Gotta Keep Baby Formula Behind the Counter

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I was just at CVS. When I went to pay, I noticed all the baby formula was behind the counter, like Sudafed and cigarettes. Why? “Because poor people steal it a lot,” the clerk told me.

Am I the last person in America to know this? Maybe. But what a goddamn statement about our country.

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