I'll be going over a lot of things that others have glossed over.
-Sales, basket size, red cards: You dont have to memorize them, but familiarize yourself with them. Is your store meeting sales forecast/goals? Great! If not what are you doing to improve upon them? How are your survey score? Guest comments?
-How is the seasonal set going? Anything left to set? Signing? How much push is left?
How do you feel about amplified gifting?
-How are the mod teams performing? Are you on process? If not what are you doing to get there? My recent walks have been focused on A&A and Market.
-How is Q4 staffing? (This is obviously a question that should be directed at your HR etl but I've been asked it before on recent walks)
-How is the new push process going for your store? (If you're in a region that hasn't already rolled it out for a while)
-How is BF planning going? Scheduling?
-Hows SFS/OPU performing?
As you can see there is a pattern. If you aren't with the program, what are you doing to fix it. As long as they see that as a store you are moving in the right direction, 90% of the time they'll accept that answer. If not they will let your STL know. Do your best to always have an answer. If not, it's okay to not be sure about something, but dont try to bullshit your way out of a question, they can smell that coming from a mile away. Btw your DTL will know that you are trying to get facetime, so they shouldn't be too harsh on you, so relax and learn as much from these walks as possible.
I'm sure I've missed some things, and its interesting to see a lot of you say audit, since that's one thing I haven't come across on a visit. Then again since the company went push all, I've noticed our shelves staying full more often.
