Steemit Engagement Challenge S4-W1|Traditional Retail Shopping : Lafenwa Market

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Hello Enterpreneurs,
It is a great opportunity to appear before this great community today.

Today, I am making this post in attempt to the steemit engagement challenge contest hosted by this great community.

This contest happens to be very interesting as it entails review of our local market, please follow along as I begin my entry.

Permit me to begin providing answers to this section by giving the definition of a market.

A market can be explained to be a place where buying and selling takes place.

Buying and selling can be done online and offline.
The online buying and selling can be referred to be the modernize form of marketing while the offline/physical method can be explained to be the traditional method of marketing.

In my vicinity, there are different traditional market but lafenwa market happens to be the biggest and most popular.

Lafenwa market is located in the western region of Nigeria, ogunstate to be precise and below is it location on google map.

As shown above is the location of lafenwa market from google map.

Lafenwa market as I earlier said is the major market in lafenwa and it has lots of sections where different varieties of goods are sold and bought.

Whenever we run out of foodstuffs at home, I prefer going to lafenwa market because I will get whatever I want and at a cheap rate compared to other traditional market.

Lafenwa market has lots of sections, there is a section where creams are being sold, foodstuffs, and other variety of things.

Shown below are some sections of lafenwa market.

Shown above are various aspects of lafenwa market.

Today, we ran short of some foodstuffs and I was sent to get some from our traditional market.

I love going to lafenwa market because despite the cheap prices of commodities, the retailers are also very friendly.

Below are the list of some commodities I bought today and the equivalent in steems.

A part of this question have been answered in the initial section.

Lafenwa market is located in the wastern part of Nigeria, in ogunstate precisely.

It is a very popular location in ogunstate, ota town, and is known by every bike man.

Coming from Lagos State, you can take a bike to mopol junction which will cost 150NGN and then from mopol junction, you can take another bike to lafenwa which will cost 150NGN, making it a total of 300NGN which is equivalent to 2steems.

There are numerous reasons I enjoy and prefer shopping at lafenwa traditional retail market, some of them are:

• One reason I love going to lafenwa market is that the market has virtually everything I want to buy.
  And the most interesting part is that there are numerous retailers selling one product and as such you can get a quality goods at a cheap price.

• Another reason I prefer going to lafenwa market is because whenever I go to lafenwa market, I tend to see some good old friends.

There are lots of my childhood friends that got septated from me due to some reasons, most times we come across one another at lafenwa market.

• Another reason I so much love lafenwa market is that the market is very secured and they have not been traces of theft whatsoever.

The reason why many are scared to threaten the security of lafenwa market is because the vigilante in lafenwa market believe so much in jungle justice, they seldomly wait for the arrival of police before passing their judgement.

• As i earlier said, lafenwa market has a lot of friendly traders, some of my friends even sell at lafenwa market to support their parents.

And at such, I love going to lafenwa market, it makes me happy to gist with lots of my friends.

Indeed, there are lots of advantages attached to going to lafenwa market.

I appreciate the host of this contest for initiating such a wonderful contest as this.

Thank you for going through my post, I invite @starrchris @ogwo @fredquantum to this contest

All images were taken with my mobile device and from google map, except otherwise referenced.