Sales Floor Management Checklist

Daily sales floor walk for the store manager or shift lead — visual standards, replenishment, customer-facing readiness, and safety. Run at open and again mid-shift on high-traffic days.

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1

Visual Merchandising Walk

  1. Walk the floor against the current planogram
  2. Reset end-caps and feature tables to schematic
  3. Photograph end-caps for the district visual recap

    • Capture each promotional end-cap and front-window display so the district visual lead can compare against the corporate guide. Drift from week 1 to week 4 is the most common reason customers can't find advertised product.

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  4. Refresh price tags, talkers, and danglers

    • Pull expired promo signs and replace with the current sign kit. Mismatched MSRP / sale price at the shelf vs. POS is a recurring source of customer disputes and can trigger a state weights-and-measures complaint.

2

Replenishment and Stock Levels

  1. Pull the morning replenishment list from the POS

    • Run the low-stock report in Lightspeed / Shopify POS / Heartland against tonight's expected traffic. Pay special attention to advertised SKUs and BOPIS-staged items so an online order doesn't pull the last unit off the floor.

  2. Restock shelves from the stockroom pull
  3. Flag any out-of-stock advertised SKUs

    • If a SKU featured in this week's promo or circular is OOS on the floor and in the stockroom, capture it here so the district manager can request a transfer from a sister store before peak traffic.

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  4. Submit inter-store transfer request

    • Open a transfer request to the closest store with on-hand. Note the courier window — same-day vs. next-day matters for advertised promos ending tonight.

3

Cleanliness and Floor Safety

  1. Sweep aisles and spot-mop spills

    • Wet-floor cones stay out for the full dry time, not just while you mop. Slip-and-fall is the #1 OSHA-recordable in specialty retail.

  2. Clear aisles, fitting rooms, and fire exits

    • Stock totes, U-boats, and z-rails staged in the aisle are an ADA Title III problem (36-inch path) and a fire-marshal citation waiting to happen. Push everything back to the stockroom or hard against the fixture.

  3. Walk the fitting rooms for left-behind items
  4. Confirm restrooms are stocked and clean
4

Customer-Facing Readiness

  1. Brief associates on today's promo and loyalty offer

    • Three minutes at huddle: today's BOGO terms, GWP threshold, the loyalty sign-up incentive, and any markdowns going live at the register. Associates who can't quote the promo lose UPT.

  2. Stage BOPIS and curbside orders for pickup

    • Pick the overnight BOPIS queue, bag with the customer name and last-4 of the order, and stage in the hold area. Curbside orders go on the rack closest to the front door for fast runner-out.

  3. Verify register prompts on age-restricted SKUs

    • Ring a test transaction on any tobacco / alcohol / lottery SKU and confirm the POS forces DOB entry. A single missed card during a state ABC compliance check carries fines and can put the license at risk.

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  4. Open a POS support ticket for the failing prompt

    • Until the prompt is restored, associates must hand-card every customer on the affected SKU and log the sale on the manual carding sheet. Note the ticket number on the daily close report.

5

Staffing and Coverage

  1. Confirm coverage against the posted schedule

    • Cross-check Homebase / 7shifts / When I Work against who actually clocked in. In NYC, Seattle, Oregon, and other predictive-scheduling jurisdictions, any shift change inside the notice window owes the associate premium pay — log the reason now, not at week's end.

  2. Verify a key-holder is on the floor each hour

    • Refunds over the manager-approval threshold, safe access, and alarm code all require a key-holder. Coverage gaps mid-day are a common reason refund fraud goes through unchecked.

  3. Schedule meal and rest breaks per state rules

    • CA: 30-min meal before the 5th hour and a 10-min rest every 4 hours. Missed meal premiums add up fast and show up on the wage-and-hour audit. Post the break grid in the back office.

6

Loss Prevention and Safety Sign-Off

  1. Test EAS gates and deactivator at the wrap

    • Run a tagged demo item through the gates and confirm the alarm fires; then deactivate and confirm it clears. A live tag walking out the door is shrink; a non-deactivated tag in a customer's bag triggers the next store's gates and is an angry-customer call to corporate.

  2. Spot-check CCTV coverage on blind aisles

    • Pull up the Verkada / Solink / Sensormatic feed and confirm coverage on the high-shrink categories (small electronics, fragrance, denim) and the fitting-room entrance. Cameras knocked off-angle by overnight stocking are a known ORC tell.

  3. Confirm OSHA 300A is posted (Feb–Apr)

    • Required Feb 1 – Apr 30 for any store with 10+ employees. Easy citation if a corporate compliance walk catches the back-office board missing it.

  4. Sign off the sales floor walk

    • Captures the manager's name and any open issues that didn't resolve during the walk — handed off to the closing manager at shift change.

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