Raj General Stores

Raj General Stores is right in Malviya Nagar, at Central Market No. 6. It is a busy little shop and we have been here for a long time. Every morning starts the same way, with the milk crates arriving and us trying to fit everything onto the shelves. It is a small space, so we have to use every inch of the walls. We have everything from soap to snacks piled up high. The Central Market is always full of people, especially in the evenings when everyone comes out to buy things for dinner. We know most of the families who live around here. You see the kids grow up and then they start coming in to buy their own stuff. It is a nice feeling, being part of the neighborhood like that. The shop can get a bit messy when we are unpacking new stock, and there is usually a bit of dust on the top shelves that we cannot reach easily. We don’t have any fancy computers for billing; we just do it the old-fashioned way. It works for us. Sometimes the street outside gets so blocked with cars that we cannot even see across the road. But that is just life in Malviya Nagar. We keep the doors open from early morning until late at night. It is a lot of standing around and talking to people, but we would not have it any other way.