Portugal has a variety of mobile shops, servicing rural communities. These shops provide a valuable service and ensure no one has to go without their daily loaf.

Not all inhabitants of rural communities have cars or their own transport and mobile shops ensure if they run out of any essential item during the week a long bus trip into town is not necessary. Most communities are serviced by bakers, fishmongers, grocers and butchers and their arrival is heralded by a loud and continuous honking of their horns.