SSR ? OK, it's probably fair to say that some ? though not all ? people may be prejudiced on ethnic grounds. But how many others, who find the situation irritating purely due to the vendors' behaviour, will have been put off posting freely about it because they're afraid they'll be branded bigots?

As far as I'm concerned, this is strictly about behaviour and not the people per se. I've been in a similar situation before (overbearing vendor/beggar on a route I couldn't avoid) and the person happened to be a white British man.

(And yes, on one level, more fool me for not learning my lesson that time. But I wasn't going to hold the behaviour of one vendor against others. Treat each case on its own merit. That's why, when these people began to sell the magazine outside Sainsbury's I was happy to buy it from them. It's only their subsequent actions that I've had a problem with.)