Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger

The Kroger Co.•Bellingham, WA

13d

About The Position

Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service and help maintain a safe, clean environment that encourages customers to return. The Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger demonstrates the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety of others. The role bags groceries, assists customers with their purchases and vehicles, maintains store and parking-lot cleanliness, supports basic merchandise and shelf tasks, and helps customers and cashiers locate products and verify prices. The associate must follow safety, food-safety, legal, and company guidelines and work cooperatively in a fast-paced, sometimes stressful environment. The 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 customers’ groceries at checkout, striving to place at least five items in each bag while preventing damage.
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.
Follow safety procedures, identify unsafe conditions, accidents, or issues, and notify store management.
Adhere to food-safety regulations and guidelines.
Inspect equipment as part of preventive maintenance and notify the appropriate department or store manager when repairs are needed.
Answer customer questions about products in the department and throughout the store, helping customers feel welcome, important, and appreciated.
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 needed to resolve customer and business issues.
Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.