Wang selects an Australian breakfast cereal product popular in China, during a shopping trip for Chinese customers at an Australian supermarket in Sydney, Australia in August. — Reuters
Forget the luxury goods. It’s food, supplements and dairy products that’s in big demand in China, leading to the growth of an army of ‘shopping agents’ who help their countrymen obtain them for a premium.
IN 2013, student Na Wang began shipping fish oil capsules to China from Sydney to help pay the rent. Now, she’s in business, part of a growing army of Chinese shopping agents sending Australian food and diet pills home to feed rampant demand.
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