• Marxism-Fennekinism
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    1041 year ago

    They literally lock up the baby formula in a cage at my local grocery stores now. You know, so criminal scum with starving babies don’t pillage them.

    If that doesn’t signal imminent collapse I don’t know what does.

    • @[email protected]
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      501 year ago

      There’s a drug store chain near me that has a sign, if you need formula and can’t afford it, they’ll let you have their brand generic formulas for free. You just bring it up to the desk, let them know and they’ll scan it and give it to you.

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          221 year ago

          I didn’t wanna say cause I can’t remember if I’m right, but it’s in Toronto so likely not something in the states.

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            81 year ago

            GTA has a shortage of generic brand formula anyways, so good luck trying to find that on the shelf

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              1 year ago

              Thankfully my kid is past formula age. Unfortunately he was on formula during that pandemic shortage shit show

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                71 year ago

                We got lucky that my wife happened to be SAH and able to breastfeed. We know people who had issues breastfeeding and were really stressed about finding and paying for formula.

    • StrikerOP
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      411 year ago

      That isn’t a sign of collapse. That just shows that the average retailer would let a baby starve than lose a dime. Its a reflection of the morality that these people have. But of course they never examine themselves deep enough to have that realisation.

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      141 year ago

      The devil’s advocate in me says that dealers often cut drugs with formula so there’s at least one other reason to keep it locked, but I don’t know how well that statement holds up under scrutiny, because it’s not like they check to see if you actually have a baby when you buy formula, and it’s probably not worth the risk to steal it as opposed to just buying it with the kind of return you’d get from diluting your product.

      And yeah, I see razor blades, shampoo, and fucking laundry soap under lock and key in stores all the time. Nobody’s cutting drugs with any of those. Shit’s getting real fucked up.

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          51 year ago

          It’s not an either-or situation. Something like baby formula is only added as a filter. Fentanyl is far too potent to use as a filler. It’s added to other drugs to give a better high so users are less likely to realize they’re not getting what they paid for.