Challenges in Flea markets Business

Managing a business is not easy. Many people struggle on how to manage their day to day businesses. Business women in flea markets are among those who are facing challenges in business management.

pic: a sign of lack of customers  in Skytop flea market.

Business women in flea markets face challenge on how to mange their businesses and also on maintaining good image about themselves.

Most business women are seen as unprofessional people. This put them to a level of people who are not suitable for business making.

Women in flea markets are viewed as people who are less educated and who survive through selling clothes their clothes to educated people.

According to many women in flea markets, the public view them as dull people who spend most of the day bursting for sun. The public is creating a bad image about those people.

Business women expressed that they can survive better than professionals. They can earn monthly payment of a civil servant in Zimbabwe in one week time.

People should look at them as thinkers, as they can manage to survive under this collapsing economy.

Women in flea markets said that sometimes being a business women is driven by challenges you will be facing in life. They cited that some of them are widows, some have divorced and some have been left by their husbands for no apparent reason.

Some business women added that it is of their interest to be business women and not depend on any one else. They said flea markets empower them to be independent.

As women in business they need support from the public and also from the government. They need to be empowered.

Women in business complain of duties charged to them at Zimbabwe Beitbridge boarder as this always brings loss to their business.