Four Care Medical & General Store

Our store is called Four Care Medical & General Store. We are in the Vishnu Krupa Building on Mahant Road in Vile Parle East. Mumbai is always moving fast, and this neighborhood is no different. We stay quite busy because we sell both medicines and general items. People come in for their prescriptions and then end up buying some bread or eggs too. It saves them a trip to another shop. We have been in this building for quite some time. The space is small, like most shops in Mumbai, but we use every inch of the walls for shelving. Sometimes it feels a bit crowded when four or five people come in at once. We know many of the families who live in the apartments around here. They stop by on their way to the station or when they are coming back home. We try to keep the most common medicines in stock at all times. If something is not there, we usually get it by the next day. It’s a lot of standing around and talking to people about their health or just the weather. We don't have any big marketing plans. We just open the shutters every morning and wait for the customers to come. It’s a reliable little spot for the locals. We stay open pretty late because you never know when someone might need something urgently in the middle of the night. That is basically how we operate here every single day.