Shivanand Kirana And General Store

You’ll find Shivanand Kirana And General Store at Shop No 2 on Lam Road in the Nashik Road area. We are very close to Vaibhav Missal, so if you know where that is, you’ve basically found us. Nashik is a nice place to live, and the air here on Lam Road is usually a bit better than in the center of the city. We start our day early, usually before the sun is fully up, to get everything ready for the morning milk run. Our shop is simple. We have the usual stacks of grains, soaps, snacks, and whatever else a household might run out of. There’s a bit of a draft that comes through the front door, which is nice in the summer. We don’t have fancy displays or bright neon lights. It’s just a counter, some shelves, and us. We do most of the heavy lifting ourselves, moving bags of sugar and flour around. Sometimes the missal place next door gets so crowded that people end up waiting in front of our shop, and we end up chatting with them while they wait for their table. It’s a quiet kind of business. We don’t have a lot of staff, just family members helping out when things get busy in the evening. We keep a ledger for the regular customers who pay at the end of the month. It's a very traditional way of doing things, but it works for us here.