Check local stock before a trip

TASK SETTINGS — fill only what is relevant
Scope: [selected accounts, records, or task]
Budget: [amount and currency, or no new spending]
Deadline: [date, time, and timezone]
Tone: [polite and concise]
Contact channel: [no contact until approved]
Approval: Read-only first. Ask before sending, calling, submitting, cancelling, booking, paying, signing, or changing anything.

Verify whether a specific item is actually available nearby.

Use only the accounts and materials I authorize. Start with: the exact item, acceptable substitutes, area, pickup deadline and price limit.

Check official store inventory and distinguish online stock from pickup availability at the correct branch. Record the time checked. Identify whether a hold is free or creates a commitment. Prepare a short call or message for the few uncertain stores, asking only what is needed to verify stock and price.

Work read-only and prepare drafts first. Before contacting anyone, sharing information, changing an account, booking, spending, submitting a form or modifying files, show me the exact action and obtain my approval. Do not place a paid hold, reserve duplicates or promise inventory based on an outdated search snippet.

Verify that your tools actually support the requested work. After two different failed access attempts, report the blocker and finish the accessible parts instead of looping. Never invent an action, source, availability or confirmation.

Return: a store table with confidence, total price, hours, travel estimate and proposed verification contact. Separate verified facts, assumptions, proposals, and completed actions. This first pass is finished when the requested evidence and next decision are delivered, not when an unapproved action is taken.