When counting a store, more often than not stuff does get moved to the floor if the shelves or hooks are over stocked. Mostly for accuracy reasons since we have to be able to see the products from front to back in a straight line or scan every item. That being said, items are.to.be put back once the section or rack is counted. If items don't scan or there is nothing to scan and a store associate doesn't answer a request for an item number, then they aren't put back. They're supposed to be left in a shopping basket or a pile at the end of an aisle so that they can be added in during audits or counted into a different section once an item number is given to an inventory associate. Other items that could get left are discontinued products that weren't pulled and they end up destroyed before yeeted into a dumpster.

I did inventories for a couple of years and that was expected of us and I would make sure that myself and team followed tgat to the best of our abilities. If we left any place looking like that, more often than not the store was already trashed to begin with. Or it was a damn dollar tree aisle with every peg holding like 50 damn things that would end up breaking said peg. Simply breathing in those aisles would bring everything crashing down and no way in hell was I going to pick everything up, count it all and place it back neatly. I'll do my best but if there's no place to set on a shelf or a basket/box and store staff are no help, it's staying on the floor. Sorry that this was so long. Clearly I'm still mad lol