In practically any country in the world, you are (1) ______ to find a market somewhere. Markets have been with us since (2) ______ times, and arose wherever people need to exchange the goods they produced. For example, a farmer might have exchanged a cow for tools. But just as times have (3) ______, so have markets practices.

So, (4) ______ in early times the main activity (5) ______ with markets would have been ‘bartering’- in (6) ______ words exchanging goods – today most stall holders wouldn’t be too (7) ______ on accepting potatoes as payment, for instance, instead of cash.

In contrast, what might be a common (8) ______ in a modern market in some countries is a certain amount of ‘haggling’, where customer and seller eventually (9) ______ on a price, after what sometimes be quite a heated debate. However, behavior which is expected in a market in one country may not be acceptable in another. Even within one country, there may be some markets where you could haggle quite (10) ______ and others where it would be advisable not to try.