The life and times of a pavement vendor

“It is a daily struggle, some days are good but others like you don’t get no sale. But I prefer doing what I am doing because I don’t want to work with people right now,” Martha (not her real name) said as she kept her eyes peeled for the next customer.

“I come out six days a week from in the morning until night and some days I would make like $5,000 or on a day a little more, but remember I have to buy and restock so sometimes when the month come I only make like $10,000 profit but I have to try,” she continued.

Martha has been a confectionary vendor for a number of years and she occupies one of the busy thoroughfares of the city. She agreed to talk to me about her life as a vendor but made sure she requested that her