Most times when we go to big malls and supermarkets, we never question their prices. We pay the exact amount on the price tag, we even most times go as far as giving out payment valance to staffs there.
The moment we are out from this big malls and supermarket and go to all this poor hawkers or retailers to buy some little things we price and price and makes sure we divide the selling price of the poor retailer.
This poor retailer that struggles to survive, it might even be a child trying to feed and raise money for school fees and other things. She tells you a hip of orange is sold for 200 naira each, he or she will even take out time to explain how difficult it was to buy those oranges, the transportation from the villages they go to buy and everything. But you go ahead to price an orange sold for 200 for 80 naira, and even insist on the 80 naira or you won't buy.
You will even step back into your car and make to drive away. But because ‘half bread is better than a non’, this poor seller is forced to call you back and sell to you at little or no gain. In her heart, she’s worried about how she’ll cope.
The poor retailer tells herself that ‘It’s well. God will definitely provide” While you happily chop pay for the oranges and even wait to collect every penny of your balance. Now, let's take some seconds out and analyse this. Am always filled with pity when I see people who genuinely and helplessly hawk petty goods to make ends meet.
Especially mothers and children, most of them are harassed and molested by heartless buyers, mostly those useless men that buy regularly from them. They won't have any option than to succumb, because if they don't those wicked men won't buy from them, thereby the perishable goods spoiling with them.
Please and please don’t bargain hard with small vendors like this, they do business not to buy
designer bags, designer clothes build mansions and drive flashy cars, but to SURVIVE.“
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