Jai Sheetla Maa Kirana

This kirana store is located in Suryanagar, Morar, right near SLP College. We are also close to Pragati Vidya Peeth. Being near the schools and colleges means we see a lot of students. They usually come in for snacks or notebooks. The rest of our customers are families living in the Suryanagar area. We stock all the basics like flour, sugar, and oils. It’s a family-run place. I sit at the front and my sons help with the heavy lifting of the sacks. The shop is quite full, with bags of grain sitting on the floor. It’s not a fancy setup. We have old metal scales that we still use sometimes. Gwalior gets very cold in the winter, so we huddle near a small heater inside. In the summer, it's the opposite. We know most people around here by their faces. They don't even have to tell us what they want sometimes, we just know. We don't have a delivery bike, so people have to carry their own bags home. It’s a traditional way of running a shop, and it has worked for us for years. We just try to keep the prices fair and the shelves stocked. There’s no big mystery to it. We open the shutters every morning and see what the day brings. Sometimes the college boys come in just for change for the bus. We help them out if we can.