https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/30435548/woolworths-accused-of-un-australian-discrim...

Woolworths has been accused of racism after it gave differing limits of baby formula to its English and Chinese speaking customers.

A number of customers have noticed the side-by-side notices in Woolies stores across Australia with the English language sign saying customers can buy four tins, while the Mandarin sign limits it at two units.

"Due to supply issues, sales quantities are limited to four units per customers for Infant Formula. We are working hard to be back in full supply as soon as possible," read the tickets photographed in stores and posted on the Woolworths Facebook page.

The adjacent Mandarin sign reads only two per customer.

Outraged customers said it was "un-Australian" and shameful.

Woolworths responded to a number of complaints on its Facebook page, saying it would pass on feedback to store managers.

"We will pass this feedback on to our Store Manager so they are aware and can take action," the supermarket wrote on Facebook.

Local dairy factory is slavering at the chops over the FTA and the chance to sell endless supplies of cheese and milk products to China.  That on top of their CEO being convicted of paedophilia and copping seven years.... pillars of the community all......

Not sure that Australian babies would be running short.... but it is only a matter of time before there are adequate supplies to China.

Maybe kids would be better off feeding natural foods.... such as mother's milk in Parliament.... or wherever.... my kids benefited from it, and I seriously think a natural and unprocessed diet is the best in the long term.

Must be my inner hippy....

there is NO SHORTAGE IN CHINA macca..

the manufacturer of baby formulas tried to kill them by adulterating the baby powder.... so the Chinese mums are afraid to by their own product......

I would be too..

however this isnt the way to fix it because its black market and only the rich would be able to afford it..

I do not think woollies could careless who bought their goods on their shelves..

they are just trying to do the right thing...by us... and helping stop the BLACKMARKET...

when Aussie mums go to buy the product but the shelf is empty... that is not the right way.....

so tough luck to those who think its unjust..

come up with a better solution....

I am sure the shops will go for it..

I assume the 'one child policy' becoming a 'two child policy' is going to have an impact.

cods wrote on Dec 28^th, 2015 at 6:37am:


That's why there is a shortage

freediver wrote on Dec 28^th, 2015 at 7:26am:


There was a scandal some years ago about exactly that kind of misleading statement from vendors....

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/nestles-infant-formula-scandal-2012-6#the-baby...

New York City’s campaign against infant formula inspired us to look into the dubious history of this product.Outrage started in the 1970s, when Nestle was accused of getting third world mothers hooked on formula, which is less healthy and more expensive than breast milk.

The allegations led to hearings in the Senate and the World Health organisation, resulting in a new set of marketing rules.

Yet infant formula remains a $11.5-billion-and-growing market.

'The Baby Killer' blew the lid off the formula industry in 1974.




Social rights groups began dragging the industry's exploitative practices into the spotlight in the early 1970s.

The New Internationalist published an exposé on Nestlé's marketing practices in 1973, 'Babies Mean Business,' which described how the company got Third World mothers hooked on baby formula.

But it was 'The Baby Killer,' a booklet published by London's War On Want organisation in 1974, that really blew the lid off the baby formula industry.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott

A boycott was launched in the United States on July 7, 1977, against the Swiss-based Nestlé corporation. It spread in the United States, and expanded into Europe in the early 1980s. It was prompted by concern about Nestlé's "aggressive marketing" of breast milk substitutes, particularly in less economically developed countries (LEDCs), largely among the poor. The boycott has been canceled and renewed based upon scrutiny of the business practices of Nestlé and other substitute manufacturers monitored by the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN). Organizers of the boycott encourage the practice of newborn nutrition via natural breast milk and claim that use of the substitutes represent a health risk for infants. As of 2013, the Nestlé boycott is coordinated by the International Nestlé Boycott Committee, the secretariat for which is the UK group Baby Milk Action.

Now where is Longmania to tell me that 'google' is not research...... just provides historical links, neh?  Guess some of us have to do the work while others sit back and snipe, eh?

freediver wrote on Dec 28^th, 2015 at 8:00am:



If I was the shop owner I'D SELL IT TO THEM BY THE PALLET.

Tell me how they get all this baby formula out of the country once they have collected as much as they do?

It can't be taken out in personal luggage.

Sounds nearly like it would have to be a smuggling/drug type operation to get that bulk overseas.