Mobile marketers sell each other the sidewalks they have ‘parked’

Traders and pedestrians in Antalya complain about those who set up mobile stalls on the sidewalks around neighborhood markets.

While market traders complain that street vendors who do not pay taxes and sell from a small stall reduce their income, citizens are concerned about the occupation of sidewalks, mainly caused by mobile stalls set up on sidewalks.

The covered market held on Wednesdays in Muratpaşa, one of the largest central districts of the city, attracts great interest among citizens.

Vegetables and fruits are sold on the first floor of the two-story market and clothing is sold on the second floor.

Street vendors line the sidewalks and sell their stalls for thousands of lire.

Chairman of the Antalya Chamber of Neighborhood Marketers Metin Bucak said: “I laughed a lot when I heard it.” He gave up the pavement for 17,500 liras. “It’s like he’s selling the title to it,” he said.

HE RENTED THE SIDEWAY TO SOMEONE FOR THOUSANDS OF TL

Interest in mobile shopping is increasing day by day due to the density of hospitals, institutions and public organizations, as well as pedestrian and vehicle traffic in the area where the market is located.

Attracting attention, street vendors also occupy the sidewalks around the market.

Here, street vendors, who sometimes set up stalls and other times try to sell the clothes, vegetables and fruits that they spread on the sidewalk, have divided up the sidewalks.

Another cannot open a stall on the sidewalk where a street vendor has opened it and, if he wants, he can only relieve that person.

Explaining that a street vendor who used to use the sidewalk in front of the Antalya District Chamber of Marketers last week transferred the sidewalk to another street vendor for 17,500 lira, Bucak said they could not prevent complaints from market vendors.

THEY ARE SELLING THE SIDE TO EACH OTHER

Noting that merchants and street vendors sometimes come face to face and are on the brink of undesirable events, Bucak stated that street vendors are waiting for a solution.

Bucak stated that 110 neighborhood markets open every day in five central districts:

We have 4,500 merchants. There are also many unregistered people who make mobile sales abroad. They sell without registering, this is our biggest problem. Those who are not registered do not pay taxes. I laughed a lot when I heard that a street vendor on the sidewalk in front of our room had given the sidewalk to another street vendor for 17,500 lire. It’s like he’s selling his deeded place. They sell the sidewalk to each other. “They also divided it among themselves.”

Mayor Bucak added that they help those who want to be marketers among street vendors to rent in empty places.

WAITING FOR END OF BUSINESS FOR SALE

There are also some rules for street vending on the sidewalks around the market, which closes around 8:00 p.m. So that the police teams do not intervene, the street vendors wait until the end of the working day, that is, at 5:00 p.m.

Street vendors, who place products such as clothing, shoes and bags, mostly second-hand, on the sidewalk from their vehicles parked on the sidewalk in the early hours of the morning, try to sell until nightfall.

Hilmi Paydaş, who has been selling to street vendors on the sidewalks for years, said that the fee asked for selling at the market is very high.

Paydaş stated that he has not opened a stall yet and is waiting for 5:00 p.m.: “We sell second-hand. The price of the place is 900 lira per day. Here we earn between 100 and 150 lira a day. I barely have money for bread, it is not possible for me to pay the requested rate. I sell second-hand clothes. “The police say not to sell, we wait until 5:00 p.m.,” he said.

THE LOSS OF TRADERS IS AT LEAST 50 PERCENT

Nurettin Çelik says that he has been selling vegetables and fruits at the neighborhood market for years and has been making a living as a market trader with his children for 20 years. Çelik stated that they pay taxes and all their transactions are recorded: “Street vendors hinder us a lot. They hinder our work by at least 50 percent. “It is very unfair for us,” he said. (DHA)