Merchants closed their shops, and Afghans ran from their offices.
Merchants closed their shops, banks suspended business, and workers went on strike to pressure the government.
Anger spread to Tehran's grand bazaar, where many merchants closed their stores.
Today, in a protest aimed at sending a message to Caracas, landowners and merchants closed businesses and blocked roads.
"With Merchants closing, you will see less money to people who need it, and the flows that do go through will be going underground and become much more vulnerable to criminal networks," said Scott Paul, an Oxfam senior policy advisor.
The increasing maritimity of the Swahili was thus crucial to structuring their cosmopolitan status a status aimed at both drawing visiting merchants closer and distinguishing themselves from other coastal and hinterland peoples.
Steven Gaines, who operates a Web site called ihamptons.com and is the author of a best-selling book about Hamptons status-seeking called "Philistines at the Hedgerow," feels a sense of loss each time a local merchant closes for the last time.
The merchant closes the transaction loop by swiping the DigiMo card into the existing POS reader which rides the rest of the transaction on the regular card network and authenticates at DigiMo's server and debits the customer's account.
Canny Chinese merchants followed close behind.
According to the company, payments in instalments allows merchants to close more sales and sell more high ticket products.
