Sai Leela Stores

Sai Leela Stores is at 4-523-96 on Maharanipeta Road. It’s a neighborhood shop where we try to keep a bit of everything on hand. The shelves are packed pretty tight, so you have to look closely to find what you’re after. We’ve been at this location for a good while, and the floor has those worn spots where people stand the most. It’s a family-run kind of thing, so you’ll often see one of us behind the counter while someone else is in the back moving stock. We don't have any fancy barcode scanners; we just know the prices or look at the little stickers. Maharanipeta Road is always busy, and we get a lot of foot traffic from people heading home from work. It can get a bit cramped when more than three or four people are inside at once. We don't do any big sales or advertisements in the paper. We just rely on the fact that we’ve been here and people know we’re honest. Sometimes we run out of things, but we try to get them back in as soon as the delivery truck shows up. It’s a simple life, running a store. We talk to the neighbors, hear the local news, and keep the doors open from morning until late. There’s nothing corporate about it. It’s just our store on Maharanipeta Road, and we’re happy with that.