'He went crazy': Car-load of baby formula sparks heated confrontation
Australia’s baby formula fiasco has turned even uglier after a pedestrian confronted a couple unloading dozens of tins from their car in Sydney’s south.
Filmed outside the Koala Kingdom Porter storefront in Hurstville, the couple can be seen emptying the contents of their boot into a trolley – but things get heated when a man named Anthony starts to film them.
“I know what it feels like going to the shop and you go there, and there’s no baby formula on the shelves,” Anthony told 2GB’s Ben Fordham.
“I just started filming him… and then he just went off, he went crazy.”
Visibly agitated, the man approaches Anthony and tells him not to move while he calls the police.
Still filming, Anthony replies – instructing the man not to touch him as they come face-to-face.
After attempting to leave, Anthony said the couple stood in front of his car and only moved when he held down his horn and caused a scene.
‘Even school girls lining up’: Formula saga worsening
The incident is the latest in a string of baby formula confrontations that have caused outrage around the country.
Just last week, chaotic scenes unfolded in the same suburb at a nearby Coles supermarket. Footage uploaded to Facebook shows a long line snaking between aisles as customers strip the shelves just minutes after they were restocked.
Shopper Corey Zammit, who filmed the incident, told Yahoo7 News parents and even schoolchildren were among those jostling for position in the queue.
“There were even school girls lining up to get their parents the two tins obviously trying any means to take advantage of (the limit),” he said.
Bulk buying baby formula has been a delicate issue in Australia for more than two years – an issue that was further fuelled by Woolworths trialling an eight tin policy before backtracking months later.
While Coles and Woolworths have previously said all stores adhere to a strict two tin per customer quota, frustration has grown across the nation with many parents claiming they’ve been left high and dry when trying to buy formula.
Shoppers referred to as ‘daigou’ have been regularly filmed raiding Australian supermarkets, often before the tins even hit the shelves.
They send the tins to China to cash in on that country’s seemingly insatiable demand for premium instant formula.
