Monouri partly overlaps with food stalls, peddlers, and stallholders, but differs from them in that monouri does not necessarily use the food stall, that peddlers mainly sell goods to fixed customers by door-to-door sales, and that street vendors do their businesses by occupying their places in bazaar or small-town festivals.
屋台や行商や街商と重複する部分もあるが、行商は固定客に対しての訪問販売が主であり、街商は市や縁日で一所（ひとつところ）で留まって商売する事や物売りが必ずしも屋台ではなかった事から区別する事が出来る。