Mango mania spurs a selling frenzy


Mangoes at Subzi Mandi in Edison, New Jersey. — Colin Clark/The New York Times

THE mangoes were supposed to have arrived two hours ago.

Yakin Shah paced a cargo warehouse parking lot at Newark Liberty Inter­natio­nal Airport, sweating as he obsessively refreshed his phone.

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