Courtesy Clerk/Grocery Bagger

Kroger•Bothell, WA

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 values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. This role supports customers and store operations through grocery bagging, customer assistance, shelf conditioning, merchandise returns, cart gathering, cleaning, and other assigned duties. The position requires following safety and food-safety guidelines, communicating effectively, and working cooperatively in a fast-paced environment. Essential functions must be performed with or without reasonable accommodation.

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.
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 preventing damage to merchandise.
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 about 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.
Adhere to food-safety regulations and guidelines.
Inspect equipment as part of preventive maintenance and notify the appropriate department or store manager of needed repairs.
Answer customers’ questions about products in the department and throughout the store, helping them 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 reasonably, cooperatively, and without confrontation.
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.