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When Your Supplier Starts Selling to Your Customers
Your supplier has begun selling to your own buyers. Why he does it, what it truly costs you each week, the conversation to have, and what to change.
Read article MoneyStockThe Crates and Cylinders That Never Come Back
Every crate and cylinder in a customer's kitchen is your money. Count what is out, set a deposit worth returning, and keep it out of your sales figure.
Read article MoneyStockBuying the Stock of a Shop That Is Closing
Half price is only cheap if you buy the right half. Sort a closing shop's goods into three piles, price only the first, and never take the lot to be kind.
Read article CompareStockA Supplier's Full Range, or Only What Sells?
Better rate, a free rack, first call in a shortage, and sixteen items your street never asks for. The arithmetic, the warning signs, and the middle path.
Read article MoneyStockBuying Stock Together With Another Shop
Two small shops can reach a rate slab neither reaches alone. The four things to settle first, who to do it with, and how to keep it out of your own figures.
Read article ProblemStockThe Goods He Took Home Just to Look At
It left the shop with no sale and no entry, so it exists nowhere. The eight-second note, the return date, the deposit, and the day it becomes udhaar.
Read article MoneyStockHow Low Should Stock Get Before You Order Again?
Ordering too late loses sales, ordering too early locks up cash. Three numbers set the right level for every item, with a worked example and a method.
Read article CompareStockBehind the Counter or on the Open Shelf?
An open shelf sells more and loses more. Which items earn their freedom, which belong behind you, and the middle arrangement most small shops settle on.
Read article ProblemStockThe Goods You Take Out of Your Own Shop
Tea for the counter, soap for the house, a packet for a guest. None of it was a sale, all of it left the shelf, and your stock count pays for the difference.
Read article MoneyStockYou Paid the Supplier and No Goods Came
An advance is money he owes you until the stock arrives. Record it on his account, fix four things at the counter, and chase it in steps that escalate.
Read article MoneyStockThe Supplier Target Scheme That Buries Your Cash
Take forty cartons instead of twelve and four come free. Work out what the bonus pays against the money it locks up, and how to counter-offer politely.
Read article ProblemStockYour Supplier's Total and Yours Do Not Match
His book says one number, yours says another, and both of you are honest. Here is how to find the gap line by line instead of arguing about the total.
Read article ProblemStockLending Goods to the Shop Next Door
A dozen soaps here, a carton of milk there, nothing written down. Borrowing stock between neighbouring shops is useful, until neither side can total it.
Read article MoneyStockThe Costs That Never Reach Your Buying Rate
Transport, loading, breakage and wastage do not appear on the supplier's bill, so they never reach your rate. Work out what a carton really costs you, once.
Read article MoneyStockChanging Your Supplier While You Still Owe Him
You found a better rate but still owe the old supplier Rs 140,000. Agree a written payoff schedule before your first new order, and plan the overlap months.
Read article CompareStockCount Your Stock in Rounds or Once a Year?
One shop shuts for a day and counts everything once a year. Another counts twenty items every week. Here is what each rhythm costs, and what it finds.
Read article ProblemStockWhen the Delivery Is Not What You Ordered
The van is at your door with the wrong size, brand or colour. Decide before you sign: send it back, keep it at an agreed lower rate, or keep it at full rate.
Read article ProblemStockThe Free Cartons and Samples Your Supplier Leaves
Buy ten get one, a box of samples, a replacement for spoiled stock. If none of it is written down, your buy rate, your count and your profit are all wrong.
Read article MoneyStockPaying a Supplier Who Is in Another City
The goods come by road and the money goes back another way. How to pay against a bill, what each route proves, and the reference line that ends the arguments.
Read article ProblemStockThe Supplier Who Hands You Goods and No Bill
No bill, no delivery note, just a rate said out loud. Here is the two-minute routine at the step that keeps the rate, the count and every payment straight.
Read article CompareStockA Weekly Bazaar Stall or More Stock at the Shop?
Rs 60,000 spare: a stall on the bazaar ground, or deeper stock on your own shelves. Cost the whole day honestly, then let a month of ticks decide.
Read article MoneyStockBuying a Big Pack and Selling It Loose
A 50 kg sack is never 50 sellable kilos. Work out the true cost per kilo after the shortfall, the spill and the pouches, then build a rate ladder.
Read article MoneyStockWhen You Cannot Pay a Supplier Bill on Time
The bill is due Thursday and your money is in customers' pockets. What to work out first, what to say on the call, and which supplier to pay before the rest.
Read article ProblemStockWhen a Supplier's Man Offers You a Private Cut
The company's salesman offers you cash off the bill for a bigger order. Here is what it really costs your shop, and how to move that value onto the bill.
Read article CompareStockStock the Cheap Version or the Good One?
The cheaper packet pays you Rs 15 more a piece and sits for four months. Here is the number that really settles it, and the mix most small shops need.
Read article CompareStockKeep Your Stock at the Shop or Store It at Home?
Storing goods at home saves rent and costs you counting, trips and sales you never made. Here is how to split it so the shop always has what people ask for.
Read article MoneyStockOne Payment, Three Supplier Bills: Where Does It Go?
You hand over Rs 20,000 against three open bills and nobody writes which one it paid. Here is how to allocate every payment so the account never drifts.
Read article ProblemStockThe Stock Your Supplier Sent That You Never Ordered
Four extra cartons come off the van and the bill already lists them. How to refuse without losing the supplier, and what that stock really costs you.
Read article MoneyStockThe Supplier Who Wants Cash Before Unloading
Advance terms are a price, not a punishment. Find out why he changed them, ask for the cash rate that should come with it, and reshape your orders around it.
Read article CompareStockMany Items or Deeper Stock of a Few?
One shelf, two strategies. Carrying a little of everything and carrying plenty of a few pull a shop in opposite directions. How to choose on purpose.
Read article MoneyStockThe Sales You Lose to Things You Never Keep
Every no you say at the counter is money walking out. A one-line habit turns those refusals into the most reliable buying list your shop will ever have.
Read article ProblemStockWhen Stock Breaks or Spoils Inside Your Own Shop
A dropped bottle, a leaking sack, a packet chewed by rats. Nobody owes you for it, so most shops never write it down. Here is what that silence costs you.
Read article ProblemStockCheck the Delivery Before the Van Drives Away
Most stock shortages are born in the two minutes goods come off the cart. Four checks that fit inside the unloading, and what to do when you find it late.
Read article CompareStockFetch Your Stock Yourself or Take Delivery?
Going to the market gets you a better rate and a closed shop. Delivery costs more and keeps you selling. How to price your own hours and choose properly.
Read article CompareStockSupplier Credit or a Cash Discount: Which Wins?
Your supplier offers goods on account, or a few percent off for paying today. Work out what the delay is really worth before you choose either one.
Read article MoneyStockThe Items You Are Selling Below Your Own Cost
Some lines on your shelf lose money on every sale and look busy doing it. Here is where the loss hides, how to find it in ten minutes, and what to do next.
Read article MoneyStockWhen Your Supplier Raises His Rate Quietly
A rate rise nobody announced eats your earning first. Catch it at the door, know what to say to the supplier, and pass it on without losing buyers.
Read article ProblemStockCatch Expiry Dates Before They Cost You Money
Expired stock is money you already paid for, thrown away twice. Here is the five-minute shelf routine, the items to watch, and how to sell it in time.
Read article CompareStockOne Supplier or Several: What Suits Your Shop
One supplier means a better rate and longer credit. Several mean safety and a real comparison price. Here is the whole trade, and what most shops settle on.
Read article MoneyStockTwo Rates for One Item: Retail and Wholesale
One rate for everybody quietly costs you money. Set a normal rate, a bulk rate tied to a quantity, and a floor you never go below, then write all three down.
Read article ProblemStockWhen Stock Goes Missing and Nobody Knows How
The shelf says forty, you count thirty-four, and nobody stole anything. Where small-shop stock really leaks, and the one-shelf count that finds it in a week.
Read article CompareStockBuy Stock in Bulk or Little and Often?
The bulk discount against the cash it locks up, what frequent small orders really cost, and which of your own items belongs in each of the two.
Read article MoneyStockThe Stock That Never Sells and Eats Your Cash
Slow goods are not stock, they are your money asleep. A twenty-minute shelf walk, four ways to turn them back into cash, and how to stop buying them.
Read article MoneyStockHow to Buy Stock on Credit Without Choking Cash
Stock bought on credit is money you owe on a date. Write the bill the day it arrives, keep a payment calendar, and learn how much credit your shop can carry.
Read article GuideStockHow to Keep Shop Stock Right Without Counting All Day
Stock control for a small shop: record every purchase the day it lands, set low-stock levels on twenty items, count one shelf a week and know your buy rate.
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