The parking menace is another issue. Raw material bought from other places in bulk quantities have no place for storage. Also, there are hundreds of wholesale footwear shops and raw material shops, whose work consists of manufacturing shoes and distributing the same to other parts of Mumbai and India. Initially, shoes were sold to wholesale markets in parts of Mumbai but in the last 20 years some of them have opened their own shoe shops and today Thakkar Bappa Colony boasts of more than a hundred shops where people could buy handmade shoes of hundreds of different varieties and range.