The Agony of a Shopkeeper...

Through this blog I am not going to discuss anything about the profit, loss or risk involved in business. Its something no one ever noticed. A punishment, person gets coz he is the owner of a shop. Leaving apart the fate of business, first i would like to tell something about the routine a shopkeeper follows..

Open the shop by 9.30 am. Clean the shop and then attend the customers. You leave the shop not before 9.00 pm. Ya it includes the lunch break of about an hour. A job for about 12 hours a day and on holiday. Even the day when shop is closed, he has got a lot of work to do. To make the accounts and keep note of credit and debits. Also keep account of inventory. Make payments for the good. This is a general routine. But its his fate he cant avoid.


I wont call it an agony either. Its the part of the job. The path to the goal you choosed. What is the actual agony then? Its a jurisdiction of society to which a shopkeeper is subjected. When ever the social systems undergoes a turmoil, a fracture, its the shopkeeper, who makes the payment for its repair. Have you ever thought who suffer when ever there is a rampage? (leave the dead apart. Mobs never ask who you are when the kill you)

Who suffers when ever there is any political band? Its the shopkeeper ofcourse. Its him whose shop is destroyed. He bears the lose of property. The mob just go, breaks in the shop and loots him. He is the one who is bitten up, when he tries to protect his shop.

When ever there is a band, government employees enjoy holiday, private companies don’t deduct your salary. Who suffers? Shopkeeper. He has to close his shop. Impacting his days sale. He dont get a salary. He earns when he sells something. Any of such activity, directly impacts his earning. You may think how much a single day band will impact a shopkeeper? I agree to a established shop it wont impact much. But what about the shops of poor people? A cobbler, a tri cycle rider? They have to face the crisis.

This the agony of a shopkeeper. Which he hadn't choose but has to suffer. A agony that can be avoided but never will be..