Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger

Kroger•Federal Way, WA

About The Position

Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service and help maintain a safe, clean environment that encourages customers to return. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety of others. This role supports checkout and store operations by bagging groceries, assisting customers, maintaining merchandise and shopping-cart areas, cleaning, and following safety and food-safety requirements. The associate must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Requirements

Customer service skills.
Effective communication skills.
Ability to work cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment.
Ability to manage conflict in a reasonable, nonconfrontational, and cooperative manner.
Ability to act with honesty and integrity regarding customer and business information.
Ability to follow directions and seek assistance when needed to resolve customer and business issues.
Must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Nice To Haves

Retail experience is preferred but not necessary.

Responsibilities

Bag groceries at checkout, aiming for at least five items per bag while preventing damage to items.
Follow best practices for bagging items in reusable, plastic, and paper bags.
Assist with removing customers' merchandise from the bottom of the bascart for checkout.
Offer to help customers load bags into their cars.
Perform basic shelf conditioning.
Inform customers about grocery specials.
Return merchandise to store shelves.
Gather bascarts and return them to designated areas.
Clean spills and collect and pick up trash inside the store and in the parking lot.
Clean all areas inside and outside the store.
Handle and assemble seasonal merchandise.
Understand the store layout, locate products, and conduct price checks for cashiers.
Comply with safety procedures, reinforce safety programs, and notify store management about unsafe conditions, accidents, or issues.
Follow food safety regulations and guidelines.
Inspect equipment as part of preventive maintenance and notify the appropriate department or store manager about items needing repair.
Help customers feel welcome, important, and appreciated by answering questions about products sold in the department and throughout the store.
Follow applicable local, state, and federal laws and company guidelines.
Work cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment, manage conflict reasonably and cooperatively, and follow directions or seek assistance to resolve customer and business issues.
Act honestly and with integrity when handling customer and business information.
Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.