SHIVA STORESशिवा स्टोअर्स · Buvapada, Ambernath🕕 6.00 a.m. – 11.15 p.m.

Kirana and general store · Buvapada, Bhaskar Nagar, Ambernath (West), Thane — 421501 · Aashirvaad, Sunfeast, Yippee!, Bingo!, B Natural and Classmate kept in stock

Buvapada · Bhaskar Nagar · Ambernath West

Open at six. Still open at eleven.

Shiva Stores is the kirana at the end of the lane in Buvapada — atta, rice, dal and oil, biscuits and cold drinks, soap and agarbatti, and a shelf of Classmate notebooks that does not empty in June. The Aashirvaad, Sunfeast, Yippee!, Bingo! and B Natural ranges are kept in stock rather than ordered when somebody asks.

🛍️ What ITC lines are kept The weekly shop 📍 Find the shop

Buvapada, Bhaskar Nagar, Ambernath (West), Thane — 421501 · Every day, 6.00 a.m. – 11.15 p.m.

Six aisles, and what is on each.

A page each, because somebody arrives looking for one thing — the atta, the notebooks — and should not have to read past the other five.

🌾 Staples & Grains

Atta, rice, dal, sugar, salt, cooking oil and the spices a kitchen runs out of — the weekly shop.See the shelf →

🛍️ ITC Brands

Aashirvaad, Sunfeast, Yippee!, Bingo!, B Natural, Classmate and Mangaldeep — the lines kept in stock all year rather than when somebody asks.See the shelf →

🍪 Biscuits & Snacks

Biscuits, namkeen, wafers, chocolate and toffees — the shelf that empties fastest.See the shelf →

🧃 Beverages

Tea, coffee, packaged juice and cold drinks. The apple juice the directory files us under is real — it is B Natural.See the shelf →

🧹 Household

Detergent, floor cleaner, dish bar, agarbatti and the things you notice only when they run out.See the shelf →

📒 Stationery

Classmate notebooks, pens, pencils and exam-day supplies — kept up all year, not only in June.See the shelf →

What this list is. The lines this shop keeps in stock, not a live count of the shelf and not a price list. Ranges and pack sizes change with what the distributor sends. Ask before making a special trip for one item.

The ITC shelf.

Nine house brands kept in stock all year. A kirana that actually holds a range — rather than ordering it when asked — is making a promise about a wasted trip, and it is the one thing a corner shop can offer that a discount does not.

Atta, salt and spices

Aashirvaad

Whole wheat atta · Multigrain atta · Select atta · Iodised salt · Spices · Svasti ghee

Biscuits

Sunfeast

Marie Light · Dark Fantasy · Mom’s Magic · Bounce · Nice · Milky Magic

Noodles and pasta

Sunfeast Yippee!

Magic Masala noodles · Power Up noodles · Yippee! pasta

Namkeen and wafers

Bingo!

Mad Angles · Tedhe Medhe · Potato chips · Original Style

Packaged juice

B Natural

Apple · Mixed fruit · Orange · Litchi · Guava

Confectionery

Candyman & mint-o

Candyman toffees · Fantastik · mint-o mints · GumOn

All nine brands, and what is on the shelf under each →

What a shop like this is actually for.

Not price. A corner shop does not beat a large chain on a discounted line and pretending otherwise fools nobody standing in it. Six other things, though — and every one of them is worth more on a Tuesday evening than a rupee off a packet.

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Open before six and after eleven

Seventeen hours a day. The milk before work and the atta somebody forgot on the way home are the two things a shop closed at eight cannot sell you.

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One hundred grams, if that is what you need

A supermarket sells the pack it was sent. A kirana weighs out what the recipe wants, which is why nothing goes stale in a small kitchen.

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It is at the end of the lane

Buvapada, by Ambedkar Chowk. No delivery slot, no minimum order, no waiting in — the trip is four minutes and you carry it back yourself.

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The old arrangements still work here

A running account settled at month end is not a feature an app can add. It is a relationship, and it belongs to shops like this one.

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The brands are actually in stock

Keeping the whole Aashirvaad and Sunfeast range on the shelf costs money that sits there. It is the difference between a shop you can rely on and one you have to check first.

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Somebody who knows the house

Which atta you buy, which biscuit the children like, and that you will be back on Thursday. That is the whole advantage, and it does not scale — which is rather the point.

Come round

Buvapada, by Ambedkar Chowk in Bhaskar Nagar. Open from six in the morning until a quarter past eleven at night.

📍 Open in Maps Where & when

Buvapada, Bhaskar Nagar, Ambernath (West), Thane — 421501 · 6.00 a.m. – 11.15 p.m.