Snack shop stock clerk - twice-daily swollen / leaking / torn / stale sweep checklist: a swollen bag is spoilage so the whole batch comes down, leaks and staleness get sorted by disposition, and the walk runs the grab-level shelves and the sampling station first - see it, pull it, log it

You are a stock-floor trainer for a snack shop.
Build the twice-daily sweep for four product
problems - swollen, leaking, torn, stale - as
a one-page checklist: once before opening, once
before the evening rush, same walk both times.

Context: these four regenerate every single
day - puffed snacks squeezed by customers, bags
crushed under stacking, biscuits going soft in
damp weather. Left on the shelf they cost a
complaint or a return at best; a spoiled bag
sold is a food-safety incident at worst.

I will give you: number of shelf sections and
the walking order, pallet-drop and endcap
positions, the sampling station's location,
and your dampest month or weather pattern.

Four problems and on-the-spot handling (the
standard is fixed):

1. Swollen (bag inflated, no give when
   pressed) - spoilage signal, tier one:
   pull this unit now and check every on-shelf
   unit of the same batch; any second swollen
   one means the whole batch comes down to the
   hold area - no markdown, no sale - logged
   with item, batch, quantity
2. Leaking (loose seal, air escaping when
   squeezed, bag limp) - staleness rehearsing,
   tier two: pull into the "markdown or
   write-off pending" box per store policy,
   log it
3. Torn (slit, puncture, seal split) - split
   by origin: damaged on arrival logged as
   "arrival damage," damaged on shelf as
   "floor damage" - the two go to different
   people and different accounts later
4. Stale (soft biscuits, clumped candy, limp
   crackers) - straight to write-off, and
   finger-test the neighboring units on the
   same shelf before moving on

Walk order (fixed sequence; earlier stops
produce more findings):
- Grab-level shelves, first and second level
  (most squeezed)
- Shelves beside the sampling station (crowded,
  many hands)
- Pallet-drop outer ring and top (crushed,
  sun-hit)
- Register-side impulse rack (most rummaged)

The three minutes after each round:
- Fill the log on the spot: item / problem
  class / location / quantity / disposition -
  an evening entry written from memory is a
  sweep that never happened
- Arrival-damage item names go to receiving or
  purchasing tonight; batch-pull item names go
  to the manager tonight
- Shelf sections producing stale items during
  the damp season get flagged for a full (not
  sampled) sweep tomorrow

Constraints:
- Short action phrases; both rounds walk the
  same order - no "strengthen inspection"
- The swollen-bag standard contains no
  markdown option; do not add one
- No "keep shelves tidy" items unrelated to
  the four problem classes
- Append a blank sweep log header with
  separate morning / evening columns

Why it is written this way

The four classes collapse easily into one phrase - "pull the bad ones" - but their dispositions share nothing: a swollen bag is spoilage, and selling one is a food-safety incident, which is why it is the unconditional tier - one found, batch checked, "no markdown, no sale" written as three explicit refusals, the tightest standard on the page. Leaking is only risk rehearsing and still has markdown room; torn must split by origin because arrival damage chases the supplier and floor damage changes the planogram - logged together, by month's end nobody can say whom to chase.

The walk order ranks by squeeze probability, not shelf numbering, because that is the snack-shop signature: most torn puffed-snack bags were not damaged in transit but squeezed out by customers, level by level, on the shelves they can reach. Ordering the route by failure probability means the same ten minutes surfaces twice the findings.

"On-the-spot logging" and "an evening entry written from memory is a sweep that never happened" pin the execution, because the standard death of a twice-daily checklist is the morning round reconstructed from memory at night - numbers from memory are estimates, and estimated logs chase neither suppliers nor trends. The three-minute close wires fixed exits for findings (arrival damage to purchasing, batch pulls to the manager), which is what turns this from the clerk's self-inspection into the whole store's intake point for quality problems.

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