The hike in price of vegetables has forced people to approach new techniques to increase the sale of the vegetables.
The two incident about the sale of tomatoes has come into the limelight from two states namely Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
A city in Madhya Pradesh called Ashok Nagar has witnessed an interesting offer with a purchase of smartphone a customer will be provided 2kg of tomatoes in free. Doing this has increased the numbers of customers to his shop. Have a look at his words:
Abhishek Agarwal, the shop owner, explained, “Since tomatoes have become expensive and we wanted to offer something to customers due to increased competition in the market, we decided to offer tomatoes with smartphones”.
Another incident from UP’s Varanasi district a vegetable seller hired bouncers to guard his tomatoes on the street.
Ajay Fauji shared, “I have hired bouncers because the tomato price is too high. People are indulging in violence and even looting tomatoes. Since we have tomatoes in the shop, we don’t want any arguments, so we have bouncers here. Tomatoes are selling for ₹160 per kg. People are buying 50 or 100 gms,” PTI reported.
