Prem Rice Store

Down here at Prem Rice Store, things stay pretty busy most mornings. We are located at 58/12 in Dastikoppa, which is part of Kalghatgi. It’s a small shop, mostly filled with different kinds of rice in big sacks. We spend our days weighing out portions for neighbors and folks passing through. The smell of raw rice is something you just get used to after a while. It’s a bit cramped inside because we try to keep a good variety, so there isn’t much room to move around once a few customers are in. We’ve been at this spot for some time now. My hands are usually a bit dusty from handling the grains, but that’s part of the job. We don’t have a website or anything, just the shop front where people can see what we have. Sometimes the delivery trucks have a hard time navigating the narrow bits around Dastikoppa, but we manage to get the stock in. It’s a simple life, really. We open up early because that’s when people like to do their shopping before it gets too hot. We chat with whoever comes in, mostly about the weather or how the local crops are doing. There’s no big corporate plan here, just a local store trying to keep the bins full. We take pride in just being reliable for the people around Kalghatgi who need their daily staple. It’s not much, but it’s what we do and it feels right to us.