I don't know who else might be having this problem, but here in Australia, parents are outraged by Asian shoppers who are stockpiling baby formula which they will then sell, for greatly inflated prices, to parents in their home countries. This is leaving Aussie parents with nothing to give their babies and toddlers.

A similar case has happened in Belium, although on a totally different product.

Some website owner has massed up stocks of Westvleteren Trappist ale and sold them for over five times the retail price for the sales at the abbey. As the monks insist that the beer is brewed not to make huge profits, but to provide for the abbey's needs (renovation...) and charitable works, there has been a lot of moral damages.
But how do you calculate the legal compensation for these schemes?

I heard about this - it started when there was the tainted baby formula in China, so people started going to Australia to buy up formula to make sure they didn't run the risk of buying tainted stuff.

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2008/10/09/the-story-behind-chinas-tainted-milk-scandal

Despite most chemists and supermarkets having a limit on how many tins customers can purchase, it's not stopping these people from stripping the shelves bare. Unfortunately it's perfectly legal for them to go into a shop, purchase two or three tins of formula then go back in and buy more. One local chemist recently got into trouble for allowing Asian shoppers in before the store's usual opening time. These shoppers were filmed walking out with large boxes of formula.

It's been happening for many years here in HK. The original reason for the buying up of stock of Baby milk powder was that the mainland companies were substituting Melamine , and many babies died.

If it's been going on for some time, I'm surprised that enterprizing Aussie formula manufacturers haven't stepped up production to meet the demands of the market.

I find it hard to fault people who are trying to prevent the death of their babies.

There is an article in the HK paper today asking why many Students here don't want to learn Mandarin. The answer mostly given is that they do not want to be associated with a country that kills babies by selling melamine powder as baby formula, and with some other atrocities which we he hear of daily from accounts of the mainland, such as dog eating etc.They see themselves as slightly less barbarian.

Agony - agreed on both accounts.

Ren - Very interesting! I keep also remembering a photo of that escalator that broke, killing a man, and another escalator broke around the same time - made me not want to go there!

I know and there are only 8 million of us!