Here we are outside a very everyday site.
You've probably got one of these in your local town.
It's a convenience store.
These kind of local shops, mom and pop shops, variety stores, corner stores, corner shops, whatever you call it.
They kind of form the backdrop to our lives, don't they?
You walk past them, you pop in them, you pop out of them,
but have you ever really stopped to think about who runs them, how they run them, and how they manage to survive?
This is the food chain from the BBC World Service with me, Ruth Alexander,
and this week we're looking at what it takes to run a local store.
Hello, Ruth and Beatrice from the BBC.
Hi there, how are you doing?
Very well, thank you.
Hi AJ, I'm Ruth.
AJ,
I hear you have been working very hard at this business and you do things a little bit differently to try and keep yourself ahead of the competition,
so I'd love to have a tour if you could show me what you do.
Well, this is Premier Mawley and we have been around the Mawley area for around 40 years now.
My granddad had the store, passed it down to my dad, and now I've took over the store.
I've been running the store for around 10 years now.
When your grandfather first opened this shop 40 years ago, he'd just arrived in the UK from India, is that right?