How to become a hawker or Stall holder

Official title: Hawker/Stall holder (excluding prepared food and drinks)

Also called: Hawker (excluding prepared food and drinks), Stall holder (excluding prepared food and drinks), Street vendor (excluding prepared food and drinks), Ÿ Street vendor (excluding prepared food and drinks)

Hawker/Stall holder (excluding prepared food and drinks) sells various goods from stalls on open-air or covered markets or from stalls in streets or other open spaces.

Main tasks

• Obtaining permission to set up a stand at a particular place in streets, markets or other open spaces
• Determining product mix, stock and price levels for goods to be sold
• Buying or contracting a regular supply of goods to be sold from wholesale suppliers or directly from producers
• Demonstrating and selling goods and accepting payment
• Stacking and displaying goods for sale, and wrapping and packing goods sold
• Keeping accounts and maintaining a record of stock levels

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

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Questions people ask

Will AI change the work of a hawker or Stall holder?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026