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Porksta
Joined: 05 May 2011
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 Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:49 am Post subject: |
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| Can you buy just one fruit? Seems they only sell by groups. |
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DaHu
Joined: 09 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:29 am Post subject: |
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| I don't like buying from dirty places/locations. |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:42 am Post subject: |
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I like this kind of free market capitalism. If people want to sell food on the street to make some money, I say go for it.
Back home, I am not sure if people are allowed to sell fruit / veggies on the side of the street. I am guessing not in the big cities, as I never saw it, but I saw little stands in the small towns or next to farms...
Anyways, there are a lot of little things I love about Korea. The little things make me happy. |
I've only seen fruit sold at the side of the road like once in the US, but that was in the country. I didn't see that in the cities. It must have been around decades ago. I remember as a kid reading some story about push carts. I don't remember the details. I don't remember what the sold, but decades ago you'd see that. America should have that back that way you can encourage people who can't afford to open up a shop. That's how ice cream cones were invented anyway.
I think I'll buy more from the ajumma if I see her today. |
Exactly. Everyone must start from somewhere. Some very poor people out there want to make money -- why should their only option be working for 'the man' when you could be starting up your own biz, as small as it might be?
At least the poor have a bit of a chance, maybe save up some money, some day open a bigger place with that money. |
Too many regulations back home. Local bylaws, small business permits, tax filings, environmental rules. It goes on and on. But it would make sense to simplify the process and make it really easy for people to open their own stand. Prob better for government as they don't have to pay so much welfare and for them because they can grow their business. That should change in the future. Did anyone read that story about going to jail for selling lemonaid? How about the woman growing some vegetables in her yeard getting harassed by her local city officials? The west has become a nagging place of can't do this and can't do that. The land of opporutnity seems to be long gone. Shame. |
Where are you from? In the U.S., 60,000 new small businesses are started every year.
Seems like a lot of people can figure out how to comply with the rules. |
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roguefishfood
Joined: 21 May 2011
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 3:54 am Post subject: |
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| Weigookin74 wrote: |
| brento1138 wrote: |
like this kind of free market capitalism. If people want to sell food on the street to make some money, I say go for it.
Back home, I am not sure if people are allowed to sell fruit / veggies on the side of the street. I am guessing not in the big cities, as I never saw it, but I saw little stands in the small towns or next to farms...
Anyways, there are a lot of little things I love about Korea. The little things make me happy. |
I've only seen fruit sold at the side of the road like once in the US, but that was in the country. I didn't see that in the cities. It must have been around decades ago. I remember as a kid reading some story about push carts. I don't remember the details. I don't remember what the sold, but decades ago you'd see that. America should have that back that way you can encourage people who can't afford to open up a shop. That's how ice cream cones were invented anyway.
I think I'll buy more from the ajumma if I see her today. |
I'm not sure where you're from but it can't be the US. No stands in cities? Are you kidding? I live in New York City and walking around near my work you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a fruit stand. When I lived in Philadelphia most of my meals came from one truck or another. There's TONS of that sort of little enterprise in urban areas. It's the suburbs that lack it. |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm not sure where you're from but it can't be the US. No stands in cities? Are you kidding? I live in New York City and walking around near my work you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a fruit stand. When I lived in Philadelphia most of my meals came from one truck or another. There's TONS of that sort of little enterprise in urban areas. It's the suburbs that lack it. |
The stupid thing NYC did though was give licenses for certain locations based on where people don't eat fruit or vegetables, rather than letting the vendors either choose where to set up or go places where people buy fruit and vegetables regularly. I know they're trying to encourage healthy eating in places where people eat lots of processed foods, but what about the stall owner's profits? If they set up in a place where people, for one reason or another, aren't interested in fruit and vegetables, the vendors go out of business.  |
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