hawkers

Holographic hawkers flickered at the edges of vision, their pitches fragmented by the static of black-market neural rigs.

No, like Costco's sample hawkers, most janitors at tech companies are contractors, and probably not paid all that well.

But that cancerous idea is older than the internet -- adversing, hawkers and scammers, they've been around since forever.

It's not gated communities, it's Wal-Mart, payday loan joints, low-end casinos and hawkers in the streets.

One more great thing about such buses is they generally stop at places where there are a lot of hawkers.

Street hawkers may be annoying, but they also represent the most basic form of entrepreneurial spirit.

But pirated books sold on by footpath hawkers sell like hot cakes only because many foreign best sellers are generally expensive.

Have you seen how vegetable push cart vendors, street salesmen or hawkers are treated.

It brings to mind traveling medicine shows, and hawkers selling their special magic elixir that would cure any ailment you could imagine.

As for Siem Reap, I guess if you stayed for long enough the hawkers would start to recognise you.

From the street hawkers to the bankers, from a school going teen to the old man with walking stick, every one does that.

Stay at hotels, eat at restaurants, take taxis, but don't encourage the obnoxious hawkers, no matter how young they are.

The term is as diluted and stained as "synergy", just another word ground into the dirt by the gaggle of suit-and-sandal VCs and startup hawkers.

On instagram I was showed an ad about young hawkers having "innovations" to classic dishes, like Hokkien mee kosong, but of course they aren't the majority.

The "business model" of these hawkers in third world countries like Cambodia or Laos is to explicitly present themselves as impoverished, and then pressure or guilt-trip you into buying something from them as a gesture of charity.

Compare this to say with a book like "Seven habits of highly effective people' there was a time when hawkers on the footpaths would have something 100 copies always stocked because the original book was expensive and pirated ones sold like hot cakes.