Naik Shopping Center

Don’t let the name "Shopping Center" fool you. We are a local shop on Jalgaon Road in the Hudco area of Aurangabad. We are very close to the State Bank ATM in Deep Nagar, so we get a lot of people who just finished getting cash and need to buy something on their way home. The road outside is usually busy with people heading towards Jalgaon, so it can be a bit noisy. Inside, we have everything from notebooks for the school kids to large containers of cooking oil. It’s a bit of a mix. We try to keep things where people can see them, but it gets crowded. We’ve been here at N 11 for a while, and the neighborhood has changed around us. We still do things the old way, writing down prices and bagging things by hand. The shop is a place where people stop for a minute to escape the sun. We don't have any big marketing plans. We just make sure we have enough stock of the things people use every day. It’s hard work, especially when the big deliveries come and we have to haul everything inside ourselves. But it’s good to be a spot where the local people feel comfortable coming in for their small daily needs without feeling like they are in a big, cold store.