“There are tough days too, but there is enormous potential in these markets. There is another MBA graduate, Shlok Singh, who sometimes steps in for his father as a vegetable vendor.Īpart from the three, there is a hotel management graduate who left his job at a prominent hotel in the city to set up his own stall to serve different varieties of pasta. Saksham says he knows at least seven other men with degrees in other weekly markets in the city who have been working part-time.
At Shani Bazaar itself there is Ravi Roshan, a BCom graduate who sells designer cutlery. He insists I enjoy my weekend, but I cannot let down the business that has given me my education and job,” says Saksham, who has his weekly leave on Saturday and Sunday. He is not the only educated youth working in the weekly markets. “If I work here for one day, my father gets to rest for two days a week. Shopkeepers at these markets put up their stalls for five to seven days a week in different areas. Now he uses his weekly off at the multi-national company in Gurgaon to step in every Saturday at the weekly Shani Bazaar in west Delhi’s Janakpuri. As a school and college student, he assisted his father on holidays. It has never been an everyday affair for him. Dressed in low-waist jeans and half-sleeved jacket over a shirt, the 29-year-old man with spiked hair and black-rimmed glasses is willing to hold as many as five pairs of shoes in his hands, if that helps customers decide. He knows the cliches, and can rattle on about his products in one breath.īut the MBA graduate from a private college in UP claims that he lets his looks do most of the talking. He can change his voice and pitch to attract buyers. He can call out to customers like any other salesman. Having assisted his father for the past 15 years or so, Saksham has picked up most of all that is to learn about selling goods at the weekly market. He can pick out prospective buyers by observing their clothes even if they are at the next stall,” he says as a matter of fact. The next couple of minutes are spent in convincing the customer why she should not think twice in buying two pairs of shoes for Rs 150 each. It takes Saksham Jain five seconds to spot a genuine buyer among a crowd of “window shoppers”.
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MNC professional helps his father sell wares at weekly market on his day off
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