"Coles is committed to ensuring that our customers with a genuine need for infant formula have access to this product," Coles said in a statement. "To make sure we have formula available for customers, in some stores we are keeping infant formula behind the service desk or using specially designed electronic article surveillance lids that can only be removed at the register." Woolworths said it had no plans to remove the product from shelves but has also tightened restrictions to two units per customer. In 2015 an Australian company apologised to mothers after its premium organic baby milk formula was wiped off supermarket shelves ahead of China's Singles Day. "The Chinese consumer is very comfortable about buying Australian produce if it is coming from (Australian) supermarkets, they tend to look at the produce as a famous brand."

Source: Bangkok Post May 16, 2018 04:52 UTC