evidence: A smartphone shop owner in MP is offering 2 kg of complimentary tomatoes with mobile phone purchases, while a vegetable vendor in UP has hired bouncers. Amid sky-touching prices of tomatoes, vegetable sellers are trying unusual approaches, like hiring bouncers to manage customers and giving away tomatoes for free with smartphone purchases. [...] Meanwhile, in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, a vegetable vendor named Ajay Fauji has taken extreme measures to handle the tomato price hike. Fearing tomato theft, he has hired bouncers to keep customers at a distance when they come to purchase tomatoes. 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.