Pk Shaw General Store

If you are walking along B B Chatterjee Road in Kolkata, you will find Pk Shaw General Store right there. It has been in this spot for quite a while. The shop is small and packed with everything from biscuits to light bulbs. We don't really have a big staff, just us working the counter every day. Kolkata can get very humid, so the shop usually has a fan running full speed. We get a lot of locals who live in the apartments nearby. They come in for their daily needs. Sometimes the delivery trucks block the narrow road when they drop off sacks of rice or crates of cold drinks. It gets noisy. We try to keep things organized but sometimes things get shuffled around on the shelves. It’s a bit dusty in the corners because there’s always movement. We don’t do any big advertising. People just know we are here at number one. We talk about the weather or the local news while weighing out pulses. It is a simple life running a general store. You see the same faces every morning and evening. We might not have every single brand, but we have the basics that keep a kitchen running. The metal shutters go up at dawn and we close when the street gets quiet at night. It is just how things go around here for us.