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APM Daily Total Store Tour Notes

by Ron Toby, from the Community

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This APM daily total store tour notes template helps retail teams assess operations, loss prevention, and safety in one walkthrough. Use it to verify door seals, front-of-store controls, CSM podium security, high-ticket handling, and greeter engagement. Review foods, apparel, hardlines, and entertainment departments for merchandise protection, clean floors, stable stacks, and locked showcases. Evaluate backroom practices including vendor logs, key control, DSD receiving, bin accuracy, and top steel. Track shrink metrics for key departments, confirm CCTV signage, and audit cash wraps, returns, and safe procedures. Include safety checks such as team lifts, secured displays, spill stations, and dated extension cords.

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