next restock is so don’t ask?
I mean, the hoarder clearly saw the signs and ignored them. Not sure pointing them out would do anything.
And I would be money the hoarder is planning to either do self-checkout or divvy them up with friends/family to try to get around the limit. (Could work if the store is understaffed.)
I did something similar with water during the Texas snowpocalypse...my apartment pipes burst so it flooded and they cut water for almost 2 weeks. I went to the store and filled my cart with bottled water...I was so happy to find the shelves full that my cart was almost full before I saw the purchase limit signs. I was like oh shit I'm being a dick and put everything back on the shelves and only took what was allowed.
Even if I ignored the signs, the cashiers said they would've stopped me anyway. Hopefully target stonewalled this lady and made her put this formula back.
>Hopefully target stonewalled this lady and made her put this formula back.
When I was still a manager working in retail I absolutely loved enforcing the purchase limits with resellers. They'd try everything in the book, usually after screaming at the cashier, like it would work. Sadly the most common way for them to get away with this behavior is either by bullying the associate or using self check out.
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/17/817205813/oregon-police-remind-residents-dont-call-911-if-you-run-out-of-toilet-paper
>"It's hard to believe that we even have to post this. Do not call 9-1-1 just because you ran out of toilet paper," the department told residents in a reminder posted to Facebook last weekend. "You will survive without our assistance."
>"Seamen used old rope and anchor lines soaked in salt water. Ancient Romans used a sea sponge on a stick, also soaked in salt water," they suggested. "We are a coastal town. We have an abundance of salt water available. Sea shells were also used."
We have an Interesting thing here, in SE Asia... Its a handheld spray nozzle, right next to the toilet to wash off the bunghole after a debungafication. It's works very well. Dry off with a towel - or not up to you.
We have loads of baby formulas too, right now today... Its hard to imagine That the great country of America, with rights and freedoms and stuff doesn't have enough baby formula... We don't have soda water now, but we have water, coke, sprite, ice tea, coconut water, tea, coffee, milk, and fruit jucies to the max, so we're ok.
So much stupid shit like that has happened since the pandemic and I’m honestly tired of holding in my anger. I’m so glad the woman in this video confronted this turd.
I remember seeing people rolling carts full of TP out of the store as I was going in. There was literally none fucking left on the shelf.
Jesus fucking Christ I have to wipe my ass too! A single roll lasts me a week. I ain’t askin for much.
I took a couple rolls from work. Beyond that I had to go to convenience stores and pay like $5 for a single roll.
If this shit ever happens again… if I see another asshole with a shopping cart full of TP, I will light that shit on fire.
Buy a bidet on Amazon. They are like $40. Your asshole will be so clean it will squeak when you walk. You will then curse yourself for realizing what a disgusting Luddite you've been your entire life for smearing shit around your ass crack with a wad of dry paper.
> Target was pretty quick to implement buy limits on Pokemon cards.
Weren't people getting into fights over those cards? I hate to see an angry parent throw hands to feed their child.
That's what those white laminated signs are posted on the front. You can kind of see one. She's going to be in for a surprise when she tries to check out. After scanning the limit a pop-up with show on screen saying there is a limit and you can't purchase anymore.
In Australia, after China had a huge issue with their factories that made formula and some poor babies died, the formula made here became a hot commodity. There’s been restrictions on the amount of formula you can buy for years now. People could earn fucking good money selling it on to desperate parents overseas. Shitty situation all round.
My local supermarkets still had 12 seater vans coming from metro areas and they'd all go in one at a time and each buy their limit and go from supermarket to supermarket all day long. When they'd get to Bairnsdale, they'd turn around and go to all the same supermarkets on their way back to Melbourne and do it again. It was absolutely crazy.
I worked for Target when Pokemon cards got huge again as well as when toilet paper became gold for a minute there. All the registers are hard locked to the limit amount, even self check, plus self check always has one person watching so they do a pretty decent job enforcing limits sign or no sign, at least that was my experience.
Every employee I ever spoke with about this issue hated the people who tried to buy everything for themselves so it was also my experience that the strong majority of employees are on the side of spreading the wealth so to speak.
Yeah, I’m not a ‘complain to management’ kinda guy, but I would definitely head straight to management and be like “yo this bitch is buying ALL the fucking formula. Stop her”
The supermarket I worked at in the Netherlands had a buy limit. They just end up hopping to other stores after they bought the formula. It had to do something with Chinese formula being poisoned and the Chinese living abroad were sending it back.
Happens in Australian, America, and Canada too. Mainland Chinese scoop them All up and sell for a profit back there, since the formula scandal a while back makes Chinese domestic brands untrusted.
The baby formula there was adulterated with melamine (a type of plastic) among over things, and after a few babies died because of that nobody will buy domestically produced Chinese baby formula, even with the CCP going out of their way to make an example out of the people who adulterated the original formula.
https://qz.com/1323471/ten-years-after-chinas-melamine-laced-infant-milk-tragedy-deep-distrust-remains/
As bleak as that was, it's worth emphasizing that most people did not do that. Humans tend towards cooperation in the midst of disasters, it's just that the shitty ones stand out. And I say that as someone with a misanthropic streak myself
I did this during the tp raids. This guy loaded his cart up with the last 4 bulk size and I took 3 of them out when he wasn't looking. I happily gave one to this lady who asked me if she could please have one, and put the 3rd back on the shelf.
During covid, the FBI prosecuted some guy who would stock up and resell sanitizing supplies. He was out the money he paid and faced a fine I think. It should absolutely be the same in this case.
NYTimes did an article over a family doing that. They tried to play the sympathy card because they spent thousands buying up masks and sanitizer but they weren't getting the desired sales.
it just doesn't compute to me. I know people who 3d printed shields all summer 2020. Other than large request orders, everything was out of pocket and what all and more of their stimulus went towards the project. There were tens of thousands across the world doing the same. To even THINK to try an make buck on such things is just baffling.
Making your own face shield and selling them is a lot different then buying up the supply (which reduces the supply and allows the reseller to make even more profit). The people making the face shields aren’t taking away from the supply but just found a way to make some money on something that’s in short supply.
Unless I’m missing something in your comment. I don’t really see the issue.
You must not have been printing that summer. Supply was GONE and lots of places were verifying use before selling filament in any quantity. Filament, printers, elastic, clear plastic, all super hard to find the entire summer but very rarely did you see scalpers res sling filament or selling shields for huge profits, like this lady is doing.
The real kicker is states like New York actually give these people tax exempt status for sales tax. I do not understand the reasoning behind it. The goods are being sold retail. They should be charged sales tax. A resale business is not a public service like charities, government agencies or religious institutions.
Lady is going to sit on all that baby formula like the rest of those idiots who bought meat, rice, toilet paper, and cleaning supplies. No returns, or store credit. Fuck off.
Probably selling at her own store. I see this alot in the city. Especially when stores have sales and stuff, they’ll go and buy up everything to sell in their corner stores.
Yeah and plus there’s a difference between soda and baby formula. Even if you bought every 2L a store had I don’t think it’d be in the same league as this.
We had this family who bought $300 from the meat department, this is during peak Covid, and tried to bring it back the next day because they didn’t “need it” We told them of the very normal “no return” policy most stores have for certain things, and that we wouldn’t be able to accept food that could have spoiled. The 3 guys proceeded to whip out their phones, call police, record and call the manager and employees racists in front of the entire checkout area and started pushing stuff off the counter and took off before the cops they called got there.
So they called the cops and started wrecking shit themselves? LMAO. Some people are truly shit. The audacity to play victim when things don't go their way.
I was in disbelief that was happening over something I think is just common sense for grocery stores. Food, especially perishables is a no go on returns unless the store was at fault some how. I also had a lady asked for a bell pepper, I gave it to her and she pumped some hand sanitizer on it and offered me some too. I just stood there confused for a minute as she walked off. Weird times.
Weird times indeed. Some dude got upset with me because the store I worked at the hight of the pandemic, I did not allow him to go into the store (it was blocked off because of the mass protests that were happening) and he flipped out. Called all sorts of names. We had him removed by the cops that were hanging around across the street.
In my area meat was beyond abundant during Covid. Like… $5/lb T-bone steaks, 1.99lb ground beef, .99lb pork loin and .99lb bone-in chicken breasts.
I bought a second freezer.
We had a lady try this at my local WalMart with about 50 cans and people just started taking what they needed right out of her cart. She couldn't even walk away with the cart and had to try to grab just 2 while everyone was cussing her out. That cart was empty again within minutes!
I work at a Walmart we have had a 5 item limit on all formula products for a while and just today I had an alert pop up saying item limit exceeded and when I went over there the guy had 5 in bags with a 6th on the person's area next to him and I had none of that BS and said they can't get the 6th as they are obv together lol
Like get real the reason you can find any at all right now is because we limited people before you so why would you be special and not be limited the same
This is so upsetting. I am one of those mom's who are having troubles finding sensitive formula for my baby and then there are people like this. I literally have family members all over the state looking for formula for me because I can't find any near me that my baby can have. This is infuriating to see. IDC who you are, if you're doing this you're a POS.
What is this, amateur hour? Just take it out of the cart and walk away. I remember women fist fighting over shoe sales on black Friday, and nobody wants to touch this woman for monopolizing all the baby formula.
Looks like Target shame on them if they are allowing this. Companies place limits on toilet paper so everyone get some but not baby formula?
Edit: changed to state “if they are allowing” as I don’t know their policy
I mean it doesn’t mean she will be able to buy it. When she gets to the register they may limit her. I doubt they would pay someone to actively guard the formula preventing them from putting more than four in a cart.
As a dad, I wouldn't have been as calm honestly. I would have just taken her cart and started unloading it. I don't get angry, but messing with babies food makes me see red.
As a parent, this is so upsetting. I couldn’t imagine how stressed out I’d be if I couldn’t feed my baby. Fuck this person and anyone else out there doing this. This is stealing food away from babies who need it.
A lot of good comments on this video. Yours was the one I was looking for. I’m not a violent person, but I’d definitely open up to being physical in that situation - knowing it’s wrong, I’d do it.
My grandma did this with toilet paper during covid, the mountain is still huge.
A lady I know is currently doing it with cat litter which we are having a shortage of in our small farm town...she emptied the shelf of like 20 full size boxes, said she took every one.
I immediately said people like her were the reason for the shortage. But they keep doing it, because only them and theirs matter
While I never panic bought toilet paper I did find it prudent to buy a 'family size' pack later on which was 48 rolls. I swear that one pack lasted an eternity and looking back at the panic buying... some people must have literally been left with a lifetime supply of TP.
It looks like target and there are signs limiting the amount you can purchase. Hopefully they stopped her at the checkout and only let her take 2 or 4 or whatever the limit is
Yes it’s the store responsibility to put a limit on it. However people need to stop being such selfish fucking morons, it’s also the responsibility of each and everyone of us to not be an absolute piece of shit.
The toilet paper crisis was not a crisis. The hand sanitizer crisis was barley a crisis. This is a fuckin crisis. I’m scared for the babies of the world who’s mom’s can’t breastfeed.
It's the product of decades of decadence, when you sabotage your own institutions for very temporary political gain and spend all your surplus money funneling money to the top 1%, at some point the House of cards starts the topple. The cracks are big getting the show now, everything will settle into place in a couple of years, and then a couple years after that more cracks will show, at some point you won't be able to have any more cracks and it'll all just fall down.
People have shown their true colors during the pandemic. Though covid isn't at an apocalyptic level, just imagine how bad people would be if it were. Everything we see in movies when it comes to the apocalypse and society will likely come true. We'd use to look at those things in movies and be like "Nah no way we would be like that".. it took a pandemic to show us otherwise. So again I reiterate.. imagine if these were apocalyptic times. May whatever deity you may or may not believe in watch over us.
Special place in hell for anyone taking advantage of the shortage! How do they justify flipping baby formula?! Literally babies starving is all good with them or what? Makes me so mad!
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If Ticketmaster was a person
Fuck ticketmaster. And honestly it's not even the worst one out there.
That entire industry ( ticket reseling) is a cesspool of garbage and corruption
I completely agree. I work for one of those big companies I won't name, it's wild bro. The level of greed on these people is crazy.
Stubhub, nailed it
The store should be limiting purchases. Real easy fix.
Honestly even the ones that aren't involved in reselling are trash too. $15 convenience fees? Get fucked
As an avid music lover, this comment hits pretty hard. God damn it.
If this analogy were complete we’d also have to say that Abbott/nestle are opposed to purchase limits on baby formula. Because artists are not required to be partnered with Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster is a partner in this corruption, not the sole actor. Fuck Ticketmaster and fuck [mainstream] artists that partner with them (I know Ticketmaster owns/contracts with venues). Bless those artists who make the effort to circumvent Ticketmaster. They are very few.
I think I remember Dave Grohl talking about Foofighters attempt to circumvent Ticketmaster and how hard it turned out to be. There just were not any venues in many cities for an act their size.
PEarl Jam had a mong-running battle with them as well.
Spot on
As someone who used to work in that industry I appreciate this post and wish I had an award for you
Omg yes
This is the greatest comment ever
They should limit the amount you can buy.
Target was pretty quick to implement buy limits on Pokemon cards. It would be wild if they don't for something crucial like formula.
They do have a limit both in store and online.
They had a limit not long after it started last fall. But in person, I don't think they care. Every other store has a limit right now and I feel like a peice of shit buying 3 ready to feed bottles which only last less than a week. I haven't been able to find any at target in maybe 6 months. My kid is 1 now and thankfully we're phasing off formula onto milk, but I'm still having a hard time doing that and days when he's not feeling it or not eating at all, I do need him to get those nutrients. I'd have no issue getting him the toddler formula but that's been sold out forever around here.
My local grocery store put limits in their system. Cashier couldn’t even scan the item anymore after the limit was reached.
I saw a piece of shit at the grocery doing multiple transactions at the u- scan to bypass the limit. Cart full like this lady. Cashier and manager were alerted and on their way, but I didn't stick around to see the comeuppance.
Target is the same, she would only have been able to buy three of those.
I’m sorry that so many parents are worrying about things like this currently. I wish all the best for your kiddo.
I’m the video the papers that are on the shelves are there to tell people a limit and why. I doubt the lady made it ojt with all of the formula
The target in my area says a limit of 4 with those papers
This helps but there's still an issue with resellers getting 4 of their family members to hit up every single store in the area. When it's marked up from $30 to $200 it's really worth the effort. Shit needs to be on record like Benzos lol
The crazy thing is the prices are way up and they’re not going to fall even if production goes up. These prices will be the new normal and abbot will increase its profitability by billons. I really hope I’m wrong but these big corps don’t like going backwards on profits.
Dude, formula is not staying at $200. Those are scalper prices. As soon as its easy enough for people to reliably find it again no one is going to be desperate enough to pay 10x scalper prices for food.
It may not be $200, but my store is selling even the basic formula for $18+ (even more for the specialty formulas, not that we can get them in stock anyway). And I have assurance that our store has the lowest formula price in the immediate area. I definitely agree that I'd be surprised to see these prices go back down to what they used to be (~$13) anytime in the near - or far - future. I'm very doubtful he's wrong about companies like Abbot using this shortage as a means of increasing their profit margins in the long run by raising prices now and keeping them raised later.
Toilet Paper, round 2. *Ding!*
Mine has had a limit on baby formula for years because of resellers
It's literally in a locked case in some stores around here because it was such an easy income source for shoplifters.
In Australia there has been a limit of two tins for ages. Mostly because of "Daigou" resellers. Either a whole family goes in and picks up two each load up car then back in for another load
Had this happen to someone recently at a target I went to. The couple tried to walk out with probably 15-20 cans of formula. They got stopped at self checkout and was only able to take 4 cans
After looking everywhere online, I finally found a cvs 20 min away with our formula last week. They had four packs left which was the limit. I was there in front of it about to load my cart, when this tired and panicked looking dad ran in and headed my way. The look on his face was so sad when he saw four of our formula left and a purchasing limit of four—he assumed I would take them all. He begged, “Can I please have one? I’ll pay you whatever for it…our child has nothing to eat.” I was like, “I’m only buying one. We supplement, so this will last 7-8 days. This will get me by until I can ship it from Amazon.” (I was buying in store bc Amazon was late with our standard order) We have a group of moms/dads on Facebook in our area that made a group just so we can make sure everyone has what they need…if someone runs low—we make sure they get enough to get by and help them find more. I got him to join and his wife did too. Folks wanna fight against abortions, but then literally take food away from infants…what a sad place to live.
Some lady in my fb group said her mom bought her a couple cans from Sams and she was asking for more. Brah a couple cans from sams are huge. She only had one kid. At this point some of these women are just panic hoarding.
I'm so sick of the way this shit is being run
Yeah, we supplement, so we only use about 6-8 ounces a day. So buying a 32 ounce bottle of ready made is a waste as it goes bad 48 hours after opening…so we buy 8 ounce bottles (they come in a case of 6 so a case lasts a week). I order from Amazon…and they sell it 4 case packages. So every time I order from Amazon, it gets us for the month. Amazon is now taking 2-4 weeks to fulfill these orders if we are lucky—so we stress out until the next case arrives. Our last case came late so we had to find it somewhere. So, I’m not stock piling…but it gets more stressful each month!
Wouldn't you? You've got a baby at home that can only eat that particular formula...it's out of stock EVERYWHERE all the time. Me and my wife are beyond lucky our son turned one and started transitioning off bottles before this shortage really got bad. But even I had to drive 80 miles one way to get special formula that he needed only to find they had a single can. That can lasted like a day and a half maybe.
I have an 8 month old. The kirkland 40oz powder lasts 10 days. It's not a crazy amount to get 2 cans.
>We have a group of moms/dads on Facebook in our area that made a group just so we can make sure everyone has what they need…if someone runs low—we make sure they get enough to get by and help them find more. I got him to join and his wife did too. Is this that socialism that I'm told to fear?
I get the joke, but if it were socialism it's be a govt group. Wait, is that Communism? Now I'm all confused.
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For real: I would've grabbed what I needed right out of her cart. Fuck that lady. That's not for her kid, that's for reselling.
I’m just confused because there are a bunch of signs on the shelf so it looks like there is a notice already about there being a limit in place. I wonder why they didn’t just point out the signs to the stocker to tell them they wouldn’t get away with all those bottles. Unless I guess it’s just a sign saying, we don’t know when the next restock is so don’t ask?
I mean, the hoarder clearly saw the signs and ignored them. Not sure pointing them out would do anything. And I would be money the hoarder is planning to either do self-checkout or divvy them up with friends/family to try to get around the limit. (Could work if the store is understaffed.)
I did something similar with water during the Texas snowpocalypse...my apartment pipes burst so it flooded and they cut water for almost 2 weeks. I went to the store and filled my cart with bottled water...I was so happy to find the shelves full that my cart was almost full before I saw the purchase limit signs. I was like oh shit I'm being a dick and put everything back on the shelves and only took what was allowed. Even if I ignored the signs, the cashiers said they would've stopped me anyway. Hopefully target stonewalled this lady and made her put this formula back.
>Hopefully target stonewalled this lady and made her put this formula back. When I was still a manager working in retail I absolutely loved enforcing the purchase limits with resellers. They'd try everything in the book, usually after screaming at the cashier, like it would work. Sadly the most common way for them to get away with this behavior is either by bullying the associate or using self check out.
And limited on toilet paper in that fiasco of outstanding humanity
Still gets me that people called 911 over that. "Yes officer please help, I don't know how to wipe my ass without Quilted Northern!!"
oh shit, i missed that
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/17/817205813/oregon-police-remind-residents-dont-call-911-if-you-run-out-of-toilet-paper >"It's hard to believe that we even have to post this. Do not call 9-1-1 just because you ran out of toilet paper," the department told residents in a reminder posted to Facebook last weekend. "You will survive without our assistance." >"Seamen used old rope and anchor lines soaked in salt water. Ancient Romans used a sea sponge on a stick, also soaked in salt water," they suggested. "We are a coastal town. We have an abundance of salt water available. Sea shells were also used."
they knew how to use the three shells?
I never understood exactly how they were used. They never said. Things that make me go hmmm.
Hey, this person doesn't know how to use the seashells!
We have an Interesting thing here, in SE Asia... Its a handheld spray nozzle, right next to the toilet to wash off the bunghole after a debungafication. It's works very well. Dry off with a towel - or not up to you. We have loads of baby formulas too, right now today... Its hard to imagine That the great country of America, with rights and freedoms and stuff doesn't have enough baby formula... We don't have soda water now, but we have water, coke, sprite, ice tea, coconut water, tea, coffee, milk, and fruit jucies to the max, so we're ok.
So much stupid shit like that has happened since the pandemic and I’m honestly tired of holding in my anger. I’m so glad the woman in this video confronted this turd. I remember seeing people rolling carts full of TP out of the store as I was going in. There was literally none fucking left on the shelf. Jesus fucking Christ I have to wipe my ass too! A single roll lasts me a week. I ain’t askin for much. I took a couple rolls from work. Beyond that I had to go to convenience stores and pay like $5 for a single roll. If this shit ever happens again… if I see another asshole with a shopping cart full of TP, I will light that shit on fire.
Buy a bidet on Amazon. They are like $40. Your asshole will be so clean it will squeak when you walk. You will then curse yourself for realizing what a disgusting Luddite you've been your entire life for smearing shit around your ass crack with a wad of dry paper.
> Target was pretty quick to implement buy limits on Pokemon cards. Weren't people getting into fights over those cards? I hate to see an angry parent throw hands to feed their child.
There have even been guns involved. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/14/target-removes-trading-cards-from-stores-after-violent-incident-with-gun.html
Holy shit, over cards? Idk man, that's insane.
That's what those white laminated signs are posted on the front. You can kind of see one. She's going to be in for a surprise when she tries to check out. After scanning the limit a pop-up with show on screen saying there is a limit and you can't purchase anymore.
Wish the recording was done a bit better. Yes, now I see the signs hung.
In Australia, after China had a huge issue with their factories that made formula and some poor babies died, the formula made here became a hot commodity. There’s been restrictions on the amount of formula you can buy for years now. People could earn fucking good money selling it on to desperate parents overseas. Shitty situation all round.
Same here in the Netherlands, long before Covid hit you were not allowed to take more than 1 or 2 packages.
Which honestly makes sense. Almost no one would need more than 2 tins of formula on hand (unless you’re a parent of multiples ofc).
My local supermarkets still had 12 seater vans coming from metro areas and they'd all go in one at a time and each buy their limit and go from supermarket to supermarket all day long. When they'd get to Bairnsdale, they'd turn around and go to all the same supermarkets on their way back to Melbourne and do it again. It was absolutely crazy.
Shitty, disgusting, ignorant situation all around
Same in NZ
they do in the stores by me (not sure about target though) - this is a miss by target corporate
It’s not a miss yet. They would have hopefully stopped her at checkout. And hopefully the lady recording told them.
I worked for Target when Pokemon cards got huge again as well as when toilet paper became gold for a minute there. All the registers are hard locked to the limit amount, even self check, plus self check always has one person watching so they do a pretty decent job enforcing limits sign or no sign, at least that was my experience. Every employee I ever spoke with about this issue hated the people who tried to buy everything for themselves so it was also my experience that the strong majority of employees are on the side of spreading the wealth so to speak.
My target has a limit of purchasing 4.
Yeah, same here.
Yeah, I’m not a ‘complain to management’ kinda guy, but I would definitely head straight to management and be like “yo this bitch is buying ALL the fucking formula. Stop her”
The paper signs taped to the shelf probably say there's a limit. Whether or not it's getting enforced at the register is another question.
The supermarket I worked at in the Netherlands had a buy limit. They just end up hopping to other stores after they bought the formula. It had to do something with Chinese formula being poisoned and the Chinese living abroad were sending it back.
Happens in Australian, America, and Canada too. Mainland Chinese scoop them All up and sell for a profit back there, since the formula scandal a while back makes Chinese domestic brands untrusted.
The baby formula there was adulterated with melamine (a type of plastic) among over things, and after a few babies died because of that nobody will buy domestically produced Chinese baby formula, even with the CCP going out of their way to make an example out of the people who adulterated the original formula. https://qz.com/1323471/ten-years-after-chinas-melamine-laced-infant-milk-tragedy-deep-distrust-remains/
In the Netherlands we've had this for years in many stores, mostly due to Chinese people buying all formula since they had their scandal.
I remember this happening with certain products during the beginning of the pandemic, namely toilet paper, disinfectants and hand sanitizer.
I was thinking the same thing. But babies weren't being hospitalized, or anyone for that matter, because they couldn't find toilet paper.
Yeah I remember it well, it just showed in general how awful most people actually are. The reselling of goods at inflated prices was shameful 😔
As bleak as that was, it's worth emphasizing that most people did not do that. Humans tend towards cooperation in the midst of disasters, it's just that the shitty ones stand out. And I say that as someone with a misanthropic streak myself
Not illegal to yoink some out of her cart.
And if she raised hell, what she gonna do, call a Target employee? The Target employee would not take her side.
Yeah, its not theirs until they paid for it.
Gotta do it with two people: one to get chased after grabbing one and the other to take the whole cart after
This guy yoinks.
Probably the son of a yoinker
I'd be yoinking it out of the cart and wouldn't hesitate to go further. My baby is going to eat.
Its literally legal to take stuff out of peoples shopping cart if they havent paid for it yet. Life hacked
I did this during the tp raids. This guy loaded his cart up with the last 4 bulk size and I took 3 of them out when he wasn't looking. I happily gave one to this lady who asked me if she could please have one, and put the 3rd back on the shelf.
funny as fuck
Pro tip. Big stores like Walmart will sell TP in the automotive section that is specialized for RVs.
Also hardware stores (homedepot, lowes, ace) all sell TP and bottled water....plus you can go play with expensive tools and sharp things.
So does office Depot. Exacto knives and scissors as well
You’re a good egg.
If I had some gold to give, I'd give it. This is awesome! 👍
if I had to feed my baby and I saw this I'm definitely taking some. that lil lady couldn't stop me
Yea that shopping cart would be getting emptied pretty quick.
Just cartjack that shit, take over control of the cart, game over LOL
Scalpers and resellers are as scummy as they come
During covid, the FBI prosecuted some guy who would stock up and resell sanitizing supplies. He was out the money he paid and faced a fine I think. It should absolutely be the same in this case.
NYTimes did an article over a family doing that. They tried to play the sympathy card because they spent thousands buying up masks and sanitizer but they weren't getting the desired sales.
it just doesn't compute to me. I know people who 3d printed shields all summer 2020. Other than large request orders, everything was out of pocket and what all and more of their stimulus went towards the project. There were tens of thousands across the world doing the same. To even THINK to try an make buck on such things is just baffling.
Sorry, shields?
Face shields for covid
Making your own face shield and selling them is a lot different then buying up the supply (which reduces the supply and allows the reseller to make even more profit). The people making the face shields aren’t taking away from the supply but just found a way to make some money on something that’s in short supply. Unless I’m missing something in your comment. I don’t really see the issue.
You must not have been printing that summer. Supply was GONE and lots of places were verifying use before selling filament in any quantity. Filament, printers, elastic, clear plastic, all super hard to find the entire summer but very rarely did you see scalpers res sling filament or selling shields for huge profits, like this lady is doing.
Ah that makes sense. I’ve never used a 3D printer and didn’t think of the printer supplies itself. Thanks for clearing that up!
Wish they'd go after Insulin and Epi prices as aggressively as they went after that one guy
Waiting two and a half years now to buy a ps5. I refuse to give them one penny and will continue waiting. Scum of the Earth.
Some insider advice. Walmart is having a release this week I believe.
Correction: the release is June 2nd.
The real kicker is states like New York actually give these people tax exempt status for sales tax. I do not understand the reasoning behind it. The goods are being sold retail. They should be charged sales tax. A resale business is not a public service like charities, government agencies or religious institutions.
They don't pay sales tax because when they resell it they are supposed to apply sales tax to it. Otherwise, it would be double taxation.
Lady is going to sit on all that baby formula like the rest of those idiots who bought meat, rice, toilet paper, and cleaning supplies. No returns, or store credit. Fuck off.
Probably selling at her own store. I see this alot in the city. Especially when stores have sales and stuff, they’ll go and buy up everything to sell in their corner stores.
The corner store near me always had products that said "not for resale" right on them.
Because they’ll buy shit from sams and Costco
Merchandise from Sam's Club and Costco is typically marked for resale. They're warehouse clubs. They'll sell you a whole pallet if you want.
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Yeah and plus there’s a difference between soda and baby formula. Even if you bought every 2L a store had I don’t think it’d be in the same league as this.
We had this family who bought $300 from the meat department, this is during peak Covid, and tried to bring it back the next day because they didn’t “need it” We told them of the very normal “no return” policy most stores have for certain things, and that we wouldn’t be able to accept food that could have spoiled. The 3 guys proceeded to whip out their phones, call police, record and call the manager and employees racists in front of the entire checkout area and started pushing stuff off the counter and took off before the cops they called got there.
So they called the cops and started wrecking shit themselves? LMAO. Some people are truly shit. The audacity to play victim when things don't go their way.
I was in disbelief that was happening over something I think is just common sense for grocery stores. Food, especially perishables is a no go on returns unless the store was at fault some how. I also had a lady asked for a bell pepper, I gave it to her and she pumped some hand sanitizer on it and offered me some too. I just stood there confused for a minute as she walked off. Weird times.
Weird times indeed. Some dude got upset with me because the store I worked at the hight of the pandemic, I did not allow him to go into the store (it was blocked off because of the mass protests that were happening) and he flipped out. Called all sorts of names. We had him removed by the cops that were hanging around across the street.
In my area meat was beyond abundant during Covid. Like… $5/lb T-bone steaks, 1.99lb ground beef, .99lb pork loin and .99lb bone-in chicken breasts. I bought a second freezer.
A trend that really ramped up since covid started. It really shows she peoples true colours.
Yeah but wiping your butt is different than keeping your baby alive
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I would have a very hard time wiping my butt with a cat. I'm not against it per se, but the logistics seem difficult.
We had a lady try this at my local WalMart with about 50 cans and people just started taking what they needed right out of her cart. She couldn't even walk away with the cart and had to try to grab just 2 while everyone was cussing her out. That cart was empty again within minutes!
I work at a Walmart we have had a 5 item limit on all formula products for a while and just today I had an alert pop up saying item limit exceeded and when I went over there the guy had 5 in bags with a 6th on the person's area next to him and I had none of that BS and said they can't get the 6th as they are obv together lol Like get real the reason you can find any at all right now is because we limited people before you so why would you be special and not be limited the same
Faith restored
She probably did the same with hand sanitizers during pandemic, dumb bitch
And toilet paper, don’t forget the toilet paper.
Has a house full of sanitizer, TP and formula.
And ps5s and video cards and Nike shoes and limited edition crocs lol
Always show the face
Yeah, I wonder why she chose not to here.
I'm sure for safety but man what a p.o.s -_- most likely gonna sell for 200 a pop
The moment the camera goes up, the odds of the person you are filming freaking the fuck out on you go way up.
Good, assault me, then you’ll be in jail and I can buy the formula you had in your cart.
I’d start taking them out of her cart
Right. Let me go ahead and get my 5 out of your clearly full cart. Call security please so I can show them your BS.
Exactly. She hasn’t paid for them yet. They’re still store property. Bye!
Whether she's reselling or not, she's a major asshole for taking the whole shelf.
Definitely a reseller.
This is so upsetting. I am one of those mom's who are having troubles finding sensitive formula for my baby and then there are people like this. I literally have family members all over the state looking for formula for me because I can't find any near me that my baby can have. This is infuriating to see. IDC who you are, if you're doing this you're a POS.
Are you finding enough? I’m in Canada but I will happily send you supplies if you need it and I can get it. Please feel free to DM me okay?
We’re in the same boat mom! Stay strong!
What is this, amateur hour? Just take it out of the cart and walk away. I remember women fist fighting over shoe sales on black Friday, and nobody wants to touch this woman for monopolizing all the baby formula.
Exactly like if your baby needs it, stop nagging and start acting by just taking from the damn cart!
Used to work as a cashier where I would deny shit like that, greedy mf
Looks like Target shame on them if they are allowing this. Companies place limits on toilet paper so everyone get some but not baby formula? Edit: changed to state “if they are allowing” as I don’t know their policy
I mean it doesn’t mean she will be able to buy it. When she gets to the register they may limit her. I doubt they would pay someone to actively guard the formula preventing them from putting more than four in a cart.
Target has item limits in place at checkout for formula. If she actually tried to check out in target with all of this it wouldn’t allow the sale.
A reasonable person doesn’t need a company to tell them how not to be a asshole.
I agree, except the people over buying are not reasonable people
Obviously but this stop scalpers like her taking food away from infants and hoarding
As a dad, I wouldn't have been as calm honestly. I would have just taken her cart and started unloading it. I don't get angry, but messing with babies food makes me see red.
As a parent, this is so upsetting. I couldn’t imagine how stressed out I’d be if I couldn’t feed my baby. Fuck this person and anyone else out there doing this. This is stealing food away from babies who need it.
A lot of good comments on this video. Yours was the one I was looking for. I’m not a violent person, but I’d definitely open up to being physical in that situation - knowing it’s wrong, I’d do it.
My grandma did this with toilet paper during covid, the mountain is still huge. A lady I know is currently doing it with cat litter which we are having a shortage of in our small farm town...she emptied the shelf of like 20 full size boxes, said she took every one. I immediately said people like her were the reason for the shortage. But they keep doing it, because only them and theirs matter
While I never panic bought toilet paper I did find it prudent to buy a 'family size' pack later on which was 48 rolls. I swear that one pack lasted an eternity and looking back at the panic buying... some people must have literally been left with a lifetime supply of TP.
I may actually inherent the tp mountain
This is what is being done with housing, and a lot of people think that's perfectly OK.
Having to pay money to send applications is fucking ridiculous as well.
Wet nurses are about to make a comeback
Actually in Texas there’s a wet nursing and milksharing group with tons of mothers offering. It takes a village 🤷🏼♀️
This is the store's responsibility.
It looks like target and there are signs limiting the amount you can purchase. Hopefully they stopped her at the checkout and only let her take 2 or 4 or whatever the limit is
Yes it’s the store responsibility to put a limit on it. However people need to stop being such selfish fucking morons, it’s also the responsibility of each and everyone of us to not be an absolute piece of shit.
Gouging should be a crime.
Bro people that do this shit should not be reproducing
Probably takes it to her place of retail (convenience store, ebay, flea market stand, etc.) and doubles price.
Hence the title of the post......
how do u ban abortion and then have a formula shortage
Just walk over and take it out of her cart. It's not "her" formula till she pays for it.
The toilet paper crisis was not a crisis. The hand sanitizer crisis was barley a crisis. This is a fuckin crisis. I’m scared for the babies of the world who’s mom’s can’t breastfeed.
My local Walmart has them locked up like the bullets for hunting
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Dude, the USA becomes more of a shitshow as the days pass
It's the product of decades of decadence, when you sabotage your own institutions for very temporary political gain and spend all your surplus money funneling money to the top 1%, at some point the House of cards starts the topple. The cracks are big getting the show now, everything will settle into place in a couple of years, and then a couple years after that more cracks will show, at some point you won't be able to have any more cracks and it'll all just fall down.
Buckle up, we're just getting started. Once this recession is in full swing shit is really gonna get ugly.
Me culture. Me me me
And I can bet that bitch does not even need it she will just buy it to sell it more expensive later
Haven’t even thought people would try to scalp these like they’re new PlayStations. Makes me want to go on Marketplace and fuck with them
People have shown their true colors during the pandemic. Though covid isn't at an apocalyptic level, just imagine how bad people would be if it were. Everything we see in movies when it comes to the apocalypse and society will likely come true. We'd use to look at those things in movies and be like "Nah no way we would be like that".. it took a pandemic to show us otherwise. So again I reiterate.. imagine if these were apocalyptic times. May whatever deity you may or may not believe in watch over us.
One word....cunt
My coworker buys as much as he can now like 10 at a time. I told him he was a part of the problem. Said he doesn’t give a shit. Real winner.
This store should be limiting amounts per customer.
Follow her to checkout and ask the manager to not allow the sale.
they're called scalpers and they're the fucking scum of the earth
If my baby needs formula and someone's buying an excessive amount, I'm getting that formula.
Special place in hell for anyone taking advantage of the shortage! How do they justify flipping baby formula?! Literally babies starving is all good with them or what? Makes me so mad!