Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger

Kroger•Bellingham, WA

13d

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. The associate bags groceries, assists customers with their purchases, maintains store and parking-lot cleanliness, returns merchandise and carts, and provides general customer assistance. The position requires working cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment and following safety, food-safety, legal, and company guidelines.

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.
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 groceries at checkout, aiming to place at least five items in each bag while avoiding damage to items.
Use appropriate bagging practices for reusable, plastic, and paper bags.
Assist with removing merchandise from the bottom of customers’ bascarts for 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 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, reinforce safety programs, and report unsafe conditions, accidents, or issues to store management.
Follow food-safety regulations and guidelines.
Inspect equipment as part of preventive maintenance and notify the appropriate department or store manager of items needing repair.
Help customers feel welcome and appreciated by answering questions about products in the department and throughout the store.
Follow applicable local, state, and federal laws and company guidelines.
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.