Laxmi Provision Stores

If you walk down Sola Road near the Ghorpadi Naranpura area, you’ll find Laxmi Provision Stores. It’s a basic shop where we keep everything people need for their kitchens. We have big sacks of grains sitting near the front and shelves stacked high with spices and oils. It gets pretty crowded in here on Sunday mornings when everyone is doing their weekly shopping. We don't have a computer system for everything, so we still write a lot of things down in our ledger books. My hands usually smell like coriander or turmeric by the end of the day. We’ve been in this spot for a long time, and the building is starting to show its age a bit, but it works for us. The Ghorpadi area is quite lively, and we like being right in the middle of it. We don’t do deliveries with a fancy truck; if someone lives close by, we might just carry it over for them if we aren't too busy. Sometimes the stock doesn't arrive on time, and we have to tell our regulars to come back tomorrow. It’s a simple life running a store like this. We aren't looking to expand or become some huge supermarket. We just want to make sure the pulses are clean and the sugar is dry. It’s just us here, making sure the local families have what they need to cook their meals every day.