Not more than ones or twice you seen hawkers selling their goods to those customers who are taking one for the road.Below are the reasons as to why they do this.
1.Company
You find that some of those people having their drink in pubs are lonely.So when a hawker enters a pub they feel that they have gotten someone to talk to.
At the end of the conversation, the hawk finally convinces this ‘friend’ of his to buy what he is selling.
2.Hunger
In some cases, you find that those who have decided to cool their throat by taking beer they have been working the whole day and some even didn’t have time to go take their lunch.
When a guy hawking eggs and samosa enters they feel that they are God sent.They buy that foodstuff so that it gives them satiety.
You know it is always said that you can't drink on an empty stomach.
3.Marital status
A good number of those people who are always enjoying their drink are bachelors.They have nobody to cook for them, nobody to buy them clothes especially socks.
4.Philanthropy
It is easy for a drunkard to buy something for his friend or anybody.The hawkers know this and they capitalise on that.
They are aware that these men are likely to buy some of their good and take them to their children, wives or their younger brothers’ and sisters.
5. Lack of bargaining power
When a drunkard wants to buy something he doesn’t disturb the hawker by telling him or her to reduce the price.
It doesn’t take any effort for the hawkers to ‘milk’ them their money.They also tell the hawkers to keep change.
6. Forgetfulness
Some of these people in pubs easily forget that they own in terms of personal effects like a shaving machine, mirrors, and socks.
So they buy them thinking that they have none.Also, some of them easily misplace these items making them purchase others every now and then.
7.In an effort to please
It is logical that some of these men will buy goods from female hawkers not because they need them but because they just want to please them.
8.Ready market
You find that in some cases some of these hawkers have their daytime jobs and they are doing the hawking business so as subsidize their salary.
Now that at night most people are at home those in pubs serve as potential customers.
9. Spying
A good number people who are posing as hawkers are not really hawkers, they are just out to trail some people for reasons known to themselves.
Given that they want to get certain information from a given person they just go to the pub and pose as hawkers.This gives them an ample time to get the information they want.
10.Con-men
Some of the hawkers just go on selling their goods in the pubs with an intention of conning their customers.
They sometimes think that when someone is drunk he or she is not aware of what is going on around him or her.