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"By the second week I knew exactly which item was making me money. And which one was bleeding me dry."

Merchant story · May 18, 2026 · 12 min

Inside Balogun Spices: how Emeka Okonkwo went from a paper notebook to a 31% margin in four months.

A market trader in his second decade of selling spices in Balogun, Lagos walks us through the numbers — and the habit shifts — that came with switching to an offline-first POS. No hype. Just receipts.

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Esther Akande

Editor, Enimara · Field-reported from Balogun, Lagos

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