Yu Shuen-der, an associate research fellow with the Academia Sinica ’ s Institute of Ethnology, says that night markets expanded in conjunction with the explosive growth of Taiwan ’ s small, labor-intensive- manufacturers in the 1960s. When the global oil crisis and economic slump of the mid-1970s struck a double blow to small exporters, who suffered reduced orders and increased merchandise returns, night markets became distribution centers for wholesale and inexpensive goods.
中研院民族所副研究員余舜德指出，1960 年代，夜市隨著台灣勞力密集、小型資本為主的製造業蓬勃而快速成長；1970 年代中期，全球石油危機、經濟蕭條，不少小企業遭遇出口訂單退貨的危機，又讓夜市成為批發貨及低價品的銷售中心。