Shri Sakthi Traders

Shri Sakthi Traders is over on Sullivan Street. It’s a bit of a funny spot because the numbers changed at some point, so we have New No-221 and Old No-312 painted on the front. People still get confused sometimes and ask if they are in the right place even when they are standing right there. We are located right opposite the Raghavendra Temple, so we hear the morning prayers and the bells ringing every single day. It’s a busy part of the street, especially when there’s a festival going on and the crowd gets thick. Inside the shop, things are stacked pretty high towards the roof. We deal with trading all sorts of stuff, and the floor is usually covered with wooden pallets and bits of plastic wrapping. The fans hum all afternoon trying to keep the place cool, but it stays pretty warm anyway. I sit at the small wooden desk near the entrance to keep an eye on what's happening on the street. You see everyone walking by to the temple from there. My hands are usually a bit dirty from moving the stock around, but that is just how the work is here. We don’t have any fancy displays or anything like that. Just the items we trade, piled up wherever they will fit. Sometimes the delivery trucks have a hard time parking because the road is narrow, so we have to hurry and unload things before they block the whole street.