Sasmal Rice Store

Sasmal Rice Store is a local shop in Dehla Panchpipli. We are situated very close to the Police Thana, which makes it easy for people to give directions to our place. Unlike the big mills, we focus more on the retail and storage side of things. We have a lot of different varieties of rice sitting in big open sacks so customers can see what they are buying. The floor is usually covered in a thin layer of grain because things get spilled during the day. We try to keep it clean, but it is a losing battle sometimes. The store is not very big, and it gets cramped when more than three or four people are inside at once. We know most of the people who come in by their first names. They live in the neighborhood and stop by for their weekly supply. We do not have any fancy displays or bright lights. It is just shelves and stacks of bags. Sometimes the delivery truck blocks the road for a bit while we are unloading, and the neighbors complain, but we try to be quick. We have been in Dehla Panchpipli for a long time now. It is a quiet life for the most part, just weighing out rice and chatting with the locals about the weather or the price of crops. We do not try to be anything we are not. We are just a rice store.