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Tools you use before you pay us anything

Five working guides from the practice. Real value, no fluff, each usable this week in a real store. Read them here, or leave an email for the printable pack.

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The Store Data Health Checklist

Twenty questions an owner answers in an hour to find out whether the store’s numbers deserve trust. No software needed, only honesty and a walk to the shelf.

Open the guide →Counting

The Stocktake Discipline Guide

Why counting a little every day beats the annual big bang, and how to run a daily count programme inside a normal shift.

Open the guide →Ordering

The Ordering Readiness Self-Assessment

Is your store ordering from data or from habit? Twelve questions to place your store on the ladder from gut ordering to generated ordering.

Open the guide →Ledger repair

The Negative Stock Triage Guide

What a minus on the stock ledger actually means, the three causes behind almost every negative, and the first three actions to take.

Open the guide →Operational freedom

The Owner’s Morning Questions

The ten questions a store should answer for its owner before 08:00, without a phone call. How far is your store from answering them?

Open the guide →
Two minutes, no call

Find out where your store stands

Eight questions. Answer honestly and you get a straight read on which of the three legs your store needs first, and what the sensible next step costs. Nothing here goes anywhere until you choose to send it.

  1. The stock figure on screen and the shelf regularly disagree.

  2. Month-end profit surprises me, in either direction.

  3. If I take two weeks off, standards slip.

  4. Ordering happens on habit or on a rep’s suggestion, not on demand.

  5. Suppliers or creditors are putting pressure on the account.

  6. New staff learn the job by watching someone, not from anything written.

  7. Somebody counts stock every trading day.

  8. I can see yesterday’s numbers before 08:00 without phoning anyone.

Coming soon

The Retailer’s Handbook

We are writing the book we wanted when we started: how an independent store actually gets its numbers, its shelves and its people under control. Everything the practice has learned, in one place, in plain language.

It will be free on Amazon Books when it lands. No launch date yet, because we would rather finish it properly than announce a month.

Get the printable pack

Leave your email and we send the print-ready versions of all five guides, plus new ones as they publish. Straight from Pieter, no sequence, unsubscribe any time.