When a person searches for a place to exchange currencies, either to buy a product in that country since he is a foreigner or to obtain currencies from a country to which he will travel, he regularly looks for one of two things:
Let it be a safe place, I mean, a place with considerable police or private security surveillance.
Let it be a slightly reserved place, where people are not crowded.
All this because <u>the person wants to be sure that their money will not be stolen once they have changed it</u>, so the market is the worst place to carry out this type of transaction: <u>security is minimal (if there is one ) and there are people walking everywhere so that someone sees all the money we have is almost impossible to avoid</u>.