The sale by auction the is the operation by which a salesman challenges of sharp voice the prospective customers by descriptions or Prix advantageous of the goods to be sold.

Today

• the wholesalers fishmongers buy usually their goods on a professional Marché where the sale by auction is computerized.

• With the Netherlands and in Belgium the sale of fruit and vegetables are carried out by the sale by auction.
• In Wallonia, only still shouted in activity markets famous the Fraises of Wépion.
• In the African big cities, the sale by auction of newspapers is done with red light, or then by ground on the pavement.

Formerly

One sold formerly the newspapers with shouted. At the great time of the newspapers, the daily newspapers employed young boys who on the pavements of the European big cities, protested the One of the newspaper. The customers came to him to buy one of them.

At the XIXe century, the pews were sold with shouted, which provided an important source of revenue to the manufactures S parochial.