Dhanlaxmi Medical & General Stores

We have our shop, Dhanlaxmi Medical & General Stores, at 1 Pimpri Municipal Corporation Market in Ajmera. Being inside the municipal market means we are right in the middle of all the action. There are vegetable sellers, clothes stalls, and people everywhere. It’s a noisy and lively place to work every day. Our store has a bit of everything, from medicines to general household items. We keep the shelves as full as we can. It’s a lot of work tracking the stock and making sure we don’t run out of the basics. We start early, around the same time the market opens up. You get to know the other shopkeepers around you. We share tea and complain about the heat together. Customers come in looking for all sorts of things, and we do our best to find what they need in our stacks. The aisles are a bit narrow because we try to fit so much in. It’s not a fancy supermarket, just a regular local store. We’ve seen kids grow up and start coming in on their own. It’s that kind of neighborhood. We just keep the doors open and wait for the next person to walk in. It’s a good way to stay connected to the Pimpri community. By the time we pull the shutters down, we’re tired, but it's a good kind of tired because we helped our neighbors out. That's the way it's been for years.