Several employees of a Cuban supermarket have been fired for selling 15,000 apples to a single customer in a country regularly plagued by food shortages. A group of “young, husky people” who were “organized in a quasi-military” way appeared at the store and bought 150 cases of 100 apples, according to journalist Iorel Sanchez, who said all the fruit was for a single customer. The buyer paid the equivalent of 45 cents per apple, according to receipts published in the blog post. Granma said eight employees of the store — owned by Cimex Corporation, which is state-run but subject to the laws applicable to private enterprise — had been dismissed. Cuba imports almost all the food consumed by its 11 million inhabitants, including apples, according to the official site Cubadebate.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 15, 2018 00:33 UTC