Standing behind a stack of baskets filled with tomatoes, onions and potatoes, Khaled Rouby, a Cairo vegetable seller, complains about the quality of the produce he buys from the wholesaler.
“Some days up to a quarter of the tomatoes are bad,” Mr Rouby says. “I separate the bad ones and sell them cheaper. But everything is now expensive. There simply is not enough produce in the country.”
Every day Mr Rouby sets up his few baskets in the street market in Dokki, a middle-class area of Cairo. Dokki boasts some well-stocked shops with large displays spilling out on the pavements, and many small vendors sitting on the ground or selling from carts shielded by parasols from the scorching sun. No shop has air-conditioning and nothing is refrigerated.
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