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A marketplace is the space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates. The term is also used in a trademark law context to denote the actual consumer environment, ie. the 'real world' in which products and services are provided and consumed.
Marketplaces and street markets
A marketplace is a location where goods and services are exchanged. The traditional market square is a city square where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise. This kind of market is very old, and countless such markets are still in operation around the whole world.
- In the USA such markets fell out of favor, but renewed interest in local food has cause the reinvention of this type of market, called farmers' markets, in many towns and cities.
- In continental Europe, especially in France, street markets, as well as "marketplaces" (covered places where merchants have stalls, but not entire stores) are commonplace. Both resellers and producers sell their wares to the public.
- Markets are often temporary, with stalls only present for one or two days a week ("market days"), however some (such as Camden Market in London, UK) are open every day of the week. Such markets are normally specialist—the various stalls of Camden Market, along with the shops associated with it, sell a variety of alternative lifestyle products ranging from clothes and jewellery to CDs, instruments and furniture. An example of a large market is Chatuchak weekend market in Bangkok.
- Some large markets have become permanent institutions comparable to shopping malls. One example is the huge Seventh-Kilometer Market near Odessa, Ukraine.
The Roman term for market, still in use in a related sense, is forum. The modern shopping mall can be seen as an extension of this concept.
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Weird day today, grey, cold adn i have to go buy some stuff in the market today, not a big fan of marketplaces.
Nando_nl (Nando Lopes) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:30:01 -0000
Weird day today, grey, cold adn i have to go buy some stuff in the market today, not a big fan of marketplaces.
Marketing-Power 2010: Wir sind in diesem Jahr auf allen 5 stb-marketplaces dabei! Start ist in Hamburg am 18.02.: http://bit.ly/52RXjU
Maritim_Hotels (Maritim Hotels) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:46:41 -0000
Marketing-Power 2010: Wir sind in diesem Jahr auf allen 5 stb-marketplaces dabei! Start ist in Hamburg am 18.02.: http://bit.ly/52RXjU
Just achieve 700 sales at @GraphicRiver and @ActiveDen Marketplaces, thanks so much to all my costumers. New stuff to come...
fractma (Antonio Maldonado) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:02:31 -0000
Just achieve 700 sales at @GraphicRiver and @ActiveDen Marketplaces, thanks so much to all my costumers. New stuff to come...
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