Vijayalaksmi Traders

Vijayalaksmi Traders is located at 219 Sante Maidana Road. It’s a simple trading business. We spend our time buying and selling various goods that people need. The building isn't much to look at, just a functional space with enough room for storage. We’ve been on this road for quite some time. The traffic can be a headache during the market days, but it brings people in. We don't spend money on big advertisements. Word of mouth seems to work okay for us. My brother handles the accounts and I look after the stock coming in. Sometimes we get a bit behind on the filing, but we catch up eventually. The back room is always full of boxes. We try to keep a variety of things so people don't have to go to five different places. It’s a lot of lifting and moving stuff around. By the end of the day, we're usually pretty tired. We close up and head home, then do it all over again the next morning. It’s a steady rhythm. We aren't trying to be the biggest, just trying to keep the business running and our customers coming back. The desk in the corner is wobbly, so we put a piece of folded cardboard under one leg. It’s been like that for three years now. It’s just part of the shop’s character, I suppose. We like it here.