Ok, it was nothing like Sam's Club, but we went to this big city market...mostly to see it and take photos. It is "very National Geographic" as my friend said.
Everyday-ish I go to a market (a fruit stand, a meat stall, a grocery store the size of your living room) and they are all on a small scale like this picture. I wasn't trying to be artsy here. But this captures so much. The guy carrying a huge amount of some vegetable on his back (yes, see that daily). The skinny frustrated boy guarding the produce (usually they speak English better than their parents, so I deal with them a lot). The man feeding the other guy something (ok, don't see that everyday, but I have seen it). The bananas still on the stalks, the garbage, the reused cans and boxes and baskets. And coconuts. Coconuts everywhere.
Here is where I shop. The color, the filth, the bartering, the community. And I don't even need to show my membership card to get in!
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