Sharma Gernal Store

The shop is here at F-160/256 in Sahibabad, right in the Shaheed Nagar area of Ghaziabad. We’ve been running Sharma Gernal Store for a good while now. It’s just a small place, nothing too fancy to look at from the outside or inside really. Most mornings start early, usually around seven when we roll up the shutters. The air in Ghaziabad is always a bit dusty, especially around here. We spend a lot of time just wiping down the counters and organizing the packets of biscuits and soaps that come in. People from the neighborhood stop by all day long. Some just want a single pen or a pouch of milk, while others come with long lists. We try to keep everything someone might need in a hurry. The shelves are pretty crowded, and sometimes it takes a minute to find where we put the smaller things like matchboxes or needles. It gets quite hot in the afternoons, so we sit under the fan and wait for the evening rush when people are coming back from work. There’s always someone talking about the traffic on the main road or the weather. It’s just a normal life running a store here. We don't have fancy lights or big displays, just the usual stuff stacked up. Sometimes the delivery truck is late and we have to tell people to come back tomorrow. That's just how it goes at our spot in Sahibabad.