Swami Stores

Swami Stores is sitting right on Dr Rajkumar Road in the Koregaon Park area. The pin code here is 41308 and it is actually a pretty nice spot with all the big trees hanging over the road. We open up the shutters pretty early in the morning and start moving things around to get ready. It is a very basic general store where you can find almost anything you might need for your kitchen or house. We have rows and rows of stuff packed onto the wooden shelves. Sometimes it gets a bit hard to find one specific thing if a new shipment just came in and we haven't put it away yet. Customers from all around the neighborhood stop by throughout the day. Some of them we have known by their first names for years. We don't have a big staff or a corporate team. It is just a few of us making sure the milk is cold and the bread is fresh. The floor is made of these old grey tiles that have seen a lot of feet. We keep a small table fan going near the billing counter because it gets stuffy inside. Dr Rajkumar Road gets really busy in the evenings when everyone is heading home from work. We stay open until it gets quite dark outside. It is a simple life running Swami Stores. We don't bother with any big ads or posters. People just know we are here at 41308. It feels like we are just part of the daily routine for people living here.