Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger

The Kroger Co.•Bowling Green, KY

About The Position

Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service. Establish and maintain a safe and clean environment that encourages customers to return, while demonstrating the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety of others. The Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger bags groceries, assists customers with their purchases and vehicle loading, maintains merchandise and store cleanliness, and supports safe store operations. The role also involves answering customer questions, locating products, conducting price checks, and providing direct support to minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults. Applicants must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

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, striving 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 merchandise from the bottom of customers’ bascarts for checkout.
Offer to help customers load bags into their cars.
Perform basic shelf conditioning and return merchandise to store shelves.
Inform customers of grocery specials.
Gather bascarts and return them to designated areas.
Clean spills, collect and pick up trash inside the store and in the parking lot, and 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, 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 of items needing repair.
Welcome customers and answer 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, and manage conflict reasonably and cooperatively.
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.