Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger

Kroger•Calhoun, GA

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 groceries at checkout, handles merchandise carefully, assists customers with loading bags into their cars, and supports store upkeep and customer service. The role includes gathering and returning shopping carts, cleaning store and parking-lot areas, conditioning shelves, returning merchandise, handling seasonal items, answering product questions, locating products, and conducting price checks. Associates follow safety, food-safety, maintenance, legal, and company guidelines, and work cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment. They may interact directly with minors, people with special needs, and older adults. 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.
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.

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 to items.
Use best practices when 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.
Follow food-safety regulations and guidelines.
Inspect equipment for preventive maintenance and notify the appropriate department or store manager of items needing repair.
Answer questions about products sold 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, managing conflict reasonably and cooperatively.
Handle customer and business information with honesty and 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.