Life in Mumbai local is monotonous yet something new we see everyday we travel. There's something in this travel which actually makes us more attached to this mode of transport than any other.
This is something we all observe everyday who travel especially by second class in Mumbai local trains.A strange different voice if you hear in the compartment you realize it's the salesman with something to sell and earn his bread.
Everyday a bunch of few bread earners enter the surburban railway network of Mumbai and travel whole day. There is something about them which makes them go everyday on this huge surburban network. You need mental and physical strength both and on the top of that you need a strong voice enough to attract attention of a whole compartment jampacked with commuters. What I have observed is they know their customers and they make money perfectly where they target people for their products.
Well not always their products sell,there will be days when no one purchases anything from them, but this doesn't stop them from continuing again the next day.
People take the products and first feel the product by touching and seeing it properly if there's any defect or something like any other consumer in market and if they like it they purchase and yes they don't bargain (atleast I haven't Seen anyone).
This is their daily life and they will continue to do it. These group of simple earners also sometimes children and handicapped.
These people are actually needed for our daily travel because they have established their place here in this system and they make shop while travel and actually save our time which we spend to shop for petty or basic things such as stationery,threading kit or many such things.....
Be it children or handicapped or a youngster well one thing I can say that they are a better salesman than any other person who works in a corporate and sells because they know the customers better than anyone else at least here in Mumbai.
As I complete writing this post a salesman enters my compartment, and another JOURNEY BEGINS......
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