Posts Tagged ‘Koyambedu Wholesale Market’

Pirambu

… aka Bamboo Cane baskets. Pirambu Koodai is the tamil name for this.
These baskets used for carrying / selling flowers or vegetables or fruits by the retail vendors. Also used by the retailers of perishables at their shops to display their wares.
Eco friendly baskets instead of plastic ones.
A shop selling them at Koyambedu Market.

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People, Week 23

Tamizharasan, works on weekends at the Koyambedu Vegetable market at his family shop which sells pumpkins in wholesale. Is studying on other days of the week at a neighbourhood school.

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Early morning trade

The Jasmines and other flowers all ready to be shipped to the retailers from the wholesale market at Koyambedu.
Fragrant trade.

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People, Week 19

Meet Rahul, the son of a vegetable/ fruit Retailer (or) Trader in his locality. (Seen here with his father) Rahul helps his dad along with his elder brother on sundays / weekly offs to come along with his dad to buy Vegetables & Fruits for their shop. Otherwise studying in class 6.
Has an infectious [...]

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Kamaraj Flower Market

Kamaraj Flower Market is the place where the government shifted the Flower Bazaar from Parrys Corner some years back. This is adjacent to the Anna Fruit Market & Koyambedu Vegetable Markets.
The idea of a organised market with access for the goods carrier vehicles to almost next to your shop is good. But the general hygiene [...]

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Dying Profession

Nowadays i’m seeing very less of these people who used to go to shops with their “சாம்ப்ராணி” stands and wish good for the shopkeepers and collect some moneys. Though there might be varied opinions on why should they do this etc, but this is one such act is slowly coming to an end in the [...]

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Loaded

… for life. These guys make their living by carrying the sacks full of vegetables, fruits or flowers at the Koyambedu wholesale market. They are employed by the number of sacks they carry and paid accordingly. Their peak hours is normally around 2am till 7am in the mornings, when the load arrives from various destinations [...]

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