United Cottage Industries Emporium

United Cottage Industries Emporium is located at No.139 in the Kalpatharu Super Bazar on Infantary Road. We’ve been in this spot for a long time. It’s a retail space, but it’s more about the cottage industries we represent. We have all sorts of stuff packed into the shelves. It’s not the most organized place in the world, but if you look around, you’ll find some interesting things. We get our stock from various small-scale makers who don't have their own shops. It’s a bit of a mix of everything. The staff here is just a few of us who know the inventory. We don't do big advertising campaigns or anything like that. People usually find us because they’re already in the Kalpatharu Super Bazar or they’ve heard about us from a neighbor. Infantary Road gets quite busy, so we have people dropping in all day. We spend a lot of time just dusting things and reorganizing the displays when we get new items in. We don't have a philosophy or anything corporate like that. We just sell products made by regular people. Some days are slow and we just sit and talk, and other days we can barely keep up with the customers. It’s just a normal shop trying to do right by the people who make the goods. We’ve been here for years and hope to stay.