[mothered]

I take issue with some of the more essential products, like baby formula. People reselling food for babies is a bit extreme

Absolutely agree.

My best friend at work, Is struggling to find baby formula for her grandchild. Every supermarket she's been to, Is out of stock. It's basically putting the baby's health at risk- all due to the selfishness of consumers bulk buying, without any consideration for those In need.

[Jiggly]

I take issue with some of the more essential products, like baby formula. People reselling food for babies is a bit extreme

Absolutely agree.

My best friend at work, Is struggling to find baby formula for her grandchild. Every supermarket she's been to, Is out of stock. It's basically putting the baby's health at risk- all due to the selfishness of consumers bulk buying, without any consideration for those In need.

Your comments mirror my feelings exactly. I wish the stores had been able to restrict purchases sooner.

[mothered]

I wish the stores had been able to restrict purchases sooner.

Coincidentally, we had a conversation about this at work on Thursday.

The moment stores detected behavior consistent with bulk buying, restrictions should've been put In place there and then.

[calmsenile]

Take a look:
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5496733
https://mobile.twitter.com/dougquan/stat...5272299522

Is this messed up or what?
I'm a little disappointed that this behaviour is coming from Canada though :/
I'll give it to them for being ballsy and bragging about their 'exploits' with their real names attached for the world to see.

I don't see any problem with it. It's the buyer's fault, They can simply look up "How to make hand sanitizer." and be done with it. As I said before it's just idiocy being capitalized o. Just on a much bigger scale.
Point is if you can't be fucked to do a google search, you deserve it.

Yes and no, the elderly who dont have family or friends to rely on would be very limited when it comes to online purchasing and googling.

[newdrip16]

Take a look:
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5496733
https://mobile.twitter.com/dougquan/stat...5272299522

Is this messed up or what?
I'm a little disappointed that this behaviour is coming from Canada though :/
I'll give it to them for being ballsy and bragging about their 'exploits' with their real names attached for the world to see.

I don't see any problem with it. It's the buyer's fault, They can simply look up "How to make hand sanitizer." and be done with it. As I said before it's just idiocy being capitalized o. Just on a much bigger scale.
Point is if you can't be fucked to do a google search, you deserve it.

Yes and no, the elderly who dont have family or friends to rely on would be very limited when it comes to online purchasing and googling.

Even then if they were self-reliant enough to live by themselves then they should be able to seek information by themselves. If they had a caretaker then it'd be the caretaker's job as they aren't able to take precautions by themself.

[Drako]

You know what people like them are? Dickheads. I'm not sure if it's illegal for citizens to scalp prices, but I know it's illegal for businesses to hike their prices in times of crisis. And laws aside, it's completely idiotic to purchase supplies in build during a time like this. You're hurting other people who actually need things. You shouldn't try to profit off of a pandemic.

[sybylroot]

Here where i live people is going fucking nutss and really crazy with prices, also stores are reselling in mass to those people, i mean what the hell is going on those people heads?, but nobody seems to care (politicians only talking bullshit night & day), that is more painful than the pandemic itself...

[Defeat]

Here where i live people is going fucking nutss and really crazy with prices, also stores are reselling in mass to those people, i mean what the hell is going on those people heads?, but nobody seems to care (politicians only talking bullshit night & day), that is more painful than the pandemic itself...

How are things now? That sounds pretty intense.