Salcedo Market is located at the heart of Makati City Business District. Imagine the high rising buildings and underneath is a Market which is clearly an irresistible place to go especially when you are a person who loves to go looking for something to buy and looking for something to eat. As I browse the market place and its stalls, they offer great deals on vegetables, fish, meat, quality sideboards, flowers, buffet furniture, local delicacies like bibingka and suman. Everyone that I interviewed said that the market is a big success, imagine just over a hundred stalls but the customers are more than thousands. That surely sounded like a big hit. The vendors do the selling and the customers do the advertising through word-of -mouth. These vendors are mostly residents of Makati, though some are merchants from other districts, they still come to love the market place every Saturday when people are so much interested on each of everyone’s merchandises.
They say that the main purpose of this is to let the people of Makati and other districts out of their houses and enjoy the different varieties that are to be offered. They say that every Saturday, they help soothe the minds of workers by giving them what they need and consumers in return, give profit to the vendors. Additional information about the vendors: Most or some of them are local business owners such as flower shops, restaurants with good kitchen hutches and such establishments alike alike. What they sell here are not the leftovers of their inventories, everything is fresh. What they offer is their share on their inventories which are literally in a good marketable condition and is safe and healthy.
For me, what they practice here is healthy too. Of course what they do is for profit but the reason behind them is that enjoy it even more than the money. They, pertaining to the vendors, enjoy seeing many people around their community, familiar faces from their jobs but entirely different people when it comes to the market place. For them it is fun to give what they have to offer for the benefit of the majority.
This is a good practice especially for a busy city like Makati. They’ve thought of the idea of not having the consumers go to the market but the market go directly to the consumers where it is more accessible yet their products are top of the line just like our local markets.
Giving other people their needs is an accomplishment, seeing
