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Cash crisis in Greece affecting ordinary people

Lettuce farmer Andonis Vezyroglou is suffering from the effects of the Greek debt crisis, first hand. “We expected some drop in sales,” he says. “But we did not have a clue what it would mean.” [caption id="attachment_18093" align="alignright" width="648"]greece_atm-800x533 Athens, Greece. 27 June 2015 — People line up at an ATM outside a branch of Piraeus Bank, in Athens. Photo by Alexandros Michailidis. Copyright Demotix[/caption] So far, his sales have dropped between 20 and 25 percent in the past week, and he has no idea how much fu...