SLC31-W3: Shop & Share Challenge - Street Market Purchase

^{Roadside fruit shop}

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I visited a small roadside fruit shop in Phulbari Upazila in my area. They sell various types of fruits and make fruit makha. Local people and people who come to the market to shop buy various fruits and eat various fruit makha from this shop. This fruit shop can be seen every day in front of the paper house when going through Library Road from Phulbari Nimtala intersection. They sell the fruits at a very low price. This shop is open every day from 9 am to 12 noon and from 3 pm to 8 pm.

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^{When I visiting a fruit shop}

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I went to Phulbari Market yesterday to buy pants. When I got there, I stood for some time next to this fruit shop on the side of the road. There I saw many delicious fruits and those which were being mashed with chili. This doubled the taste of these fruits. After standing there for some time, I realized that these fruits were all fresh, which is why I bought guava paste from this shop for 20 taka or 3 steem, which was full of incomparable taste.

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^{Preserved cut fruit}

^{Various ingredients for fruit paste}

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When I visited this fruit shop, I saw only 2 fruits in this shop, one was pear and the other was pineapple. Here, each plate of fruit is sold for 20 taka or 3 steem. Also, these fruits are sold here by the kilogram.

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Item	Price (Taka)	Price (STEEM)
1 kg Guava	80	11.43
1 kg Pineapple	60	8.57
1 plate Pineapple Mix	20	2.86
1 kg Guava Mix	20	2.86

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	Shop set up in a van

	pineapples

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This road from the library is very busy in the afternoon. This road is often crowded due to the large number of rickshaws plying on it, so the fruit shops sell more fruits, but these fruit shops cause more crowding on the road. Because they often occupy the sidewalks of the road and do business. There are three to four more fruit shops on this road, all of which sell fruits on the side of the road. When they see a crowd on the road, they start selling more of their products, which usually increases the suffering of the people due to the crowding.

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^{The guava paste that I purchased.}

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^guava

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To improve the efficiency of the traders, my best advice to the roadside fruit vendors is to sell fresh fruits regularly. Although the fruit vendors here sell locally grown fruits, I think they should bring these fruits from the fields every day and present them to the customers. If they present their fresh fruits properly to the customers, they will be able to increase their fruit sales and become financially self-sufficient.

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^{Fully furnished shop with lighting system.}

^{shop owners}

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In the full discussion, I would like to introduce the owner of this shop. Businessman Sohel Rana. He is a small businessman who buys only $40 worth of fruits and earns $7-8 per day, with which he covers all the expenses of his family. He has been in business for about 2 years. He can be an inspiration for new businessmen. So we have a lot to learn from these small businessmen.

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map information

map	information
google	phulbari Library road link
steem-atlas	//:# (!steematlas 25.4989375 lat 88.9541875 long Street fruit house d3scr)
Travel date	27-04-2026