Close Encounters.
Enough for some food and cigarettes.

Urban centres across the country are besieged by such panhandlers in the warmer months, who often resort to soliciting money from strangers out of necessity because of homelessness or other desperate circumstances.

successful in getting you to part with your money? It's all in the pitch, according to Ashwin Joshi, professor of marketing at York University's Schulich School of Business.

In the context of what is one of  life's unfortunate situations, in this case, living on the streets, the underlying principles of marketing are the same. You still need to capture people's interest and attention in a way that stimulates action, that is the giving of money.

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Street shot, Toronto, Canada.
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