Bala Jee General Store

Bala Jee General Store is right on Hoshangabad Road in Bhopal, near the Bajaj showroom. If you are in Danish Nagar, you probably have passed our front door many times. It is a basic general store where we keep all the things a family needs for their house. We have bags of rice, lentils, and different types of spices stacked up on the wooden racks. The road outside is always loud with traffic, so it’s never really quiet inside the shop. We spend our days checking the inventory and writing down what we need to order from the distributors for next week. Sometimes the supply trucks are late and we have to tell people to come back later. It’s just part of how things go here. We don't have a big team, it's mostly just us handling the customers and the daily accounts. The shop isn't very large, so we have to use every inch of space, even stacking boxes near the ceiling. It gets quite dusty because of the main road, so cleaning is a task that never really ends. We see a lot of office workers and residents from the nearby apartments. They usually want something quick like a bottle of water or a snack on their way home. We try to keep the common things right at the front where they can see them. It’s a simple way to make a living and we’ve been doing it for years now.