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Where the money went, and what a sales book can honestly tell you
At closing time most shopkeepers ask three questions in the same breath. How much came in. How much is still owed. What actually moved off the shelf.
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A small shop, from the shutter going up to the shutter coming down
A general store selling a few hundred things, where the price is on the packet and the queue is longest between six and eight.
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Two days at an event, with a queue and no internet
A mela ground, a food stall, and the worst phone signal of the year, because twenty thousand people are standing on it.
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Your shop already knows things you do not
You pull the shutter down. There are four thousand rupees in the drawer. Was that a good day? Most shopkeepers cannot say.
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Put your shop on Google Maps, in the time it takes to drink a coffee
When somebody nearby types "kirana near me" or "medical shop open now", Google answers from a list. Shops that are on it get the call. Shops that are not, do not exist to that person.