street vendor
Sign in to saveAlso known as street hawker, farmers' market, fairs, flea market, bazaar, hawking, mobile seller, road show
informal vendor of merchandise
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- profession
- Subclass of
- salesperson
- Image
- Street.hawker.in.rome.arp.jpg
- Field of occupation
- open outcry
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- Commons category
- Street vendors
- female form of label
- vendedora ambulante
- topic's main category
- Category:Street vendors
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- male form of label
- sprzedawca uliczny
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Encyclopedic overview
Street vendors, as hawkers are referred to in the United States, particularly in New York City, sell food at the Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy, in Lower Manhattan. Hawkers selling bags and sunglasses on a sidewalk in central Rome, Italy A hawker is a vendor of merchandise that can be easily transported; the term is roughly synonymous with costermonger or peddler. In most places where the term is used, a hawker sells inexpensive goods, handicrafts, or food items. Whether stationary or mobile, hawkers often advertise by loud street cries or chants, and conduct banter with customers, to attract attention and enhance sales.
Definition
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “street vendor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.