Mobile shops:

Goods sold by moving from one place to another on foot, carts, temporary stalls, bicycles, van, etc. are called mobile shops.

Mobile shops can be classified as follows:
(A) Hawkers:

• A person who moves from one place to another and sells his goods mainly by shouting and promoting is called a hawker. For example, fruit and vegetable seller. Hawkers sell goods on roads, near our homes, railway station, bus station, etc.
• They sell goods like fruits and vegetables, newspapers and magazines, small home utility items like plastic ware, etc.
• Hawkers sell things at prices lower than shops because their expenses are quite less than shop-owners.

(B) Temporary trader:

• People selling goods only during specific period, festival, occasion or season of the year are called temporary traders.
• For example, people selling goods in fairs and exhibitions, people selling kite and string in uttrayan, crackers during diwali, rain coat and umbrella during monsoon, woollen clothes in winter, etc. are all called temporary traders.
• Such traders may be hawkers or even shop owners but their selling period would be temporary.

(C) Fixed-day traders:

• In some cities, towns or villages a market is set-up at a certain place on a fixed day of every week or month. Sellers who bring their goods to sell in such a market are called fixed-day traders. These markets operate whole day or even night on the day they are organized.
• Such markets are called flea markets, Gujari or Hat. For example, one such Gujari market in set-up every Sunday near Ellis Bridge in Ahmedabad.

(D) Street sellers:

Street-sellers sell daily utility goods to customers on the corner of streets, foot-paths, cross-roads, pols, etc. to people living around. Example, vegetable and fruit seller.