Small Business Start With Hand Cart

'Thela', a means of self-employment. Which is being used in some form or the other in almost every area. Be it a city or a village or a town, we definitely see some goods on the cart of a cart owner. The cart owner plays an important role in the cash flow within the market. Many types of employment are possible through the cart which we also see around us.

One of those cart owners are vegetable cart owners, we see every morning around our homes that some cart owners use carts to sell vegetables. Every morning, farmers from villages around the cities come to the vegetable markets of the cities and sell the vegetables grown by them in the market. Vegetable cart owners go to the markets and buy vegetables from the farmers at wholesale prices.

Small Business Start With Hand Cart

And the cart owners keep the vegetables on those carts and come in the morning to sell them at retail prices. All vegetable vendors sell vegetables in their selected areas. The vendors buy vegetables from the market at wholesale rates and after adding their profit, they go to sell vegetables at retail rates in the streets and localities.

Due to the vendors delivering vegetables to homes, the residents of the streets and localities buy vegetables at the same price which the vendors fix for retail sale. There is a type of vendors who go to streets and colonies to sell vegetables from house to house by placing them on their carts. And the vendors earn profit by selling vegetables.

The net profit of such vendors who go from house to house selling vegetables is 30% to 50% of the cost. For example, if a vendor buys vegetables worth Rs. 1000 from a farmer in the market and brings them to the market and sells them from house to house in the streets and localities by placing them on his cart, then that vendor earns Rs. 300. A vegetable vendor can earn a profit of Rs. 1000 to Rs. 500/- on his cost.

But a vegetable vendor is one who chooses a fixed place and sells vegetables to the people coming from that place. Such vendors also buy vegetables from the farmers in the market but do not sell vegetables door to door. Such vendors earn a profit of 20% to 40% of their cost. If a vendor buys vegetables worth Rs. 1000/- and sells them by standing at a fixed place. Then he can earn a profit of Rs. 200/- to Rs. 400/- on his cost.

Both the vendors can earn sufficient profit on their cost. Setting up a vegetable cart is a unique example of self-employment. Similarly, in our next article, we will talk about other types of employment along with other vendors.