Agarwal Fancy & General Store

At Agarwal Fancy & General Store, we try to keep a bit of everything. We are on the Main Road in the Dadabari Vistar Yojna area of Kota. One side of the shop is what we call the 'fancy' section, where we keep things like bangles, ribbons, and small items for the ladies in the colony. The other side is the general store part with pulses, sugar, and soaps. It’s a lot to manage, and the shop is quite deep with high shelves. I have to use a long wooden pole with a hook on the end to reach the boxes at the very top. Kota is a busy city, and there is always dust coming in from the road, so we spend a lot of time cleaning. I don't have a computer for billing; I just use a calculator and a small notebook to keep track of what people owe. Many of our customers have been coming here for years, so we talk about their families while I pack their bags. We don't have any flashy lights or big promotions. It’s just a neighborhood shop where you can find the small things you forgot to buy at the big market. The ceiling fan wobbles a bit and makes a clicking sound, but it keeps the air moving during the hot afternoons. We just do our work and go home when the sun sets.