Recently, an angry mother in Sydney revealed on Facebook that she had finally learned why she couldn't buy baby milk in the supermarket
All these milk powder have been bought by organized purchasing agents, "gangs".
Why is it "organized"?
The mother of the two, Belinda (alias), said she and her mother saw such a scene on Sunday night at a Coles in Broadway, downtown Sydney:
There are always people shuttling around the shelves of baby milk in supermarkets, all Asian faces.
Each of them went straight to the milk powder shelf, took four cans of milk powder and left.
After a while another person will come and do the same thing.
Belinda suddenly realized that they were a "gang".
Each of them has the same mission-buying as much milk powder as possible.
It is in this way that all the milk powder that Australian babies need on a daily basis is emptied.
This is why Belinda always comes to the supermarket to buy milk powder for children when the shelves are always empty.
Her mother was angry and said they should go forward and stop these people because it was too much.
Belinda stopped her, saying they were too many for you to control.
"it's no exaggeration to say that I saw at least 20 people in the supermarket that night, who didn't buy anything else, just to buy baby milk."
She suddenly understood why the phenomenon went on and on. It was not a shop assistant's inaction, but an inability to control it.
Later, Belinda informed the clerk of what he had seen, and the clerk said he was happy to maintain order. But because it had been so many times before, every time I went forward to stop it, I felt very tired.
Sometimes they even argue with unruly customers that sometimes they have to hire security to maintain order.
Security guards at the store told the Belinda, they often saw some people come to buy milk powder every day, and over time they had been remembered by the staff, and the next time they came back, someone would confiscate the milk powder in their basket directly at the checkout.
"some people will be at the door from 6: 00 a. M. before the door opens, they come every day, then go back and change, and buy it again around 8: 00."
Two years ago, when the "milk shortage" broke out, Coles and Woolworths introduced a limit of four cans of infant milk powder per person-
At a time when supplies were extremely scarce, Coles's infant milk powder was once restricted to 2 cans per person.
Woolworths initially limited to 8 cans per person, but later had to adjust to four cans per person because of the purchasing power of purchasing agents.
Due to the well-known Sanlu milk powder incident, Chinese mothers to the better quality of Australian milk particularly trusted.
The report showed that the Australian government was aware of the long-standing milk shortage in Australia, but said they could not intervene unless more than 10 kilograms of milk powder were mailed out of the country at one time.
So, despite the two-year-old restrictions, the situation has not changed, and local mothers are still struggling to buy the milk powder their babies need.
A few days ago, Belinda got a lot of mom's response after he put what he saw and heard on Facebook.
Some mothers said that their children can only eat a certain brand of milk powder, change the brand will not eat.
Even babies are weaned before their mother finds the brand he's used to, so mothers often do everything they can to find milk powder for their children.
Belinda himself had a similar experience-
Her first son had to eat special Allerpro milk powder because he was allergic to milk protein.
But this kind of milk powder is very popular in the Asian market.
Fortunately, she later found the milk powder in a small pharmacy, and then began to pick it up steadily from the drugstore for a long time before the baby was weaned.
She believes that the purchasing agent may be working for a larger export "gang" of milk powder and then shipping it abroad in large quantities to make high profits.
She believes that:
"these people have figured out when supermarket workers turn over and when they ship milk powder, so the restrictions are not going to have a real effect," he said.
"the best way is to get them to show their ID, at the counter before they buy milk powder in order to get the effect of a limited purchase," he said.