You know the shelf. A carton you bought in the rainy season, a stack of phone cases for a model people have stopped asking for, a fan that looked like a sure thing. Every time you walk past, you tell yourself you'll deal with it. Then you don't, because nothing about it is urgent today. Dead stock is goods you hold th
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Tunde closes at 8pm. Blessing opens at 8am. They haven't spoken since Tuesday. At 10am a woman walks in and says she paid ₦42,000 by transfer last night and was told to come back for her goods this morning. Blessing has never seen her. There's a carton under the counter with no name on it. Tunde's phone is off because
You open the shop yourself most days, so you've never written down how. You count the float without thinking. You know the freezer hums a certain way when it's working. You know which socket not to use. Then you travel for a burial, your sales girl opens for three days, and you come back to a freezer of spoiled chicke
It's the 28th and you're working out salaries. You're sure Chinedu missed two days this month. He says one, and that the other was the day you sent him to Mile 12 for tomatoes. You honestly can't remember. Neither can he, not with certainty. You'll either pay him for a day he may not have worked or dock him for a day
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The sales book templates you find online were mostly designed for a shop that takes cash. A Nigerian shop takes cash, bank transfers and POS, often all three within ten minutes. A book with one "Amount" column can't tell you why the money in the drawer is ₦40,000 less than the sales total, when the answer is simply tha
Stock is where a shop's money lives. A provision store with ₦3 million of goods on the shelves and ₦40,000 in the drawer has nearly all its wealth in tins and cartons. Yet most owners count the ₦40,000 every night and the ₦3 million once a year. Stock control sounds like something for supermarkets with scanners. It is
There is a kind of shop owner who hasn't travelled for a wedding in four years. Not because the business is failing. Because it only works when they are standing in it. When you ask why, the answer is nearly always the same: "If I'm not there, things go missing." What that usually means is that the owner is the system
Putting your goods on Jiji is not the hard part. The posting form takes a few minutes. The hard part comes later, when someone calls from across town about the blue one, drives over, and finds you sold it yesterday. This guide covers both: getting adverts live, and running Jiji alongside a physical shop without disapp
The shop is busy. Customers come in all day; the shelves empty and get refilled, and the sales book looks healthy. Then you sit down at the end of the month, and the money doesn't match the goods that left. Not by a frightening amount. Just enough that you start watching people. In August 2025, police in Niger State a
The reason most shops take stock once a year, if at all, is that it means locking the door for a day. A day closed is a day's sales gone, so the count keeps getting moved to next month. You don't have to close. Count the shop in pieces, one section at a time, while it stays open. A provision store split into six secti
Most stock books fail for the same reason. Everything goes on one page, in the order it happened, and by the second week nobody can tell how many tins of milk are meant to be on the shelf without reading forty lines. The fix is one page per item. Each product gets its own page, and that page only ever answers one ques
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