Shree Jay Ambe Store

If you walk down Bhandari Street toward Matrawadi, you’ll find us at number 4. We’ve been running Shree Jay Ambe Store right here on Swami Vivekanand Road for years. It’s a tight spot, but we’ve managed to fit everything a person might need on the shelves. The traffic on SV Road is something else, you can hear the horns honking from early morning until late at night. Our store is right in the thick of it. We spend a lot of time moving bags around and organizing the jars on the counter so customers can see what’s available. It’s a family-run thing, so there’s usually one of us sitting on the stool by the entrance, watching the world go by on Bhandari Street. We don't have a computer system or anything like that; we just write things down in a notebook and keep track of the stock by looking at the shelves. The walls could probably use a fresh coat of paint, and the ceiling fan makes a bit of a clicking noise, but it works fine for us. People from the Matrawadi area come in for their daily bits and pieces, and we know most of them by name. It’s not a big supermarket, just a small store where you can get what you need and have a quick talk. We just focus on keeping the doors open and making sure the inventory is decent for the folks in the neighborhood.