Coping with the tedium of urban market vending

Hardeen Singh trading earlier this week

On weeknights the vendors show off their fruit and vegetables on both sides of Robb Street between Alexander and Bourda streets—huge piles of mostly freshly reaped callaloo, okra, bora and tomato and an assortment of fruit in season—their stalls attended by groups of family members and helpers carefully divided into those who handle the display and the others who interface with the customers.