Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger

The Kroger Co.•Alsip, 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 values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety of others. Responsibilities include bagging customers’ groceries carefully, helping with checkout and loading purchases into vehicles, conditioning shelves, sharing information about specials, returning merchandise to shelves, gathering carts, cleaning store and parking lot areas, and handling seasonal merchandise. The associate also helps customers locate products, conducts price checks, reinforces safety and food safety practices, inspects equipment, and reports unsafe conditions or equipment needing repair. The position requires cooperative work in a fast-paced environment, sound judgment in managing conflict, and appropriate support for minors, people with special needs, and older adults. The essential functions must be performed with or without reasonable accommodation. Applications are accepted continuously. Submissions are reviewed regularly, and applicants may be contacted if a position becomes available that matches their qualifications and organizational priorities.

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.
Follow best practices for 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 as part of preventive maintenance and notify the appropriate department or store manager about items needing repair.
Help customers feel welcome 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 cooperatively, without confrontation.
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.