Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger

The Kroger Co.•East Peoria, IL

17d

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 associate bags groceries carefully, assists customers with merchandise and loading bags into their vehicles, maintains shelves and store areas, gathers carts, handles seasonal merchandise, and helps customers locate products or learn about specials. The role also supports store safety, food safety, equipment maintenance, and customer assistance throughout the store. Applicants must be able to perform the essential functions 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.

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.
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 and return merchandise to store shelves.
Inform customers of grocery specials.
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.
Understand 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 of items needing repair.
Answer customer questions about products and 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, 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 direct support and assistance to minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.