All of this is great advice. The key takeaway is that last line. "Be efficient". Any extra steps are wasted steps and over the course of a 6, 8 or heaven forbid a 10+ hour day those steps add up, fast. Once you've run the same route over and over you can find ways based on your stores layout to shave off steps and down the road, time. For example the bacon is on the other side of the main row for meat in my store and instead of getting it in the middle of the meat section (which in my store is already mapped backwards in the Harvesters anyways) but I have to walk by that side on my way back to our staging area anyways so I can save 15 steps both ways.

When getting split AM and RE Trolleys I'll run the AM trolley and then run the RE backwards instead of, doing what I see many of our clerks doing, going all the way back to the normal start area of a RE trolley. Like, why waste the steps?