Election Season Bans Unusual Apple Sales

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A government agency sent a special paper to shops. It asked stores to limit apple sales from September 1 to 15.

This time was exactly during the election campaign. The paper explained that apples sound like a political party's name.

This could make people think the party is very popular. Shops quickly started to follow these new rules from the document.

They moved apples to closed displays and sold them by passport. Some shops even changed apple names on price tags to \"round seed fruits.\"

Stores selling healthy food were very confused by this order. They worried if other fruits like pears would also be restricted.

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What did the government agency ask shops to do?

The agency asked shops to limit apple sales from September 1 to 15.

Why did the agency want to limit apple sales?

They wanted to limit sales because apples sound like a political party's name.

How did shops respond to the new rules?

Shops moved apples to closed displays and sold them by passport.

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