Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger

The Kroger Co.•Starkville, MS

25d

About The Position

The Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger creates an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service and helps maintain a safe, clean environment that encourages customers to return. The role demonstrates the company's values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. Duties include bagging groceries without damaging items, helping customers with merchandise and loading bags into cars, maintaining shelves and store areas, returning merchandise, gathering carts, supporting seasonal merchandise, and answering customer questions. The associate also follows safety and food-safety procedures, reports unsafe conditions or equipment needing repair, and complies with applicable laws and company guidelines. The position requires cooperation in a fast-paced environment, appropriate conflict management, honesty when handling customer and business information, and support for customers including minors, people with special needs, and older adults. Essential functions must be performed with or without reasonable accommodation. Applications are accepted continuously; submissions are reviewed and applicants may be contacted when a suitable position becomes available.

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 honestly and with integrity regarding customer and business information.
Ability to follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues.
Ability to perform essential functions 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 and following best practices for reusable, plastic, and paper bags.
Help remove customers’ merchandise from the bottom of the bascart at 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.
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 for preventive maintenance and notify the appropriate department or store manager of items needing repair.
Welcome customers and answer questions about products in the department and throughout the store.
Follow local, state, and federal laws and company guidelines.
Work cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment.
Manage conflict in a reasonable, nonconfrontational, and cooperative manner.
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.