Popatlal & Company

You can find our shop at Dakshin Gangotri, number 224, in the Shukrawar Peth area. We are located right in Shinde Ali, very close to the Milan Mangal Karyalaya. This part of the city is always buzzing with people and traffic. We have been operating from this same spot for a very long time. It is a traditional kind of trading business. We stock all sorts of goods that local people and businesses need. Our shelves are packed high with boxes, and sometimes the aisles are a bit narrow to walk through. We don't have a modern website or anything like that. We prefer talking to our customers face-to-face when they come in. The shop can get quite crowded, especially in the mornings. We sit on some old wooden chairs and use a basic calculator to figure out the bills. The noise from the scooters and the street vendors is just part of our daily life here. During the festival seasons, the whole street gets decorated, and it becomes very lively, though a bit hard to move around. We keep the shutters open from early morning until late in the evening. Most of our regular customers have been coming to us for years, and we know many of them by name. We don't bother with big advertisements. In a place like this, word of mouth is what keeps us going. We just keep our stock ready and try to be helpful to whoever walks through the door.