pedlars
Door-to-door sellers
Pedlars is the plural of pedlar, the British spelling of peddler—a person who travels from place to place selling goods.
Historically, pedlars carried their wares in packs or carts, going door to door or working markets and fairs.
The term extends figuratively to anyone spreading ideas or influence: pedlars of misinformation, pedlars of false hope.
Street sellers who shout
- vendorsThose who sell goods
- merchantsThose who conduct commerce
- sellersThose who offer wares
- tradersProfessional buyers and sellers
door-to-door · wares · goods · carts · barrows · tinkers · chapmen · haggling
Of the Middle Ages
- fairsPublic exhibitions and carnivals
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
- packmenWandering merchandise sellers
- journeymenQualified skilled laborers
broadsheets · almanacs · ribbons · notions · haberdashery · pots · kettles · tinware
Suppliers of goods
- spreadersThings that disp
- promotersThose who advance causes
- disseminatorsThose who spread information
- propagatorsSpreaders of ideas
rumor mongers · dealers · pushers · traffickers · distributors · brokers · misinformation · propaganda
hawkers
Street sellers who shout
traders · door-to-door · wares · goods · carts · barrows · tinkers · chapmen · haggling · bargaining
medieval
Of the Middle Ages
- fairsPublic exhibitions and carnivals
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
- packmenWandering merchandise sellers
journeymen · broadsheets · almanacs · ribbons · notions · haberdashery · pots · kettles · tinware · licenses
purveyors
Suppliers of goods
- spreadersThings that disp
- promotersThose who advance causes
- disseminatorsThose who spread information
propagators · rumor mongers · dealers · pushers · traffickers · distributors · brokers · misinformation · propaganda · snake oil
pedlarsshopkeepers
Retail establishment proprietors
storekeepers · shop owners · merchants · retailers · proprietors
pedlarswholesalers
Bulk goods merchants
retail chains · distributors · corporations · department stores · conglomerates