These are the backyard warehouses packed with tonnes of baby formula tins bound for the Chinese black market.
Footage aired by Seven News shows Chinese buyers emptying the shelves of Australian supermarkets and taking baby formula back to makeshift warehouses to be resold on the Chinese market.
The footage shows buyers stripping the shelves and shielding their faces from view as they leave the supermarket.
Buyers are seen buying the baby formula products in bulk, before reselling them to the Chinese market
The overwhelming amount of baby formula is then shown in piles on the ground of the warehouses
The overwhelming amount of baby formula is then shown in piles on the ground of the warehouses.
The expose is the most recent insight into the multi-million dollar industry known as the ‘daigous’ market.
Powderered milk and baby formula from Australian supermarkets has earned opportunistic exporters top dollar.
Chinese nationals have sold the product in bulk back home, where local milk-poisoning scandals led to a huge demand for Australian dairy products.
Chinese locals have paid top dollar for the baby formula – further stimulating the market.
The booming market forced supermarkets to take action and enforce limits on the number of tins bought in the one hit, but it was unable to stop the business as more and more backyard warehouses continued to crop up.
The overwhelming amount of baby formula is then shown in piles on the ground of the warehouses
The booming market forced supermarkets to take action and enforce limits on the number of tins bought in the one hit, but it was unable to stop the booming business
One Brisbane mother grew so fed up with the shortage, she took matters into her own hands
The Chinese black market left Australian parents empty handed.
With little product on the shelves, Australian parents were pushed to the limit.
One Brisbane mother grew so fed up with the shortage, she took matters into her own hands.
Jessica Hook, 27, last month publicly shamed a group of daigous shoppers after she caught them stripping supermarket shelves.
She posted footage of the shoppers piling baby formula into their cars while saying ‘it’s just always a particular demographic, they come in groups, work as a team and clear the shelves’.
The Channel Seven investigation will air at 6pm on Tuesday.
The Brisbane mother posted footage of the shoppers piling baby formula into their cars while saying ‘it’s just always a particular demographic, they come in groups, work as a team and clear the shelves’