Three Men Load Baby Formula Cans In Car As Opportunists Sell These To China At Higher Price

Three men were�caught on camera loading baby formula cans into the back of a car in Adelaide as opportunists buy and sell it in�China�for four times the price.

The three men were seen loading dozens of tins in to the back of a silver hatchback in Adelaide after raiding multiple supermarkets, among these are Coles, Woolworths, and Chemist Warehouse.

The tins would be worth thousands of dollars if sold in China where demand skyrocketed due to a number of contamination scares.

9News received reports from shoppers that people would come in to Coles with two trolleys and take all the formula off the shelves. “I’m furious because my sister has kids of her own and she struggled to get formula,” Adelaide mum Brooke Langdon said. “There’s kids out there who can’t have formula because people like them are buying more than they’re meant to.”

Woolworths said it had a four-tin limit per transaction, however, it is hard to enforce this ruling as a lot of stores have been left with almost no stock.

In Australia, a tin of powdered baby formula costs $25, but in China, that same product can be sold for up to $100 due to the high demand.

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Clare Whitfield is the Editor of Stay at Home Mum and a recognised voice in practical home management for Australian families. Based in the northern suburbs of Sydney, she balances editorial leadership with life as a stay at home mum to two school age children. Her background in home economics and more than a decade of experience in recipe development, family budgeting, and household systems inform her work.

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