Street Hawker's Ease-comm at danger?

This is the center of the marketplace in my native town. The man is a street hawker who is selling kid's play items. The picture is taken one day after the Diwali night. Almost the whole market was closed but in this one place, few food shops were grouped. While eating the Paani-puri there, I had this intriguing gaze put at the flying balloons.

I have seen that in small towns during the festives, there are certain traditional days (pareva) where markets are shut and people do not move out much. In big cities, this is not much cared for due to the cosmopolitan behavior of the city. 

Anyway, I was checking several posts related to a coconut seller reducing the prices of the coconuts and same time advertising in the cardboard that he is selling at a lesser price than Q-comm sellers like Zepto and Blinkit. To me, it was concerning for some reasons:

- first, will it come to this? Let's see. 

- although change is a constant, there is a lack of financial cushion at levels of street hawkers. Any of their reduced sales directly impact the basic needs of their families. Basic as in - food, medicine, paying the interest(?), getting future inventory (?).

- Q-comm, as it is quickly going to penetrate the corners of the country, it is going to bring stress in profit margins. It breaks heart to see the street vendors unattended.

- they provide an equality of service at the doorstep. Although there is liquidity in time alignment. People keep coming and passing beside your door. This could be termed as Ease-comm. They bring the whole market at your footstep and that too at a cheaper rate.

- With the structural changes, I wonder how will this change the people's work. Instead of selling ad hoc, will they as well be registered in some Zepto-like start-up? See the taxi services now. There is a certain formalization here.

For more, if these grow in size, it is going to be as interesting as the changing dynamic due to the introduction of AI and data analytics. Likewise, it will not be as we always imagine. There is increased dynamism.. 

In our hearts, these times make us realize that change is a real thing and that passes before our eyes, in all awake.