Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger

The Kroger Co.•Rifle, CO

3d•$18 - $19

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 during checkout and with loading groceries into their cars, and helps keep the store and parking lot clean, safe, and orderly. The role also includes returning merchandise to shelves, gathering and returning shopping carts, conditioning shelves, handling seasonal merchandise, informing customers about grocery specials, locating products, and performing price checks. The associate follows food safety and company guidelines, inspects equipment, reports repair needs and unsafe conditions, and provides courteous assistance to customers throughout the store. The position requires working cooperatively in a fast-paced environment, managing conflict constructively, following directions, and assisting 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 for at least five items per bag while avoiding damage to items.
Use appropriate bagging 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, accidents, or issues, and notify store management.
Adhere to 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 questions about products sold in the department and throughout the store, helping customers feel welcome, important, and appreciated.
Adhere to 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.
Handle customer and business information honestly and with integrity.
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.