Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger

The Kroger Co.•Lafayette, IN

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 customer groceries, helps customers with merchandise and loading bags into their cars, maintains and cleans store and parking lot areas, returns merchandise to shelves, gathers and returns carts, and assists with shelf conditioning, seasonal merchandise, product questions, grocery specials, and price checks. The role also supports safety and food-safety practices, inspects equipment, and reports unsafe conditions or items in need of repair. Associates are expected to work cooperatively in a fast-paced environment, handle conflict constructively, follow directions, and assist customers including minors, people with special needs, and older adults.

Requirements

Customer service skills.
Effective communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Retail experience is preferred but not necessary.

Responsibilities

Bag groceries at checkout, striving to place at least five items in each bag while ensuring items are not damaged.
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 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.
Learn the store layout, locate products, and conduct price checks for cashiers.
Reinforce safety programs by following safety procedures, identifying unsafe conditions, accidents, or issues, and notifying 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.
Create a welcoming environment by answering questions about products sold 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 reasonably and cooperatively, without confrontation.
Handle customer and business information honestly and with integrity.
Follow directions and seek assistance when needed to resolve customer and business issues.
Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.
Perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.