Billing for your footwear shop in Silvassa, Daman and Diu
Every size counted, the shift worker's pair paid in two parts, and the rubber chappals that sell first in the rain.
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The industrial lanes of Daman and the shoes that walk them every shift
Shoes are worn out where people walk, and in Daman many people walk to the factory.
A size 8 that is gone, and a pair that is paid for on the first
The shift's shoes wear out together
The floor wears the shoes of a whole shift at the same rate, so the men buy the same style in the same month. The size 8 of that style is gone by the third week and the 6s are untouched, and the next lot from the supplier arrives after the men have bought elsewhere.
A pair taken on the wage day, and a man who may not come back from the festival
A worker from another state picks sturdy shoes the week the wages come and says he will pay the rest after the festival. He may not be back. The shop's note holds the style and the size he took, and that is all that is left of a man who left no address. Unless the half still owed is written beside his name, it is gone the day he boards the train.
The lane floods and the May lot has no answer on the fifth day
In the rains the lane near the factory floods ankle-deep, and the men on the shift walk to work in rubber chappals and carry their shoes in a bag. A shop that ordered one lot in May has nothing to say to the man who asks on the fifth day, and the rubber he wants is not on the shelf.
From the size curve of the shift to the cobbler's page
The wholesaler's mix is for a town, and your lane is a shift
A wholesaler packs his sizes for an average town. Your customers are men from the factory lanes, and their feet are not average. Tell him what ran out in your shop and what stayed: bring the pairs that went, and keep the sizes at the ends of his mix at his godown. A shelf stocked to his mix is stocked for feet that never come through your door.
The supervisor picks four pairs of one style in the wage-day week
A shift supervisor often chooses the pairs for the men on his line, and he comes in the week the wages arrive. Four men on a line wear the same style, so four pairs of that style go in one visit. Each pair is billed with its size on its line, and the style's count drops by four in the week the shelf is thinnest in the sizes the floor wears.
The soles the cobbler takes on credit, written on his own page
The cobbler across the lane buys soles and thread from you through the week. Give him a page. Each lot is a bill on it with its date. On Saturday he pays what he can, and the rest stays written beside the lots, so his page is never mixed into the counter's sales and nobody argues about Wednesday.
Tools for a counter that sells chappals in the rain and shoes for the shift
Daily reports
Each wet day's rubber chappals sold, read day by day, so next May's lot is sized from what the flooded lane really took.
Low stock warnings
A warning set a little higher before the wage-day week, when the shift workers come for the closed shoes in the sizes the factory floor wears.
Bills on your phone
A shift worker's new pair and the strap mended on his old one on one bill, each on its own line.
Questions footwear shops in Silvassa, Daman and Diu ask
Safety shoes and school shoes both come in size 8. Do I keep two lists?
No. Each style is its own item, and each size of it too. The safety shoe in size 8 and the school shoe in size 8 are two lines with two counts, and the stock list shows them together.
A factory canteen buys rubber chappals for its kitchen staff by the dozen. Can the dozen be one tap?
Yes. Keep the pair as the item. A dozen is twelve on the bill, and every pair comes off the same count.
A shift worker wears out a pair of chappals every month in the rains. Can I see how often he comes?
Yes. Give him a page and bill each pair on it. The page shows the days he bought, so you see he comes after a month of rain, and you can have a pair of his size on the shelf when he walks in.
When the water rises I carry the spare boxes up the stairs in a hurry. How do I note which went up?
Note the boxes in as you carry them to the first floor. That floor shows what went up, so when the water goes down you do not count every box again, and the boxes you bring back down are noted out.
The monsoon months and the cool season of the territory
The monsoon runs from June to September, and the territory gets an average rainfall of 2,000 to 2,500 mm. Four months of rain is four months of rubber chappals, wet sandals and soles that give way, so a shop's rainy lot is its largest order of the year.
Winter in Dadra and Nagar Haveli starts in October and extends until February, with temperatures from 14 °C to 30 °C, says the district profile. Cool mornings bring out closed shoes and socks, and the shop that sold sandals all summer needs a different shelf.