Tue 1 Sep 2009
The Internets Celebrities looks at street vendors: “The VenDiagram”
Posted by Miss Info under crony-ism , for fashion-hounds and obsessive consumers , for foodies, fatties, piggies , laugh with , life beyond rap , things I like , videos[15] Comments
I need that ODB beige tee….Shout to the Internets Celebrities, Dallas and Rafi, welcome back!
September 1st, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Interesting stuff. Dallas wasn’t a total douche in this.
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September 1st, 2009 at 6:06 pm
That was all kinds of awesome.
“Chea we can believe in.”
Chea…
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September 1st, 2009 at 6:54 pm
“I fucks wit naps” = LOL
“Learn to be ethnically ambiguous” = LMAO
“Just like in real life the white guys holds the money” = *dead*
I have 500 channels on my cable TV, how come these guys aren’t on one of them?
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September 1st, 2009 at 7:06 pm
What’s wrong with counterfeit? It look real to me.
Chino Latino
That doc was dope and I learned a bit
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September 1st, 2009 at 7:17 pm
i truly admire the work ethic of street vendors. first off for their ability to flip their entire inventory within minutes (i.e. all michael jackson gear on 125th street the day he passed), and their ability to sell ANYTHING. i’ve literally heard “i got that coffee cake i got that coffee cake” once in harlem
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September 1st, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Info you are sexy as hell!!!!!!!!!
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September 1st, 2009 at 9:40 pm
3:10: RIP Sacer…
Dude got a lot of XXXXXXL Polo.
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September 2nd, 2009 at 10:22 am
Very educational! But in all honestly, when people think of NY they think of vendors. From hot dogs to knock off bags. They cant erase that. POWER TO THE VENDORS!!! ;o)
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Jenn Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:25 am
Damn typos: “but in all HONESTY’” ****
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September 2nd, 2009 at 11:44 am
Vendor Power!!!! LOL
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September 2nd, 2009 at 4:39 pm
I got a lot of respect for street vendors, there’s a lot of money to be made on these streets and the city need to let the people trade and feed their families.
Virgin megastores started as a stall on the streets, to the conglomerate it is today, i’m just sayin.
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Breezy Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:29 am
Nah… Actually, Richard Branson started Virgin as a music mail order company in the late 60’s in London and then it became a retail store shortly after when the British Postal Service went on strike for 6 months straight, making it impossible to run a mail order company. It was never a stall on the streets.
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September 3rd, 2009 at 9:00 am
Ha, I was about to say what’s this dude talking about?!
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YouNG-FReSH2D Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 10:18 am
In in his own words, “In 1970 I founded Virgin as a mail order record retailer, and “shortly afterwards” I opened a record shop in Oxford Street, London. In 1972 we built a recording studio in Oxfordshire where the first Virgin artist, Mike Oldfield, recorded ‘Tubular Bells’.
http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/autobiography/
Do your own Venn Diagram. Mail order purchases Vs/and physically buying records in stores, in which circle do you expect to find the bulk of the business?
Do not confuse e-business with mail order, mail order was just a pic of the front cover of a cassete and price and had to wait weeks for postage & shipping.
My point is Mr Branson’s “eureka moment” to build his record studio e.t.c came from the marketing research he did with the face to face consumer interaction, thats why he went on to open a chain of stores worldwide. Virgin megastores was known for having the turntables at the corner of the store for people to sample before purchase which you don’t get on mail order, however, some went there to steal needles off the turntables.
The same goes for these street vendors somebody will have an eureka moment selling goods on the streets rather than on mail order, and thats based on probabilities and facts.
Not quite a stall on the streets but face to face interaction is what really build business, e.g dude with the bag of cd’s e.t.c knowing what the consumer wants is key to the success of any business.
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rafi Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:24 pm
I understand your point, though I’m not sure you can make it based on assumption. There’s a lot of research you can do via a mail order business and a lot of volume you can do that way. Also running a shop isn’t the same as being a street vendor.
We did learn while making this that Bloomingdale’s and Macy’s both started out as pushcarts. A bunch of other big businesses did as well.
Thanks Info for the post!