The counter is not where a bag business is won
Walk-in retail pays the rent. It rarely decides the year. For most bag and luggage retailers the gap between a flat year and a good one is a handful of bulk orders: 300 branded backpacks for an IT company's onboarding kits, 800 school bags for a CBSE school, conference totes for an event agency. Each is worth more than a fortnight of counter sales, and each arrives as an enquiry worked over weeks.
That is the work most shops manage worst. The enquiry lands on WhatsApp, someone sends a rate, a sample goes out, and everything after that depends on whether a busy person remembers to call back. A CRM here is how the enquiry worth four lakh gets chased with the same discipline as the one worth four thousand.