INFORMAL SERVICE OFFER: PEDDLING

Informal sector, which is defined with several names such as disguised unemployment, illegal economics or marginal economics, emerges as earning opportunities outside the modern system which operates with limited resources. The term “informal sector ” does not only imply the processes addressed to manufacturing, but services as well. Informal sector retailing act, which will be mentioned as “peddling ” is regarded as an innovative service handled with small capital or none. Thus, the sector operates both in production and distribution of goods which will be mentioned as “catchpenny articles ” sold on street peddles. The study introduces peddling as the retail service offered by informal sector and aims to investigate the qualities peculiar to peddling act. The wide range of goods and services peculiar to informal sector are identified to be low-cost, labor intensive, unregulated, competitive and unrecorded. Falling outside the reach of government regulations, peddling appears as an immediate service offered by informal sector that responds a need whether identified or unidentified by the user. Peddling differs fro