What is a Flea Market?
Flea Market Bazaar Defined
A Flea Market (aka Swap Meet) is a type of bazaar that rents space to people who want to sell or barter merchandise ranging from used items to new bargain priced items of the highest quality or used goods.
Daytona Flea Market Ariel View
Many markets offer fresh produce and plants from local farms. Renters of the flea market are vendors. It may be indoors, such as in a warehouse or school gymnasium. It may be outdoors, such as in a field or under a tent. Flea markets can be held annually or semiannually, others may be conducted monthly, on weekends, or daily. Flea-market vendors may range from a family that is renting a table for the first time to sell a few unwanted household items to long term tenants who sell discounted new or used merchandise and everything in between. Typically the markets have staff members to assist visitors and vendors.
Flea market vending presents distinct elements setting it apart from street vending. Street vending takes place where a large crowd gathers and relies specifically on impulse buyers to be present, but who are in the area at the time for underlying reasons. The flea market, however, is the arena and the vendors are the show that attracts the crowds that gather for the sole purpose of buying. Flea market vending is also set in a controlled area that is governed by a self-imposed code of conduct.
