Traditional markets are a meeting place for sellers and buyers in the presence of direct sale and purchase transactions and there is usually a bargaining process,

the building usually consists of kiosks or outlets, stalls and open bases opened by the seller or a market manager.

The selling price of everyday items such as food ingredients, fish, fruit, vegetables, eggs, meat, cloth, clothing electronic goods, services and others. From the institutional side, the different characteristics of the management of modern markets and traditional markets are apparent from the management institutions.

In the traditional market, the institutional manager of the building by the Office of Market which is part of the bureaucratic system. While the modern market, commonly managed by professionals with a business approach. In addition, the system respectively.

While in modern systems, more centralized management system that allows the management of its parent. Traditional markets are still able to survive and compete in the midst of modern market invasion in various forms.