“I got out of a metro car. I couldn’t get out. I have been living in the underground, metro here for more than three or four months. I have passed Jacolo, Hitco, and Capagano a million times. I wanted to go out of the door, but I always push many hardships. Lights.
– Translated lines of the 1994 song The Mexican band is the “El Metro” of Cafe Taguba
“Liter and one and a half to 10 water!” Effective bags at 5am! “
“1.5 liter bottled water for 10 pesos!” 5 Bags for Pesos! ”
These are the hackers crying echoes around the routes of the Mexico City Metro – a large public transport system, but a massive underground market, formal and informal sellers and service providers meet the different requirements of millions of riders.
Amarant Bars, Headphones, Stuffed Toys, Jeans, Japanese peanutsEpresso Machine Coffee, Skin Care Products, McDonald’s Soft Service Cones, Suros, Giant cakes. Scrap (Junk food).
All of these products – and countless other – are available for purchase in the Mexico City Metro system.
Want a therapeutic massage after a long day at work? You can get one without leaving the Mexico City Metro system. Would you like to professionally clean your teeth before going to a big job interview or leave on the first date? You can do it in the metro. Is there a call of nature? You can pay for the privilege to address you in one of the public restrooms located at different stations so that it already supports more Lucrative business.
Even sex workers They Did not offer their services In the Metro.
Everything said, About 2,000 “there are business placesRenting from these gaps in Mexico city Metro-these gaps brings significant revenue to the City Government-owned Metro-owned metro. There are also a significant number of informal sellers in the metro-stations and trains-their reserves in the years.
Over the past two weeks, I have driven the metro on several occasions and have taken care of the daily business activities in Mexico’s Megalopolis – and have been stopped at various stations to participate. As in existence Manifestations of a lot of art and culture in metroSo there is plenty of buying and selling.
The evolution of trade in the metro
“If you ride the metro a few times, cry ‘Top 10, 10 to 10, 10, 10, 10 to 10, 10 to 10! … 10 pesos its value, 10 bezos will cost you ‘ As soon as your brain will be engraved permanently. ”
I wrote those words 11 years ago When Thousands of Drown – Sellers sold in Metro cars are known – still wandering around the Mexico City Metro system, Selling a wide range of productsUsually for 10 pesos.
At the beginning of this article, everything mentioned in the songs of Cafe Daguba-more and more-Metro travelers were available, and in front of them when they crossed this great city. A subcontinent Drown That is called Bosinerose – because of the big speakers (Speakers.
“There is a lot of unemployment at this time in the country. … Rent up to me. I have two kids. I have to find a way to bring money home” One Posinero, Juan Carlos, Chinese broadcaster said CCTV in 2014 He explained why he was working on the ground.
Unfortunately – at least in my opinion – Bosinerose Then disappeared from the Metro (Goodbye Burned CDs, Hello Spadifi!), And number Drown Decreased as a result of various city oppression Informal sellersIncluding a One of the main one of the 2021 and 2022And Risk of being fined.
Diffain Wagon Wheeler-Talers, we can call Drown In English, still, the cat and the mouse are still playing, but the days when one will immediately replace another in a metro car-or the other is waiting for their ad sple to end their advertising sphere before their own progress-at least now.
On the latest day of riding metro – in it, Inspired by a dichotog.
I can’t say that I have no day of underground shopping And Green mole paste with chicken .
The soul of trade in metro: sellers
A police woman across the band’s band of Metro Caribaldi-Lawnila saw a teenage boy with a police female walk with a large layer of polystyrene containers. After she bought her (fortunately not an arrest), I wandered to see what he sells.
A kind of Mexican-Asian Fusion Snack Pack-Real is one of the offer of a full-fledged Pedler’s offer: a cream-filled chicken-filled chicken Bake.
I decided to buy a more austerity package for the “sushi” rolls (50 pesos) covered with cucumber than the usual sponge.
“Can I ask you some questions?” I ask after handing over the money.
“I’m in a hurry,” he replied. “I have to go followed.”
I am speeding through the station with adolescents, and I soon learn, named 15 years of age and Angell.
“I saw a police woman buying a meal from you,” I mention.
“Other police officers take all my meals and leave me out of the station,” Engel responds that when he does, he explains why he should go quickly to provide him with his food Customers.
Sellers in those customers spend their entire work underground and enjoy a warm (or at least dull) meal brought from the outside world.
“You have seafood today?? ”(Do you have seafood today?) A customer inquires when we walk Now“Angel responds.
He is still in school but Angell tells me that he is making good money when he comes to the ground to sell the food he takes from the outside Bonda (Dinner) is a job he has been doing since the age of 12.
Adolescent Walking (Roving Seller) One of the many metro merchants I have spoken for this story.
In Metro Sabhakano, I met Ana, responsible for Kioskin, where books are sold within one of the station’s entrances.
In Capagano – A busy station with three different lines Natural storesThere are products like chilli and garlic shampoo, shark cartilage capsules and “Sexual rights” tablets Are for sale.
“Why are there many ‘natural products’ shops in the metro?” I ask Rollando who worked in the same place Shop 22 years in Metro Sabhakano.
Two reasons, he says: A lot of people use metro every day, that is, there is a lot of trade, and secondly, there is a lot of confidence in many Mexican people Traditional Medical Products with fertile history in Mexico.
Rolando tells me that his best sellers are natural products used to treat diabetes Millions of Mexican affects people. Like any good seller, he says he has full confidence in the natural solutions he saves.
Anna, an employee of the Capahano Book Stand for the past few years, tells me that she has been selling 15 to 20 books a day. He demonstrates that business is “on the way” for travelers, and when they go to their homes to catch a train or at the end of the day, they are convenient to read or receive a gift.
Sale has declined during infections, less people use metro, and more people worked from home, and these days acknowledge that travelers are usually pasted on their cell phones rather than buried in books.
In fact, even if a bookstore is on the ground or below, the challenges they face in the 21st century are the same. However, bookstores and stars in the metro have survived even though book sales have fallen. The historic center of Mexico also has a bookstore filled with a bookstore that connects Bino Suarez and Jalo stations. “Invited”A walk through the books”(Fur through books), Literary Underbas option Celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2027.
Many metro businesses have failed to get close to that kind of long life. Like the top of the ground, this city’s bustling streets or something else, trading in the metro is in stable position. New businesses are open, old ones are closed, your favorites Pony One day, he was gone the next day.
A business center, in and out in and out
The setting up of the 163 stations of the Mexico City Metro on a daily basis, as millions of passengers enter the daily basis, setting up a business company at the entrances of the capital tunnel system will have a good business meaning.
Near the underground for the portals, these outdoor seats are the domain of the Taco stands, the hurry of the hungry people, the shushers who can rebel your black brows and many other businesses.
In the historic center of the capital, you will be accumulated by drumming the business for nearby mirrors shops. Some stations are merged with temporary markets – the illusions of the goods and Anteogidos (Tacos, Cassatillas and the like) Sisting in phases.
Metro La is located in the north of the city, outside the Villa-Pasalika Basilica of our Lady of QuadalupEvery year, the corridor dominates the corridor trade by sellers of religious arts that sell millions of people gathering to the world’s most visited Catholic pilgrimage site.
This is where I met Miguel Gutters, the seller of candles in the glass holders Quadolupin virgin.
“I sell 60 candles on a good day,” says Miguel, lamenting that business is often very slow.
However, like the many systematic and informal sellers inside and out of the metro, the transport system will make the system a very interesting, colorful and noisy place, and he will get up tomorrow, the next day and return to the small patch of Mexico to try again.
Above all, Biblical proverbial Goes, “The person who doesn’t work, he won’t eat.”
Mexico News Daily Chief Employee Writer Peter Davis ((Email protected))
