Wakeel General Store

If you go to the Ghanta Ghar area in Ghaziabad, you will find Wakeel General Store at number 122. This is a very old and crowded part of the city. The noise from the traffic and the horns is something we hear all day long. Our shop is right in the middle of all that action at Ghantaa Gharr. We have been here at 122 for a long time, and the shop is packed with all kinds of household items. We have everything from laundry soap to bags of flour. The space is a bit tight, so we have to use a ladder to reach the things on the higher shelves. We don't have any staff helping us, it is just family members working together. We take turns to eat lunch in the back while the other stays at the counter. The customers are mostly locals who have been coming to us for years. They like to chat for a bit before they pay. It is a very traditional way of doing things. We don't use computers for the bills, we just calculate it in our heads or on a small piece of paper. Ghaziabad can be very dusty, so we spend a lot of time wiping the counters. We open the doors early in the morning and don't close until late at night. The address 122, Ghanta Ghar is easy to find because everyone knows the big clock tower nearby.