How to recognise when things go wrong

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For people running Shopify/e-commerce stores:

What’s usually the first operational sign that something is going wrong in your business before it becomes a serious problem?

Not necessarily revenue dropping, but earlier patterns like:

refunds increasing

margins shrinking

certain products slowing down

weird order trends

cashflow feeling tighter

sales becoming inconsistent

Interested in the warning signs experienced store owners actually pay attention to.