Street trading, "a temptation that affects your pocket?

street selling something that tempts your pocket

Hundreds of "Hustler" travel trains, subways and collective surprise with new merchandise, vendors and customers have on the daily ritual of buying while traveling

In the D line subway, two young men with a basket full of cornstarch alfajores pastafrolas and talk about their drug recovery and ask in the name of God to buy his merchandise, another young man, very worn jeans and football jersey, va beating on the roof of a subway C adhering to hang dish towels plunger, sells for 5 pesos, a child who has no more than 10 years, T-shirt to the knees, hands out storybooks in line B of subway, the leaves on skirts; a girl stickers distributed by 2 pesos a plate, an older man, already peeled, gets on the train station and deals Coghlan flashlights that are small key chains, also by two pesos on the platform of withdrawal, Mario is watching every train that comes to close with and offer coffee thermos hanging or cut, Jorge reaches retirement after touring the return Mitre offering lighter colors, loaded with agendas Carlos offered in trains to Tigre ...
The descriptions of "Hustler" public transport running through their shoulder goods could fill several pages. In trains, buses and subway passengers found with objects as diverse as: pens, gum, lottery tickets, guides T, socks, tissue, CDs, movies, scissors, screwdrivers, toys, coffee, biscuits, chocolates, etc. Vendors have their strategies to entice people, the places that provide the codes among colleagues and how they vary the goods in terms of what sells best.
From the look of the consumer: what things are encouraged to buy? What are tempted while traveling? What is the budget allocated for a treat to get to work? According entrusted to lanacion.com, all bought at least once in a conveyance, the most self-controlled said only buy useful things, however, would look elsewhere if they are not near a street. "Whenever I need to buy pens," says one teacher, "carilinas buy gum or because they are the same price as in a kiosk, it saves another consulted. There are those who recognize that there are "allowed", especially at the beginning of the month: "Sometimes, for example, buy a flashlight or stories for kids to paint," says a man waiting for the train to Retiro.
"The most unusual one I bought? A lady in the subway terminal D, speaks of a screwdriver that acquired because it seemed very cheap, but never pulled the nylon on coming, so, most failed to mention something that never used. When Carlos, on the platform of Retreat, is defined as "hustlers" who rescues following is his talent as a salesman: "We must ensure that people find it essential to have what I want to sell, although at home do not use never "