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JULY/AUGUST 2021 BCBUSINESS 35 Dolly Tan wasn't planning to become part of a global network of people who buy things in other countries— everything from Canada Goose jackets to makeup to food products—to ship them to people in China for a fee. But a few years ago, a friend of a friend in China asked the young Burnaby mother to buy milk powder for her. That customer was willing to pay for Tan's time to get it from the store and find a courier to ship it. Then someone else asked her to buy baby food. After a while, it was, well, everything. Secret Shoppers B.C. IS A CENTRE FOR DAIGOU, AN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRY WHOSE WORKERS BUY GOODS AT STORES TO SEND TO CHINA. NO ONE KNOWS HOW BIG THIS UNDERGROUND TR ADE IS – OR WHERE IT'S HE ADED POST-COVID b y F R A N C E S B U L A + C H E N Z H O U ISTOCK