Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger

Kroger•Flushing, MI

About The Position

Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service and help 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 assists customers at checkout and with loading groceries, maintains store and parking lot cleanliness, returns merchandise and carts, and supports store operations by conditioning shelves, checking prices, and handling seasonal merchandise. The role includes following safety and food-safety requirements, inspecting equipment, and providing courteous assistance to customers throughout the store. Applicants must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation. Applications are continuously accepted, and applicants may be contacted when a suitable position becomes available.

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 honestly and with 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 to items.
Use appropriate bagging practices for reusable, plastic, and paper bags.
Assist with removing merchandise from the bottom of customers' bascarts 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 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 report items needing repair to the appropriate department or store manager.
Answer questions about products in the department and throughout the store, helping customers feel welcome, important, and appreciated.
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.
Handle customer and business information honestly and with integrity.
Follow directions and seek assistance when needed to resolve customer and business issues.
Provide direct support and assistance to minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.