Chinese students in Australia buying up all the Baby formula pisses off Aussies

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Chinese students and others of Chinese descent were bulk buying baby formula tins from stores and sending them to China, where they are in high demand. They can make up to $3000 a week selling formula and vitamins. These shoppers are referred to by the slang term "Daigou"

The grocery stores put in place a 4 tin maximum per person to prevent single persons emptying the product and consequently nothing being available for local Aussie moms . What has transpired is that gangs of Chinese now descend on supermarkers and each 1 takes 4. Aussie moms are still annoyed they can't find the formula.

These Chinese students sell these products on WeChat and other online platforms , and they don't pay taxes or are registered as businesses.

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Carol Lin is 25. She came to Sydney in July last year as a Chinese international student and is now studying English at an ELS language centre.


She also makes up to $3000 a week selling Blackmores and baby formula to people in China.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/...mula-back-to-china-2016-6#mxFUamyxZyLPSU0P.99

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"Pictured: The 'gangs' of shoppers clearing supermarket shelves of baby formula to sell overseas - leaving desperate mothers searching for hours to find just one one tin"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nal-shoppers-swipe-formula.html#ixzz4oh3hpDd7

A young Australian mother has been left furious after 'shopping for hours' for baby formula only to watch gangs of shoppers sweep the shelves.

Brisbane mum Jessica Hook, 27, feeds her daughter Aptamil Gold, a popular formula which is now, thanks to foreign buyers, difficult to find in the supermarket.

Ms Hook's daughter goes through a tin a week - and the mother tries to buy a few at a time but says now when she finds one can on the shelf it is 'considered a win'.

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Aus gov. says it is going to crack down.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/au...a/news-story/a8753a4e96c062c7ebef3ac0d88ee536

A network of exporters have been taking advantage of the huge windfalls by flouting Australia’s export rules, and the Department of Agriculture has launched an investigation.

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"This is what happens to half of Australia’s baby formula"

Half of Australia's formula sold at retail goes to China through consumer-to-consumer channels, the Sydney Morning Herald revealed last year, with Chinese demand for the product accounting for more than $200 million in sales in 2015.


Not everyone is pleased about that. Some Australians are unhappy that their supermarkets' shelves are being emptied for what some call "smuggling" purposes, and the Chinese government says it is being deprived of tax revenue on the product.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...stralias-baby-formula/?utm_term=.d696ced32ff9

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First scotch and now this ...... yellow peril 2.0!
 
If they are breaking the law then charge them and kick them out of the country.

After a few get convicted and kicked out that should slow or stop the shit.
 
https://www.theguardian.com/busines...-formula-shortages-in-australian-supermarkets

Chinese tourists, students and relatives living in Australia had been bulk-buying the products throughout October to sell on Taobao and other Chinese websites ready for the singles day shopping frenzy, Bellamy’s Organic chairman, Rob Woolley, told media this week.

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Shoppers took to the store’s Facebook page this week to share their images and stories of bulk-buying. One woman, Bree Lymar, wrote: “I have pictures of shoppers buying trolleys full of formula at my local Sydney store.”


“They cleared out the whole stock,” she wrote. “I asked for one tin and they wouldn’t give me one. This is getting beyond a joke.”

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Total douchebag selfish behavior by the Chinese illicit exporters. Wonder how the Chinese gov. and locals would treat non-Chinese acting the same way in China
 
It's funny because this was a big thing in Australia about 6 months ago, it died down and now it's started again.

Places were meant to stop people from buying more than one at a time.
 
oldshadow said:
If they are breaking the law then charge them and kick them out of the country.

After a few get convicted and kicked out that should slow or stop the shit.
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1 of the articles I linked to in the OP said that shops don't even want to mention it is Chinese buyers, for fear of being branded racist.
 
All your baby formula are berong to us
 
Natural follow up question:

Why isn't there good baby formula in China?
 
Hang on . . . I gotta go flip some formula.
 
panamaican said:
Natural follow up question:

Why isn't there good baby formula in China?
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Chinese suppliers often put a chemical in their formula that makes the protein content appear higher but had the side effect of poisoning babies, yes they are that dumb, corrupt and heartless. There was a big scandal a few years back about this but the Chinese government still hasn't got a handle on it unfortunately.

Or maybe they have and the Chinese are just acting like a bunch of stupid, scared herd animals, who knows. Either way there's a killing to be made for foreign baby formula, Hong Kong people were reading about this a few years ago as well, as the mainlanders used to do the same there.
 
robotsonic said:
Chinese suppliers often put a chemical in their formula that makes the protein content appear higher but had the side effect of poisoning babies, yes they are that dumb, corrupt and heartless. There was a big scandal a few years back about this but the Chinese government still hasn't got a handle on it unfortunately.

Or maybe they have and the Chinese are just acting like a bunch of stupid, scared herd animals, who knows. Either way there's a killing to be made for foreign baby formula, Hong Kong people were reading about this a few years ago as well, as the mainlanders used to do the same there.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal

The 2008 Chinese milk scandal was a food safety incident in China. The scandal involved milk and infant formula along with other food materials and components being adulteratedwith melamine.

China reported an estimated 300,000 victims in total.[1] Six babies died from kidney stonesand other kidney damage and an estimated 54,000 babies were hospitalized.[2][3] The chemical gives the appearance of higher protein content when added to milk, leading to protein deficiency in the formula. In a separate incident four years prior, watered-down milk had resulted in 12 infant deaths from malnutrition
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They don't trust their own dairy companies.
 
robotsonic said:
Chinese suppliers often put a chemical in their formula that makes the protein content appear higher but had the side effect of poisoning babies, yes they are that dumb, corrupt and heartless. There was a big scandal a few years back about this but the Chinese government still hasn't got a handle on it unfortunately.

Or maybe they have and the Chinese are just acting like a bunch of stupid, scared herd animals, who knows. Either way there's a killing to be made for foreign baby formula, Hong Kong people were reading about this a few years ago as well, as the mainlanders used to do the same there.
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Thanks for the heads up. Kind of fucked up when feeding your babies is better done via consumer to consumer cross border transactions. I'm also thinking of the cost side of things. I can't imagine that shipping tins of baby formula to China from Australia is cheap and yet, despite the mark up, it's still highly desired.

You would think that ensuring safe, affordable, baby food would be something a Communist government could get done.
 
panamaican said:
Thanks for the heads up. Kind of fucked up when feeding your babies is better done via consumer to consumer cross border transactions. I'm also thinking of the cost side of things. I can't imagine that shipping tins of baby formula to China from Australia is cheap and yet, despite the mark up, it's still highly desired.

You would think that ensuring safe, affordable, baby food would be something a Communist government could get done.
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You can't even eat berries from China without getting hep A.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/cons...of-2015-and-2017-recalls-20170607-gwmb2h.html

Why it isn't all one way traffic I don't know.
 
Fine them for not paying taxes and then deport them. Problem solved.
 
RhinoRush said:
Why on Earth would anyone think that?
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I was thinking strictly in terms of China and with their one child policy and their attempts to expand on the global stage - baby food just seems like one of those things that a government would have a handle on.

Then @Peteyandjia reminded me of Venezuela and I realized I hadn't thought that comment through. But I'm not going to remove it since it was my original, if wrong, thought.
 
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