Shoe Box

Our business is tucked away in the Bharat Industrial Estate in Sewree West. We are in Unit B-2 on T.J. Road. It’s a busy industrial area with lots of trucks and workers moving around. We deal with shoes, mostly keeping stock and handling orders from here. The unit is basically a large room filled with shelves of boxes. You can smell the leather and glue when you walk in. It’s not a retail shop where people come to browse, it’s more of a distribution point. We spend a lot of time counting inventory and packing boxes for delivery. The lift in the building is sometimes slow, so we end up carrying things ourselves up and down. It’s a bit of a workout. We have a small desk in the corner for the computer and phone. We’ve been in this estate for several years now. It’s a good location because it’s close to the main transport routes. We don't have a fancy showroom, just rows and rows of shoes. It's a straightforward operation and we like keeping it that way. Sometimes the ceiling leaks a little when it rains heavily, but we move the boxes out of the way. We focus on getting the orders out correctly every single day. We know the security guards and the other tenants in the building pretty well.