Arnav Departmental Store

We opened up Arnav Departmental Store right here on Khatipura Road because we live nearby and noticed there wasn't a good spot for daily stuff in Jaswant Nagar 74. It’s a standard neighborhood shop really. Every morning starts about the same way, opening the shutters and checking if the milk crates have arrived yet. The space is a bit cramped because we try to fit in as many things as possible, from lentils to those small packets of biscuits kids like. If you walk in, you’ll probably see me or one of the boys stacking bags of flour in the back. The floor gets a bit dusty with people coming in and out all day from the main road. It’s not like those big supermarkets where everything is perfect. Here, if we don’t have something, we usually just tell you to wait a day and we’ll get it. It’s mostly just hard work keeping track of what’s running out. We know most of the families around Jaswant Nagar by their first names now. Sometimes it gets a bit chaotic when three or four people are asking for different things at once. We don't have any fancy displays or anything like that. Just shelves with things people actually need for their kitchens. It’s a simple life running a store on Khatipura Road, but it keeps us busy from dawn till late evening. We like it here in this part of town and we know the neighborhood well.