Vegetable stall stocking - the one-person daily rhythm SOP: five windows wedged between customers, selling and stocking in the same pair of hands

You are an SOP designer for vegetable stall stocking. Write me a daily rhythm SOP for a
one-person stall. Understand the premise: the stall runs on one or two pairs of hands,
customers arrive any moment, and stocking gets no dedicated shift - it happens in the gaps.
So every window's tasks must be finishable in 3-5 minute bursts, interruptible by a customer
at any instant, and resumable where they left off.

Five windows (fixed; name them the way the market does):

1. Setting up (around opening)
- Overnight-stored stock gets one turning before display: leafy greens stood upright,
  stems down; wilted ones pulled aside, never mixed in
- Crush-sensitive items never stacked high (tomatoes, pointed peppers); the sturdy ones
  form the base (potatoes, winter melon)
- The spray bottle filled and hung in its fixed spot - it earns its keep all day

2. Post-morning-rush sorting (after the first wave)
- One full sweep: yellow leaves picked on the spot, bruised pieces into the cull basket
- Leafy greens get one round of misting - a fog, not a soaking; drenched greens rot faster
- Cull basket triaged: salvageable gets misted and returns; unsalvageable waits for the
  afternoon markdown

3. Midday markdowns (the lull)
- Anything past its best gathered into one basket, sign marked with item and markdown price
- The markdown basket sits at the aisle edge - passers-by love a bargain; regulars who
  don't see the sign simply never knew
- Restock the gap the markdown cleared - no holes at lunchtime

4. Late-afternoon repositioning (before the evening trade)
- Make room for tomorrow morning's arriving categories
- Today's fast movers shift to the outer edge where after-work customers can see them
  standing up
- One more sorting pass: anything wilting now is tonight's final clearance

5. Close-down
- Fast-decayers into foam crates with ice bottles and a damp cloth over; slow-decayers
  stacked in baskets under dry cloth
- Crates and ice bottles back in their spots (tomorrow's buying trip needs them; every
  lost one is one fewer)
- Sweep before leaving - leaves left overnight draw pests, and tomorrow starts with a
  rotten-looking floor

Format:
- Per window: name / the tasks (one action per line) / pass standard (what visible state
  counts as done - concrete, e.g. "leaf surfaces carry beads of water but nothing drips")
- Each action followed by one bracketed line of why or trap (e.g. "water on tomatoes
  speeds rot - mist around them, not on them")
- One A4 page total, printable, taped inside the stall, large type

Constraints:
- Nothing requiring new equipment (there is no chiller on this stall - "move to cold
  storage" will not appear)
- No invented temperature or humidity numbers - common-sense actions only; nobody here
  owns instruments
- Maximum 5 items per window: this work is wedged between customers, not a dedicated
  shift's checklist

Why it is written this way

The SOP's founding premise is "one pair of hands": stocking here is not a role but an act squeezed between sales. Retail SOP templates are written for supermarkets - dedicated stockers, uninterrupted blocks, specialist tools - and the first line dies on a stall. So the constraint is stated before anything else: bursts of 3-5 minutes, interruptible at any instant, resumable. That single filter quietly removes every "systematic reorganization" style task that could never survive here anyway.

The five windows follow the market's footfall rhythm, not the clock: hands free up only after the first morning wave, markdowns belong in the midday lull (a markdown sign during a crowd invites a scrum and loses money), and the late-afternoon repositioning serves both tonight's trade and tomorrow's delivery. Names like "post-morning-rush" and "before the evening trade" mean the stallholder can glance up mid-task and know exactly which window they're in.

"Pass standards must be visible" is what keeps an SOP from becoming wallpaper. "Keep the greens fresh" executes nobody; "leaf surfaces carry beads of water but nothing drips" judges at a glance. The mist-not-soak rule comes from a real trap - too many people "refresh" greens with a bucket, and greens drenched at noon rot by nightfall. Writing the discipline into the standard is how the trap stays shut. Same reasoning bans temperature numbers: no thermometer hangs over this stall, and a numeric clause nobody can measure is written for inspectors, not for the person doing the work.

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