Sri Krishna Sai Rice Oil And General Merchant

Sri Krishna Sai Rice Oil And General Merchant is tucked away at 4-4-890 in the Agraharam area. The shop is mostly filled with large sacks of rice and containers of oil. You can smell the grain as soon as you step inside. It’s a practical place, meant for people who need to stock up their kitchens. We spend most of our day weighing out portions and tying up bags with twine. The floor is usually covered in a bit of rice dust, no matter how much we sweep. It’s just the nature of the business. We keep a ledger on the wooden counter to track what comes in and what goes out. The building is old, with high ceilings that help keep it a bit cooler when the sun is hitting the Agraharam streets. We don’t do any fancy packaging; we just give you what you need in plain bags. Sometimes the neighbors come in just to sit on the bench for a minute and escape the heat. We’ve known the families around here for generations. If a delivery is late, we just tell people to come back in the afternoon. It’s not a fast-paced environment, but we stay steady. We don't have a computer system, just our eyes and our scales. Everything is done by hand, from stacking the heavy bags to counting the change. It’s hard work, but it’s what we know how to do.