We got some plums, some limes, some mangoes.

That's our colleague Laura Cooper. She's at a farmer's market in Houston.

The market is in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood.

Many of its stalls sell goods imported from Mexico, things like herbs and dried chilies, spicy candy for pinatas, and traditional ceramic products.

In one of the stalls, Laura met a vendor named Isabel Aguilar.

Isabel was helping a customer buy some maryngas seeds, which are used to make tea.

If you take the libra, you can't have 35, 30, you'll take the $3.5.

How do you say that's the half libra?

Over the last few months, business at our stall hasn't been great.

Isabel says she's noticed that her customers are buying less.

She says they're nervous to spend money.

They're nervous to spend money.

She's nervous, no, well, I'm going to get to contadito or that's,

not more for the food, because, well, I don't put to gastar more,

I have to funder, it's more more more because

they're

going up.

And customers

have

told her

that

they're

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