Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger

The Kroger Co.•Streator, IL

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 core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety of others. The position bags groceries, assists customers with merchandise and loading groceries into their vehicles, maintains shelves and store areas, returns merchandise and gathers carts, and helps customers locate products or check prices. It also involves handling seasonal merchandise, following food safety and other applicable rules, inspecting equipment, and reporting safety concerns or repair needs. The associate works cooperatively in a fast-paced, sometimes stressful environment and provides support to minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.

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 groceries at checkout, aiming to place at least five items in each bag while preventing damage and following best practices for reusable, plastic, and paper bags.
Help remove 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 as part of preventive maintenance and notify the appropriate department or store manager about items needing repair.
Help customers feel welcome, important, and appreciated by answering questions about products 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 in a nonconfrontational, 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.