Patel Store

Patel Store is our family business located at 16 Saibaba Society on VIP Road in Karelibaug, Vadodara. We are quite close to Wagheshwari Society too, so we get people from both sides coming in. Being in the 390018 area, it’s mostly local families who shop with us. We’ve been at this spot for years. The shop is full of all kinds of things you’d need for your home, from soaps and detergents to various types of grains and spices. I usually handle the counter myself, and I’ve gotten to know a lot of the families in Saibaba Society over the years. It’s not a fancy place with air conditioning or anything. We just have a couple of ceiling fans and rows of wooden shelves. Sometimes the inventory gets a bit much and we have to stack bags of rice on the floor, which makes the shop feel a bit small. Karelibaug is a nice, steady neighborhood to be in. We open up pretty early because that’s when the milk and bread deliveries come. I like the routine of it all. Most days are pretty much the same, which is fine by me. We don’t use any corporate talk or have big plans for expanding. We just want to keep the shop running well and make sure our neighbors can find what they need. If we don’t have something, I usually try to get it in for the next time someone asks us for it.