Paswanath Provision Store

Our provision store is located in the Somdutt Flat area on the main road in Vadodara. It’s a handy location for the people living in the flats nearby who don't want to go all the way to the big markets. Paswanath Provision Store is quite small, but we pack a lot into the space we have. We’ve got stacks of flour, different types of dals, and all the usual bathroom supplies. I spend a lot of my day shifting boxes around to find what someone asked for. The main road is always noisy with traffic, and that sound is just the background to our day. We take orders on scraps of paper and pack everything into bags as quickly as we can. Sometimes the deliveries arrive in the middle of a busy afternoon, and the whole shop floor gets covered in crates and sacks. It’s a bit of a struggle to keep everything tidy, but we manage. I’ve known some of our customers since they were children, and now they bring their own kids in. We don’t have a website or anything like that; word of mouth is how people find us. The shop stays open until quite late because that’s when most people have time to shop. It’s a simple life, running a store like this. We just make sure we have the basics in stock and try to be quick with the change. There’s always work to be done.