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  • 2022-05-16 (xsd:date)
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  • Can US Parents Order Baby Formula From Amazon Canada? (en)
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  • In May 2022, as a baby formula shortage left many parents worried about obtaining enough food for their infants, a message went viral on social media that offered a simple solution: Just change your location settings, the message claimed, and buy as much baby formula as you need from Amazon Canada: One popular version of this claim on Twitter, read: TO ALL THE MOMS THAT CANT FIND BABY FORMULA....go to amazon...go to the bottom...change from US to Canada. You can get all the formula you need. They are not having a shortage just the US is. Have it shipped right to your front door. ? There are two problems with this claim. First, while Canadian parents have not seen a widespread baby formula shortage, the country has not been immune to the same global supply chain issues that have contributed to the shortage in the United States. Michelle Wasylyshen, the national spokesperson for the Retail Council of Canada, told CTV News: More importantly, the life hack in this viral message doesn't work. We tried changing our location to Canada and shopping for baby formula. While we were able to see plenty of products that were available to Amazon customers in Canada, whenever we attempted to purchase a product we were greeted with a message stating that the product could not be shipped to our U.S. address: Amazon elaborated on a page dedicated to shipping restrictions, writing: We reached out to Amazon for more information and a spokesperson told us that this workaround didn't work, saying: US based Amazon customers are not able to purchase baby formula products from Amazon.ca if they are sold and shipped by Amazon or sold by third-party sellers and shipped by Amazon. While Amazon won't ship baby formula from Canada to the United States (even if you change your location settings), shoppers may be able to find third-party sellers on Amazon who are willing to ship products across the border. This, of course, comes with an added cost. When we tried to purchase baby formula from a third-party seller, the quoted shipping price was $35. (en)
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