Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger

The Kroger Co.•Gainesville, GA

13d

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 groceries at checkout, helps customers with merchandise and loading bags into their cars, maintains store and parking lot cleanliness, returns merchandise to shelves, gathers carts, and provides basic shelf conditioning. The role also involves informing customers about grocery specials, answering product and store questions, conducting price checks, handling seasonal merchandise, and following safety, food safety, equipment maintenance, legal, and company procedures. The associate must work cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment, handle conflict constructively, act with honesty and integrity, follow directions, and seek assistance when needed. The role includes direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults. Essential functions must be performed with or without reasonable accommodation. Applications are continuously accepted for roles like this one. The team reviews submissions regularly and contacts applicants when a position becomes available that aligns with their qualifications and organizational priorities.

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 necessary 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 customers' groceries at checkout, aiming to place at least five items in each bag while preventing damage.
Follow best practices when 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 of 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, 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.
Answer customers' questions about products in the department and throughout the store, helping them feel welcome, important, and appreciated.
Adhere to local, state, and federal laws and company guidelines.
Work cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment.
Manage conflict reasonably and cooperatively, without confrontation.
Handle customer and business information honestly and with integrity.
Follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues.
Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.