The Tales of Street Vendors: A Case Study on keep people safe, and foster the liveliness and

Street Vending in Ormoc City comity that characterizes thriving, humane

cities.
Phoenex Daffon, Tripon Sanico, Stephanie Claire
Vinculado Bhowmik et al. (2012) expresses that
there are three kinds of street vendors. The first
and most prevalent type of vendor in most cities
1.1 Introduction is the static vendor. These folks sit on the
sidewalks and sell their items. Mobile vendors
Informal activities are important for
are the second and third types. There are
numerous reasons. From a societal standpoint,
distinctions between the two. The first are
informal employees lack social safety and
individuals who sell their items using push carts
insurance, which may harm their economic
or hand carts. These people either wander about
prospects and have wider implications for
the neighborhood selling their items or part their
inequality and poverty. Informality also has an
cart on the street. Their clients come to them to
impact on labour market outcomes, productivity,
buy things when they are moving about or
and growth, albeit the overall effect is unknown
afterwards when they are parked. The third form
(Andrews et al., 2011). The Philippines is one of
is the mobile vendor, who carries items in
the countries with large informal activities.
baskets on the head or, if two large baskets are
Blunch et al. (2001) states that the informal
used, these are linked to two ends of a bamboo
sector in the Philippines absorbs 66.9% of
pole and carried on the shoulder.
employment. Meanwhile, in other Asian
countries, the contribution of this sector to Street vending is a necessary part of the
employment ranges between 77.9% in public sphere. This sector contributes to the
Indonesia, 67.1% in Pakistan, 51.4% in economic vitality of the city. According to
Thailand, and 73.7% in India. Informal Fletcher and Ahmed (2011), street vending
activities, hence, have become an epidemic not activities serve three critical functions in urban
just in the Philippines but anywhere or far and economic systems. The first crucial role of street
wide across Asia. vending is that it provides a significant amount
of employment to the urban and migrant
The informal sector, which primarily consists
populations. The second important economic
of street vending, is critical to income
contribution of street vending is that the
generating, job creation, and production (Recchi,
activities of street vendors have a cascading
2020). It is a source of livelihood for many
effect on the local economy (Flaming et al.,
people globally. Street vending is one of the
2015). This is demonstrated when street vendors
most innovative ways to do business. With an
offer their products to passers-by; as their profits
informal business, vendors can support their
grow, so does demand for more goods and
families and pay for their kids’ education.
services from local suppliers. Third, Ray and
Recently, street vending offers many Mishra (2011) stated that street vendors provide
advantages for cities restarting after COVID-19 a low-cost, decentralized, and highly efficient
shutdowns. For starters, it can alleviate some of system of distributing daily products. These are
the economic impact of the pandemic. Second, it goods like fruits and vegetables, which cannot
is more easily structured to induce social be adequately served by the formal sector.
distancing than the internal areas of congested
All things considered, the researchers
commercial malls. These behaviors expand the
are interested in discovering and analyzing how
possibilities for street commerce (Short, 2020).
street vendors function at the Ormoc City Public
Street vendors make cities livelier, safer, and
Market, their attitude towards the regulation of
fairer. Promoting street vending may create jobs,
the Local Government Unit, and how the LGU who were chosen at random and from the two
protects their rights against discrimination. concerned LGU personnel of the Ormoc City
Public Market. The researchers will move
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
through with conducting their interviews of the
Research Design allotted period if both parties agreed on the time
and timetable. This study made use of two
This study used the qualitative groups of respondents. The first group was street
descriptive research design. It made use of vendors who may be male or female. Under this
individual interviews for target participants: group, there were a total of fifty respondents
street vendors, to get a comprehensive summary who were interviewed individually. The second
of their difficulties, sentimentalities, and group consists of two (2) LGU personnel who
struggles in street vending. Moreover, an were assigned to Ormoc City Public Market.
interview schedule was also drafted for the They were interviewed to provide a better grasp
personnel coming from the Local Government on the subject matter according to the mandates
Unit. The information provided by the key of their office.
informants was recorded and arranged in such a
way that it will be presented in the most relevant
manner. The respondents of this study were fifty
street vendors from the Ormoc City Public
Market at Ebony St., District 2, Ormoc, 6541 References
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