Rohilla General Store

You can find our shop at 1156/31 in Laxman Vihar. This is just a basic general store where we sell daily necessities for the home. We have got the usual stuff like lentils, flour, spices, and household cleaners. The store is not very large, so we have to stack the bags and boxes pretty high to fit everything in. It is a family-run kind of place, so you will usually see one of us sitting at the front near the big bags of rice. We open up early to catch the people heading to work and we do not close until the street finally gets quiet at night. The neighborhood is mostly residential, so we know most of our customers by their names. Sometimes kids come in for candy or chips after school, and that is usually the busiest time of the afternoon for us. We do not have a fancy billing system or anything like that. We just use a small calculator and give change from the old wooden drawer. The floor is made of simple concrete and we spend a lot of time sweeping out the dust that blows in from the road. It is not a polished or modern store, but we keep all the essentials in stock so people don't have to go far. If we run out of something, we just write it down on a piece of cardboard so we remember to tell the distributor next time. It is just a regular part of life in Laxman Vihar.