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Nationwide Baby Formula Shortage Hits ‘Shocking’ Levels, Sparking Panic Among Parents
Epoch Times ^ | 5-6-22 | Jack Phillips

Posted on 05/06/2022 2:22:06 PM PDT by dynachrome

A nationwide shortage in baby formula is worsening, according to a new analysis, as parents have expressed alarm over the worrying trend.

At retail locations across the United States, about 40 percent of the top-selling infant formula products were not in stock for the week ending April 24, said Datasembly. The company said that it tracked baby formula stock at more than 11,000 stores nationwide.

“This is a shocking number that you don’t see for other categories,” Ben Reich, CEO of Datasembly, told CBS News. “We’ve been tracking it over time and it’s going up dramatically. We see this category is being affected by economic conditions more dramatically than others,” Reich added.

Previously, drugstore chains like Walgreens and CVS have announced they would limit how many baby formula products each shopper can purchase at a given time.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: babyformula; shortage
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To: LibertyWoman

Geee...whatever did women do before the advent of formula?


Babies died.

No one around who is nursing who has enough milk for the extra starving baby?

Dead.


61 posted on 05/07/2022 4:02:41 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: Chickensoup

Well I’d sure like to see the stats on that. It’s a wonder that human beings have made it huh?


62 posted on 05/07/2022 5:44:21 AM PDT by LibertyWoman (America, the Handwriting is on the Wall. )
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To: LibertyWoman

The 50% infant death rates were for several different reasons and malnutrition was a large factor.

The human race persevered because of high reproductive rates.


63 posted on 05/07/2022 5:52:47 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: Hypo2

Trucking issues


64 posted on 05/07/2022 5:56:57 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: Chickensoup
So let me get this straight -- we have the lowest fertility/birth rates in American history, and there's a shortage of baby formula?

Color me skeptical. Something else is going on here. People had better damn well learn to be self-sufficient, figure out alternative sourcing methods, and stop depending on big corporate product supply chains to feed their kids.
65 posted on 05/07/2022 12:40:52 PM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Antoninus

we have a shortage caused by a supply chain issue.

Just like items in the building trades.

Haven’t you noticed that our leftist overlords have turned the best supplied country in the world and are limiting everything.


66 posted on 05/07/2022 12:43:23 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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