Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger

The Kroger Co.•Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

11d

About The Position

Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service. Establish and maintain a safe and 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 groceries at checkout, assists customers with their merchandise and loading bags into their cars, and helps maintain store and parking-lot cleanliness and safety. The role also includes shelf conditioning, returning merchandise to shelves, gathering and returning carts, handling seasonal merchandise, informing customers of grocery specials, locating products, and conducting price checks. Associates answer customers' questions and provide support to minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults. They follow food safety rules, company guidelines, applicable laws, and safety procedures, and report unsafe conditions or equipment needing repair.

Requirements

Customer service skills.
Effective communication skills.
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, striving to place at least five items in each bag while ensuring items are not damaged.
Follow best practices when bagging items in 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 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.
Adhere to 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 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 necessary to resolve customer and business issues.
Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.