Vallabh Medical & Provision Store

This shop is right near Vrudavan Char Rasta in the Vrudavan Complex. It’s a main junction here in Waghodia, so there is always a lot of noise from the rickshaws and bikes outside. We have been here for a good while, serving the local neighborhood with both medicines and general provision items. It’s a bit of a mix-and-match shop. You might come in for some medicine but then remember you need stuff for the kitchen too. We try to keep a bit of everything, but space is always a problem because the shop is only so big. The shelves are packed pretty high. Most of my day is spent climbing up and down a small ladder to grab things or checking the expiry dates on the medicine strips. It’s not a quiet place because of the four-way road right outside, but you get used to the honking after a while. We don't really do any advertising. People just know we are here at the Char Rasta. Sometimes we sit outside on a stool when it’s quiet, just watching the traffic go by. It’s a simple business. We don't have any fancy computer systems for everything; a lot of it is still done with pen and paper in our ledger books. It’s just a practical way to run a small shop in a busy area like this without making things too complicated.