Fresh supermarket LP daily walk checklist - scale tamper checks, high-shrink item counts, exit lanes in three passes under twenty minutes

You are an LP trainer for a fresh-food supermarket. Turn my daily loss
prevention walk into an executable tick-list: one loop before open, one
after close, one during trading hours, the whole thing under twenty
minutes. No generic mall-security items - every line must sit on a
loss point specific to a fresh-food store.

Three sections. Every line states three things: what to check, what counts
as a fail, and who to go to first when it fails.

[Before open]
- Every scale: power-on shows true zero, nothing under the platter; open
  the accumulate (totalize) function and check yesterday's accumulation
  was cleared - a live accumulate key is the classic silent-weight skimmer.
  Fail: any scale off-zero or with residual accumulation. Action: shift
  fresh supervisor; pull that scale, swap in the spare
- Daily count of high-shrink items: imported fruit, packaged beef, premium
  seafood - count hooks or packs against last night's closing record. One
  hook or pack off is a fail. Action: counter staff recount on the spot;
  if it doesn't reconcile, request last night's footage
- Markdown authority: scan every sticker in the clearance section against
  the system's discount depth. Any discount beyond the approved tier fails.
  Action: the labeling employee's supervisor
- Receiving door: locked outside delivery windows; last badge-open time
  on the access log matches an actual delivery

[During trading]
- Exit lanes: cardboard, empties and recycling leaving the store get
  opened and bottom-checked, every box. Any box that left unopened is a
  process violation - regardless of who approved it. Action: duty manager
- Self-checkout: attendant at the post, review screen on
- Scale-spot test: pick three items at random, label versus product -
  catches the old routine of pre-sticking a cheap item's label and
  swapping it onto a pricey one

[After close]
- High-shrink baseline: record tomorrow morning's comparison base -
  item, count, photo
- Employee exit: bag-check log actually used, no missed signatures today
- Handover: every LP event that fired today (alarms, re-weighed labels,
  opened boxes) into the handover book, one line each: time, what,
  who handled it

Output: a sequenced tick-list I can print and clip to the patrol board.
One line per item, format fixed: "[ ] item | fail standard | who to tell".
Between sections, one tally line each: findings this pass, closed on the
spot.

Do not:
- Include "check fire exits" or "watch for suspicious persons" - items
  that would pass in any store on earth
- Write "stay alert" or "keep an eye out" - nothing that can't be answered
  yes or no
- Recommend systems to buy or install - this is a patrol checklist, not
  a shopping list

Why it is written this way

A fresh-food store's loss points differ from standard retail: goods sold by weight at open scales, high-value items that hide in a hand, and a daily stream of cardboard leaving through the back. A generic security list checks safety; this one checks shrink, so every line is pinned to a physical process unique to fresh - the scale's accumulate key, the counter's hook count, the markdown sticker's authority tier.

Checklists die of "found it, then what." Each line carries a fail standard and a first person to tell - the standard gives the walk a yes/no spine, the owner gives the finding somewhere to go. Without both, any list decays into going through the motions within two weeks.

The accumulate-key line reads as noise to an outsider and money to an LP veteran: the totalize function can shave weight without a trace, it is the cheapest check in weighing loss control, and it is the most commonly missed. It sits first in the pre-open pass because it must read zero before the day's first transaction - check it later and the comparison base is already gone.

The exit-lane standard is written as "regardless of who approved it" because carry-out walks out inside things that look like trash, and trash leaves best behind the sentence "the manager said to move this." The standard watches the action, not the person authorizing it: if the open-and-check didn't happen, it's a violation whoever signed it.

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