Around Termini Station or in the neighbourhood of Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, I discovered an aspect of trade I never thought about.In Italy you have many people selling fancy jewelry, umbrellas, sunglasses, bags, socks... on the streets. Do you see what I mean? These guys actually buy there goods in (mainly) chinese shops near Termini station. It's amazing how many of these you have there. These are what we would usually call wholesaler even though they sell like retailers (you can go and buy there). The quantity and diversity is amazing. Just imagine the number of earrings you can have on a 100 m2 surface given the volume of one item! Basically the chinese import the goods for nothing in Italy, sell it for 3EUR to street vendors who get at least 5EUR out of it, that value added! Ok, that's for jewelry, mobile phone accessories, socks, pens, watches... But what I didn't really understand is the number of clothes retail there with 5 persons sitting there reading the newspaper, no client, and almost nothing to sell in the shops. I don't know if it's whitewashing, an activity to get a permit of stay or if these are also wholesalers, displaying a few items for markets vendors and keeping the rest in stock.
So my advise is that if you want to buy one of these things, go directly to China town you'll have more options and get it cheaper.
So my advise is that if you want to buy one of these things, go directly to China town you'll have more options and get it cheaper.
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