An Asian buyer's cart is full of milk powder. (3AW photo)
Australian parents still struggle to buy infant formula, according to the Daily Mail. To prevent lucrative milk powder from being sold overseas, a registration system for purchasing agents was proposed.
Before the proposed registration system, shoppers were photographed walking out of the supermarket with stacks of baby formula. 31-year-old Cyro (Molder Sayrao) admitted selling milk powder for export amounted to A $90,000 a year.
When (Macquarie University) studied at Sydney Macquarie University in 2014, the lucrative daigou business began. At that time, her family asked her to send something back to the country, and the news quickly spread. Through the social app platform, she sent a can of vitamins, skin care products, milk powder from Australia.
To solve the confusion of snapping up milk powder, a solution was proposed this week, a registration system for purchasing agents. It is reported that starting this month, purchasing agents may be registered with supermarket executives. 7 said the move is expected to track the estimated 40,000 purchasing agents across Australia.
Buyers can place orders without restrictions, so manufacturers can better understand the demand for products.
It is said that the sale of vitamin products is also intended to adopt a similar system. The plan will also help supermarkets boost profit margins and avoid scuffles in the store aisles.
Earlier last month, Melbourne's mother, Uriola (Catherine Urriola), encountered the chaos in the aisle between shelves at a Woolworths supermarket. She filmed boxes of shoppers snapping up milk powder, saying it was "unbelievable."
By the end of last year, Coles and Woolworths had moved the limit on infant milk powder from eight cans back to two cans in an attempt to stop bulk purchases of baby milk powder and to sell it overseas at a high price. The baby milk powder is popular in China, with some Chinese consumers paying high prices to sell branded milk powder.