When the till says bread moved and the bay is empty

Grocers in Tbilisi often bake twice. The morning batch hits the till. The afternoon batch is sold on a tab the cashier keeps on a pad, then forgotten when the extract is sent to the accountant. Monday’s file then shows a spike that the four o’clock bay cannot explain.

In a floor walk pairing we take last week’s bread lines to the bay and ask when the shelf was last full. If the manager says “after lunch it is always gone” and the extract shows a single morning ring-up, the missing tab is the story. The next trading briefing gets a second column, handwritten, until the till can take the afternoon bake.

We do not scold the cashier. We mark the hole so the owner stops ordering as if the spike were demand. Bread is only the example. The same hole appears in cut cheese, in coffee sold from a flask, and in any line that leaves the shop without a beep.

If your extract is tidy and the bay still lies, the sitting needs the floor, not another spreadsheet pass.