Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger

The Kroger Co.•Everett, WA

About The Position

Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service and maintain a safe, 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 customer groceries, assists customers with merchandise and loading, maintains store and parking-lot cleanliness, and supports store operations. The role requires working cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment and performing the essential functions 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 groceries at checkout, aiming for at least five items per bag while preventing damage and following best practices for reusable, plastic, and paper bags.
Assist in 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, 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.
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.
Welcome customers, answer questions about products in the department and throughout the store, and help customers feel appreciated.
Follow applicable local, state, and federal laws and company guidelines.
Manage conflict reasonably and cooperatively, act with honesty and integrity regarding customer and business information, and follow directions or seek assistance when needed.
Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.