Q.Write a short note on: Hawkers and Pedlars.

Hawkers and pedlars are travelling retailers who sell goods door-to-door or street-to-street with little capital. This is a short TS Intermediate 2nd-year Commerce 2-mark term from internal trade.

Explanation

Hawkers and pedlars are a type of itinerant (mobile) retailer who do not have a fixed place of business. They move from one locality to another, and from street to street or house to house, carrying their goods with them on a handcart, bicycle, basket or on their head. They deal in small quantities of low-priced, daily-use consumer articles such as fruits, vegetables, toys, utensils and garments. They require very little capital, offer goods at the customer's doorstep, and allow bargaining, which makes shopping convenient for buyers. The difference in usage is slight — a pedlar generally carries goods on foot or head, while a hawker may use a cart or cycle — but both sell directly …

Cheap jacks are small itinerant retailers who take temporary premises in a locality to sell cheap goods and move on when business falls off. A TS Inter 2nd-year Commerce / NCERT-aligned internal-trade term.

Cheap Jacks

Cheap jacks are a type of itinerant (travelling) retailer in internal trade. Unlike a pedlar or hawker who moves from door to door, a cheap jack hires a small shop or vacant space in a residential or market locality for a limited period and deals in cheap, low-priced consumer articles such as household goods and toys. He has a semi-fixed place of business, but it is not permanent: once the sales in that locality decline and the business becomes less profitable, the cheap jack closes down and shifts to another locality. Thus cheap jacks keep moving from place to place in search of …

Hawkers and pedlars are travelling retailers who sell goods door-to-door or street-to-street with little capital. This is a short TS Intermediate 2nd-year Commerce 2-mark term from internal trade.

Explanation

Hawkers and pedlars are a type of itinerant (mobile) retailer who do not have a fixed place of business. They move from one locality to another, and from street to street or house to house, carrying their goods with them on a handcart, bicycle, basket or on their head. They deal in small quantities of low-priced, daily-use consumer articles such as fruits, vegetables, toys, utensils and garments. They require very little capital, offer goods at the customer's doorstep, and allow bargaining, which makes shopping convenient for buyers. The difference in usage is slight — a pedlar generally carries goods on foot or head, while a hawker may use a cart or cycle — but both sell directly …

Hawkers and pedlars are small travelling (itinerant) retailers with no fixed shop who carry a little stock of low-priced daily-use goods from street to street and house to house, selling directly to consumers with very small capital.

Hawkers and pedlars belong to the group of itinerant (mobile) retailers in internal trade. They do not keep a permanent shop. They carry a small quantity of goods on a handcart, a bicycle, a basket on the head or in the hand, and move about from one locality to another, from street to street and even from door to door, offering their goods to customers. They usually deal in inexpensive articles of daily use such as fruits, vegetables, snacks, toys, bangles, cloth and small household items. The difference between the two is slight: a pedlar generally carries the goods on his person (head or hand), while a hawker often uses a cart or cycle. Both need very little capital, offer convenience by taking goods to the customer's doorstep, and often sell at bargainable prices. This …