shortage or recall of hipp organic baby milk?

Midnight_Tboy

hiya, I posted this over in the wrong forum section a few moments ago so thought this is prob the correct place to post this so here is a repaste

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heya.

I'm just wondering if anyone has heard anything of any problems with running out of Hipp Organic baby milk recently.

2 days ago I was in a morrisons and thought to get some baby milk while there, but the hipp aisles were empty. Thought nothing of it as was in a rush. Today however I've just been to a tesco some 20miles away, in Newton Aycliffe, as my daughters milk runs out tomorrow, and they are also empty too with temporarily out of stock notices. They did have a small amount of premade stuff however, of the bottle type not the carton.

Anywhere else had any problems with no Hipp formula in stock? I'm going to have to try our town shortly to see if these have any too. I'm really hoping they haven't decided to pull a Heinz Farleys trick on us and pull it off without notice to screw us over, as really dont fancy changing the milk yet again

Midnight_Tboy

just had a drive around my hometown Hartlepool.

First checked the local Netto but they dont sell Hipp anyway it seems.

Then tried Asda and Morrisons and they're both out of stock. Asked someone from one of the aisles at Asda who called on tannoy for someone from baby section to turn up but waiting 10mins and noone turned up so just went off.

In the end had to buy a tub of Cow And Gate so my baby has something to feed on. Really dont like swapping between milks unless can help it

So thats Bishop Auckland, Hartlepool, Shildon, and Newton Aycliffe all missing the stuff so covering a fair radius. I'm going to try Durham tesco tomorrow during work to see if they have any to stock up on, then can hopefully just mix in the odd feed here and there of cow and gate to spread it out a bit so no big change to the system if hopping back n forth

peaz

I sometimes have problems buying Hipp- our Boots (quite a large one) only every stocks two boxes of Infant stage. Asda stock about 4 and Sainsburys have just started- they didnt used to when I had my baby.

So not sure if they have recalled it but I do have problems with general availability.

HTH

xxx

mamamoi

Our Asda here in Preston was out of it last week, but managed to find some at Sainsburys and Boots.... always very limited stock there though.

Have you noticed a big price hike on it too? Early Aug it was £4.60 at Tesco, then went upto £4.99 (same price as Boots), then 2 weeks later went to £5.99 everywhere!! Don't know if other formulas have had the same increases? Maybe I should stock up before it goes up again or totally disappears off the shelves!

Just had a look on the Hipp online shop and it says:
Sorry - this item is limited to only one case per order!!

Midnight_Tboy

very weird about the website saying 1 per order too :-s

I hadn't noticed the price hike as such, however we'd only been on the stage 3 stuff after finally moving off the cow & gate stage 2 (after the farleys hungry baby fiasco), so were thinking we'd be back on something decent without worry of being messed about again like Heinz did to us......now it looks like somethings going on if websites limiting too. Will try to check a boots tmw on offchance

mr_mince

mamamoi wrote: »

Our Asda here in Preston was out of it last week, but managed to find some at Sainsburys and Boots.... always very limited stock there though.

Have you noticed a big price hike on it too? Early Aug it was £4.60 at Tesco, then went upto £4.99 (same price as Boots), then 2 weeks later went to £5.99 everywhere!! Don't know if other formulas have had the same increases? Maybe I should stock up before it goes up again or totally disappears off the shelves!

Just had a look on the Hipp online shop and it says:
Sorry - this item is limited to only one case per order!!

Prices have gone up across most formula milks as far as I can tell.

Both Tesco and ASDA near me are out of HIPP milk and there's none at their main warehouses either.