Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger

The Kroger Co.•Crossville, TN

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 role supports customers and store operations through grocery bagging, cart collection, cleaning, shelf conditioning, returning merchandise, and answering questions. The position requires cooperation in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment and the ability to perform essential functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Applications are continuously accepted for roles like this one. The team reviews submissions and contacts applicants when 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.
  • Must be able 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 customers' groceries at checkout, striving for at least five items per bag while preventing damage.
  • Follow best practices for 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 all areas inside and outside the store.
  • Handle and assemble seasonal merchandise.
  • Learn the store layout, locate products, and conduct price checks for cashiers.
  • Reinforce safety programs by following safety procedures, identifying unsafe conditions, accidents, or issues, and notifying 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.
  • Help customers feel welcome, important, 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 with honesty and 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.

Benefits

  • Healthcare coverage, including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage through company plans or collective bargaining agreement plans.
  • Flexible scheduling in full- and part-time roles.
  • Paid time off, including holiday and sick pay based on eligibility and length of service.
  • Free counseling through the Employee Assistance Program.
  • Free, confidential financial tools and coaching with Goldman Sachs Ayco.
  • Associate discounts on purchases, including food, travel, and technology.
  • Up to $21,000 in tuition reimbursement over the course of a career through the Continuing Education program.
  • Training programs and diverse career pathways offering potential for growth.
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