Customers resorted to street vendors here this week for tomatoes after supermarkets ran out of the fruit.
“We do not have tomatoes,” Pick n Pay franchisee, Ruth Krupavaram, confirmed to Business Monitor on Wednesday last week. A shop assistant at Choppies Supermarket said they were having problems with the supply of tomatoes because they bought from suppliers who got their products from South Africa.
The assistant, who did not want to be named, said Choppies was trying its best to support local farmers but was disappointed that the farmers were failing. Read more.
