Mahadev General Store

Mahadev General Store is what we call our shop. It is on the first floor of the Someshwar Shopping Centre. This is right on Varachha Road in the Hira Baug area of Surat. If you know where Baroda Pristage is, we are directly opposite that. The 395006 area gets quite crowded, especially with the traffic on Varachha Road. Being in a shopping centre means there are always people walking past. We’ve got the usual things a general store would have. It’s a first-floor shop, so you have to come up the stairs from the main road level. We spend a lot of time arranging things on the shelves and talking to the regular customers who come in from the nearby buildings. Surat is a fast city, but we just do our own thing here. The shop isn't huge, so things can get a bit cramped when the supply trucks come. We handle the daily items people need for their homes. It's a simple life running a store like this. There’s always dust from the road that we have to wipe off the counters. We don't have a big marketing plan or anything like that. We just open the doors and wait for the neighbors to stop by. Sometimes it’s quiet, other times everyone comes at once. We just manage it as it happens. It’s a basic, local general store for anyone in Hira Baug needing their daily supplies.