Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger

The Kroger Co.•Boise, ID

17d

About The Position

Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service. Establish and maintain a safe and clean environment that encourages customers to return, while demonstrating the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety of others. The Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger bags groceries, assists customers with their merchandise and loading bags into their cars, maintains store and parking lot cleanliness, returns merchandise to shelves, and gathers shopping carts. The role also includes shelf conditioning, informing customers about grocery specials, handling seasonal merchandise, answering questions, locating products, and conducting price checks. Associates follow safety and food safety requirements, inspect equipment, report unsafe conditions or needed repairs, and comply with applicable laws and company guidelines. The position requires cooperative work in a fast-paced environment and supportive interactions with 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.
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 honestly and with 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 without damaging merchandise 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.
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 or incidents, and notify store management.
Follow food safety regulations and guidelines.
Inspect equipment as part of preventive maintenance and report items needing repair to the appropriate department or store manager.
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, nonconfrontationally, 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 support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.