Bala Ji Karyana Store

Over at the corner of G.T. Road and the 1st Cross of Victoria Road, that’s where you will find Bala Ji Karyana Store. We are a grocery shop, plain and simple. We stock pulses, rice, different kinds of spices, and all the kitchen basics that families around here use. The smell of open spice bags is usually the first thing you notice when you walk through the door. It’s a very strong scent, but I’ve grown to like it over the many years I've spent here. We have big metal bins for the loose grains and smaller jars for everything else like salt and tea. My family has been doing this work for a long time. It’s a lot of physical work, weighing everything out on the scale and bagging it up for the customers. We still use an old manual scale for some things, though we bought a digital one a few years back to make things faster. The street outside is always very loud with the traffic coming off the main road. It can be hard to hear what people are asking for sometimes when a truck goes by. We don't have any extra staff, just me and my brother taking turns sitting at the register. We still keep a paper ledger for the regulars who pay their tab at the end of the month. It's an old-fashioned way of doing things, but it works for our customers. We don't have a website or social media stuff. People just know where we are located.