The Retail Institute Store Operations & Loss Prevention Audit Form

Here is a comprehensive audit form that involves all the key operational areas of a store as well as loss prevention issues.

The form is easily printed out on any black and white printer. It can be edited easily using MS WORD so that you can add and delete line items and customize the form for your chain. There's also a weighted scoring system that can also be modified and is designed to generate a quantified score out of 100.

The Store Operations & Loss Prevention  Store Audit Form is vital to any retail chain that wants to:

• Benchmark a retail and loss prevention for the chain
• Compare retail excellence between stores
• Action plan individual stores to improve Operational and Loss Prevention performance
• Standardize Store Operations and Loss Prevention practices between stores
• Maximize the customer buying experience

The form comes with instructions and is designed with these key sections:

1. General Store Standards
2. Customer Approach and Evaluation of the Six Step System8
3. Cash Desk Area and Financial Controls
4. Visual Presentation Standards
5. Store Entrance and Display Windows
6. Rear Stockroom area
7. Merchandise Plan Adherance
8. Future Action Planning

This is the most important form and audit system for any multiple location retail operation and can be effectively conducted by supervisory management at a store during a half day visit.