Maa Keladevi General Store

You can find us in the Choori Market area of Hajira in Gwalior. Maa Keladevi General Store is our small business where we try to provide all the daily essentials for the families living around here. Since we are in the bangle market, there are always a lot of people walking past the shop. We keep a good stock of the basic things like cooking oils, soaps, spices, and pulses. The shop is quite simple, and we have built the wooden racks ourselves to hold the jars and packets. It isn't a very large space, so we have to use every inch of the walls, right up to the ceiling. We use a ladder to reach the stuff on the top shelves when someone asks for a specific brand of detergent or a large pack of tea. Gwalior can get very cold in the winter and very hot in the summer, so we just adjust as the seasons change. We know most of our customers by face because they have been coming to us for years. There is no corporate feeling here; it is just us behind the counter, weighing out sugar or counting change. Sometimes we have tea brought in from the stall nearby and share a quick word with the other shopkeepers. It is a local life, and we are just happy to be a part of the Choori Market community, keeping things simple and honest for everyone who walks in.