Indeed, on the streets, many Venezuelans who earn their living selling from sidewalk stalls said they would be working Monday.

Many pilgrims have opted to stay inside their hotel rooms or to not come at all, while merchants have shut down sidewalk stalls where they sold Shiite religious souvenirs.

Elevated trains rumble by as people squeeze past a 200-yard line of sidewalk stalls.

The shops are mostly makeshift sidewalk stalls, but they display a huge variety of clothing, shoes, household wares, toys and electronic products.

In the poor neighborhoods where Mr. Chávez gets most of his support, street vendors sold from sidewalk stalls, and shop owners opened their doors.

He glanced at her face as they approached a small square where shopkeepers were already setting out sidewalk stalls of fruit and vegetables.

Others requested specific knockoffs and bargain-priced goods I would find while tramping through the jungle of stores and sidewalk stalls.

His employees arrive about midnight to display the shrimp in sidewalk stalls.

By contrast with everything else along this tacky street of discount shops, sidewalk stalls and fast-food restaurants, now cleaned up as if nothing ever happened, the preserved shrine is a shock.

Here were fewer sidewalk stalls, but a fascinating blend of smells: roast meats, fresh bread, ale, wine, spices.