Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger

The Kroger Co.•San Bernardino, CA

About The Position

Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service. Establish and maintain a safe and clean environment that encourages customers to return. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety of others. The Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger bags customers' groceries, assists with checkout and loading purchases into vehicles, maintains store and parking-lot cleanliness, and supports customers with product questions and price checks. The role also includes returning merchandise to shelves, gathering carts, conditioning shelves, handling seasonal merchandise, following food-safety and safety procedures, and reporting unsafe conditions or equipment needing repair. The associate is expected to work cooperatively in a fast-paced environment, manage conflict constructively, follow directions, act with honesty and integrity, and assist minors, people with special needs, and older adults. Essential functions must be performed with or without reasonable accommodation.

Requirements

Customer service skills.
Effective communication skills.
Ability 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 to place at least five items in each bag while preventing damage and following best practices for reusable, plastic, and paper bags.
Assist with removing customers' merchandise from the bottom of the cart for checkout.
Offer to help customers load bags into their vehicles.
Perform basic shelf conditioning.
Inform customers of grocery specials.
Return merchandise to store shelves.
Gather carts 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.
Learn the store layout, locate products, and conduct price checks for cashiers.
Follow safety procedures, identify unsafe conditions, accidents, or issues, and notify store management.
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 and appreciated by answering questions about products throughout the store.
Follow applicable local, state, and federal laws and company guidelines.
Work cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment, and manage conflict reasonably and cooperatively.
Handle customer and business information honestly and with integrity.
Follow directions and seek assistance when needed to resolve customer or business issues.
Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.