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Crime has retailers locking down products from baby formula to underwear causing frustration to shoppers

Underwear-lockdown

Important Takeaways:

  • Frustrated shoppers are forced to wait as long as 40 MINUTES to get their hands on basic groceries like toothpaste, baby formula and vitamins at Walmart and Target as retailers lock up products to combat soaring crime
  • Shoppers are being forced to wait as long as 40 minutes to buy basic essentials like baby formula and body wash as major retailers lock up products to counter skyrocketing rates of theft.
  • Reporters from Inside Edition visited five Targets, five Walmarts and five CVS stores in New York and New Jersey and timed how long it took for employees to retrieve different products from glass casings.
  • ‘Everything’s locked up,’ journalist Lisa Guerrero said as she stepped inside a Target in Manhattan where baby formulas, razors and cleaning products were kept under lock and key.
  • ‘They locked up the underwear,’ she quipped. ‘And the socks.’
  • In May, Target CEO Brian Cornell admitted that theft was costing the chain millions.
  • The company predicted $500million more in losses from theft this year on top of the $750 million in losses it incurred during its last fiscal year – meaning losses could top $1.2billion by the end of 2023.

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Baby Formula crisis continues as last shipment was in September forcing parents to become desperate in their search

Revelations 18:23:’For the merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.’

Important Takeaways:

  • Baby formula shortage getting worse despite White House intervention
  • Biden admin is quiet after formula brand Enfamil announced shortages will last until Spring
  • One parent from Keystone, Florida, said it’s been “crazy” – especially for parents in need of a popular hypoallergenic and lactose-free formula.
  • In response to the shortage, the Biden administration launched “Operation Fly Formula” intended to boost supply. However, the last transport occurred in September.
  • FindMyBabyFormula.com has seen a massive spike in enrollment with more than 7,000 new members in the past few weeks. They also pointed out that more than 60% of requests are for Nutramagen.

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U.S. Stores report shortage of baby formula as Biden announces 17th Operation Fly Formula

Revelations 18:23 ’For the merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.’

Important Takeaways:

  • Families despair as America’s baby formula shortage again gets WORSE: Biden announces his 17th international delivery as out-of-stock numbers rise to highest level this year
  • Biden administration announces 17th Operation Fly Formula Mission
  • But U.S. stores still struggling to stock baby formula
  • Formula availability dropped to its lowest level so far this year, with about 30% of products out of stock for the week ended July 3
  • By July 24, Operation Fly Formula will have transported more than 61 million 8-ounce bottle equivalents to the U.S., the administration noted
  • But that isn’t close to being enough as U.S. consumers usually buy enough powdered formula to make about 65 million 8-ounce bottles a week

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Israeli based company hopes to fill the void on Baby Formula. Waiting on FDA

Rev 6:6 NAS “And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.”

Important Takeaways:

  • ISRAELI FIRM COMMITS TO SHIPPING 200,000 CANS OF BABY FORMULA TO US TO HELP SOLVE CRISIS
  • An Israeli-based company hopes to fill the void
  • Three weeks ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued emergency guidance enabling the import of infant formulas produced abroad.
  • Tel Aviv-based MyOr—an Israeli health-tech company—is among companies seeking FDA approval as its Mexican subsidiary, AlphaCare, produces and markets MyOr formulas from a plant in north-central Mexico.
  • “We have 200,000 cans of formula ready to be shipped right now, with a capacity to produce another 250,000 a month,” said MyOr co-founder and chief technology officer Michael Brandwein.
  • Founded in 2018, MyOr provides preventive health-care solutions for infants at-risk with a specific focus on food allergies and nutritional sufficiency.

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A double edge sword: High gas prices have parents wasting money driving to find formula

Rev 6:6 NAS “And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.”

Important Takeaways:

  • New Bern mothers search for relief as baby formula shortage worsens
  • It started with a voluntary recall from Abbott Nutrition, the largest infant formula manufacturer in the country, involving three types of infant formula in February. Four babies became sick with bacterial infections after consuming the products. Two of the infants died in late 2021 and early 2022, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
  • Two months later, stores across the country began reporting shortages and outages of baby formula.
  • Because of supply chain shortages, consumers were already seeing a limited supply of baby formula products on the shelves. Nearly 40% of popular baby formula brands were sold out at retailers across the country at the end of April, according to USA Today – worsening a 31% shortage two weeks prior to the recall.
  • As the supply of baby formula continues to worsen, mothers in New Bern say they are searching far and wide to ensure they can properly feed their children. So much so that some mothers are asking others if they are selling their breast milk.
  • Coupled with the high gas prices, Carter said it’s like a double-edged sword where you can’t find basic things for your child while wasting gas money looking for necessities.

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The shortage of formula now has some children hospitalized and needing nutritional support

Rev 6:6 NAS “And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.”

Important Takeaways:

  • Are you even looking Joe? Two young children in Memphis are hospitalized after needing IV fluids and nutritional support due to baby formula shortage
  • Pediatric Gastroenterologist Mark Corkins, 60, treated two Memphis children at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital after their parents couldn’t find formula
  • The children, who were not identified, were ‘not adapting well to the new formula type’ and needed IVs and nutritional support
  • ‘These are young children who have health conditions and special medical needs that [require] specific dietary requirements,’ Corkins said
  • Children are needing to be hospitalized as parents continue to struggle to find formula on US shelves after Abbott Laboratories recalled products in February
  • Many kids are having a hard time adjusting to generic and parents are seething at the slow turnaround as international products gets caught up at the border

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Formula shortage has parents searching hours to find just one can

Rev 6:6 NAS “And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.”

Important Takeaways:

  • ‘It’s pure panic’: Florida parents of twins spent more than 4 hours driving to find baby formula
  • When Erik and Kelly Schmidt, both 35, went into a Central Florida Target store this week to buy their usual baby formula, Up & Up Gentle, for their five-month-old twins, they found an empty shelf.
  • “We spent over four hours going to every Target, different Walmarts, different grocery stores, just finding absolutely nothing,” Erik Schmidt said.
  • Formula is considered the only safe alternative to breast milk, and making your own is not an option. President Joe Biden on Friday promised steps to address the shortage, saying there was “nothing more urgent we’re working on.”
  • Over the weekend, Erik told MarketWatch that he and and Kelly had secured baby-formula supply online. They urge parents who are willing to help to donate their extras to local church or other organizations.

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Restart of Michigan plant that makes baby formula could take up to 10 weeks to get to you

Rev 6:6 NAS “And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.”

Important Takeaways:

  • Baby formula maker: It could take up to 10 weeks to get product back in stores from affected facility
  • The owner of a key baby formula manufacturing plant said Wednesday it is looking to restart its plant in as little as two weeks — but said it would take between six to eight weeks to get formula products back on store shelves once production gets going again.
  • The shutdown of the facility, owned by Abbott Laboratories and located in Sturgis, Michigan, has prompted a severe shortage of infant formulas including Similac, Alimentum and EleCare.

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Shortage on baby formula nationwide

Rev 6:6 NAS “And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.”

Important Takeaways:

  • The nationwide baby formula shortage is getting worse
    • At retailers across the U.S., 40% of the top-selling baby formula products were out of stock as of the week ending April 24, a new analysis from Datasembly, which tracked baby formula stock at more than 11,000 stores, shows.
    • National out-of-stock levels jumped nine percentage points, from 31% to 40% between April 3 and April 24. That’s up sharply from 11% in November.
    • A spokesperson for Walgreens told CBS MoneyWatch it is limiting customers to three infant and toddler formula products per transaction, citing “increased demand and various supplier issues.”

 

Supply Chain problems are affecting Baby Formula suppliers

Rev 6:6 NAS And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.”

Important Takeaways:

  • Supply chain crisis: ‘Shocking’ national baby formula shortage forces rationing at major retail chain
  • The supply chain crisis has prompted Walgreens – the second-largest pharmacy store chain in the United States behind CVS – to limit the amount of baby formula that customers can purchase.
  • The reason for rationing is because of “increased demand and various supplier issues.” The restrictions are already in effect at stores.
  • CVS is also experiencing baby formula shortages.

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