On a recent trip to Macedonia, I encountered something I had never seen before in my nearly 28 years of being in and with Macedonia: a group of five young boys, maybe 10, 11 years old, had set up a “lemonade stand” on a sidewalk in the Karpos neighborhood of Skopje and were selling drinks, namely some type of berry juice and water. I call it a “lemonade stand” because that is a phrase familiar to many; a makeshift (or “pop-up” as they call it these days) “shop” to sell a product and earn money. Their “shop” consisted of three wooden pallets serving as a front and sides, with the kids behind the “counter,” a wooden plank between the pallets, on which their products were placed. On either side of their makeshift shop, were handwritten signs on cardboard in both Macedonian and English, with their product offerings and prices as well as the name of their shop: A-Food. They even had a logo to go with the name. Clever lads.
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A “lemonade stand” in Skopje
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On a recent trip to Macedonia, I encountered something I had never seen before in my nearly 28 years of being in and with Macedonia: a group of five young boys, maybe 10, 11 years old, had set up a “lemonade stand” on a sidewalk in the Karpos neighborhood of Skopje and were selling drinks, namely some type of berry juice and water. I call it a “lemonade stand” because that is a phrase familiar to many; a makeshift (or “pop-up” as they call it these days) “shop” to sell a product and earn money. Their “shop” consisted of three wooden pallets serving as a front and sides, with the kids behind the “counter,” a wooden plank between the pallets, on which their products were placed. On either side of their makeshift shop, were handwritten signs on cardboard in both Macedonian and English, with their product offerings and prices as well as the name of their shop: A-Food. They even had a logo to go with the name. Clever lads.