Kumar & Sons Kirana Store

Kumar & Sons Kirana Store has been at 3-6-95 on Sd Road for a long time. We’re right in Kalasiguda, and most of the families around here have been coming to us for their daily needs for years. It’s a family-run kind of place. You’ll usually find one of the sons or the father behind the counter. The shop is filled from floor to ceiling with sacks of rice, pulses, and all kinds of household goods. It can be a bit cramped when there are more than three people inside, but we manage. We know most of our customers by name, which makes the day go by a lot faster. We don't have any of those fancy computerized systems; we mostly still use a notebook to jot things down if someone needs to pay later. The street outside, Sd Road, is almost always noisy with traffic and people walking by. It’s just the way it is in Kalasiguda. We spend a lot of time weighing out items and bagging them up. Sometimes we run out of something, and we have to wait for the next delivery truck, but people are usually patient. We aren't trying to compete with the big malls. We just provide a local service for the neighborhood. It’s a simple, honest way to make a living, and we’ve been doing it this way for a generation.