V K Stores

If you have ever been to Crawford Market, you know how crowded it gets. We are in shop number 46, 468, and 469. It’s a bit of a maze in here sometimes, but once you find us, you’ll see we have a lot of stuff packed into the space. We’ve been part of this market for a long time. It’s a noisy place with people shouting and carts moving through the narrow aisles. We spend our days helping customers find what they need among all the items on our shelves. It is hard to keep everything perfectly tidy when people are constantly picking things up and putting them back. We just do our best to stay organized. Lunch usually happens quickly behind the counter because there is always someone coming in. We know the other shopkeepers around us, and we look out for each other. It’s a real community in Crawford Market. We don’t use any special tricks to get people in. People come here because they know the market and they know where to find us. It’s a simple way of doing business, the same way it has been for years. We just open the shutters in the morning and stay until the market starts to quiet down in the evening. It is a lot of standing and talking, but we have been doing it so long we don't know anything else.