Agarwal Store

Agarwal Store is right in the middle of the chaos in Fancy Bazar, Guwahati. We are near the HDFC Bank ATM, which is actually a good landmark because this area gets so crowded you can easily lose your way. The shop isn’t huge, but we pack a lot into it. We’ve been here in Kamrup district for a long time. Every morning we open up the shutters and start moving boxes around to make space for customers. It’s a busy spot. You get all sorts of people walking in, looking for this or that. Sometimes it gets a bit loud with the traffic outside and people haggling nearby. We don’t have fancy displays or air conditioning that works all the time. It’s just shelves full of stock and a counter where we do the billing. Most of the regulars know us by name. We spend a lot of our day just checking what’s running low and ordering more. It’s a simple retail life. Sometimes the rain makes things difficult because the street outside gets messy, but we just keep the doors open. We don't really have a website or anything like that; people just know where we are. If you need something, you just come by and ask. It’s been the same routine for years, and we’re quite used to the pace of the market. We take breaks when we can and try to keep things organized despite the limited space.