Pawan Hardware Stores

Pawan Hardware Stores is located right in the middle of Vill- Saili. It’s not a very big shop, but we try to cram in as much as we can on the shelves for the villagers. You’ll find nails, hammers, some plumbing pipes, and bags of cement stacked in the corner. Saili is a small village, so we know almost everyone who walks through the door by name. Usually, people come in because something broke at home or they are finally finishing that extra room they started last year. We don't have a computer to scan things; we just know where everything is kept, even if it looks a bit cluttered to an outsider. Sometimes we run out of a certain size of bolt or a specific paint color, and we have to tell people to wait until the next delivery comes in from the city. It can be a bit slow some days, especially during the harvest when everyone is out in the fields working. We just sit on the bench outside and wait for customers to stop by. We don’t do any big promotions. We just open the shutters in the morning and close them when it gets dark. It’s a simple way to make a living. We enjoy the talk and the gossip that comes with being a village shop. It’s more about the people than the actual hardware sometimes. We just keep things going one day at a time.