Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger

The Kroger Co.•Perry, GA

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 involves bagging groceries carefully, assisting customers with merchandise and loading groceries, maintaining shelves and store cleanliness, returning carts and merchandise, and helping customers locate products or obtain price checks. It also includes supporting store safety and food safety practices, inspecting equipment, and following applicable laws and company guidelines. The associate works cooperatively in a fast-paced environment, handles conflict constructively, and provides support to minors, people with special needs, and older adults. Applications are accepted continuously. The team reviews submissions and contacts applicants if a position becomes available that aligns with their qualifications and organizational priorities.

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.
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.
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 about 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.
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 about items needing repair.
Answer customers’ questions about products sold 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 in a reasonable, nonconfrontational, and cooperative manner.
Act honestly and with integrity when handling customer and business information.
Follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues.
Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.
Perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.