Frozen Food/Clerk

Kroger•Warren, MI

12d

About The Position

Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service and maintain a safe, clean environment that encourages customers to return. Assist the department manager in reaching sales and profit goals and monitor established quality assurance standards. Embrace the Customer 1st strategy, encourage associates to deliver excellent customer service, and demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The role involves helping customers with frozen food products, maintaining product quality and department merchandise, following food safety and safety procedures, and supporting store management as needed. The position requires working cooperatively in a fast-paced, sometimes stressful environment and providing support through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults. Essential functions must be performed with or without reasonable accommodation.

Requirements

Ability to handle stressful situations.
Effective communication skills.
Knowledge of basic math, including counting, addition, and subtraction.
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.
Second language skills (speaking, reading, and/or writing).

Responsibilities

Promote trust and respect among associates.
Create a welcoming environment by answering customer questions about products sold in the department and throughout the store.
Maintain knowledge of department products, answer questions, and make suggestions.
Inform customers of frozen food specials and recommend items to help them find products they want and need.
Check product quality and freshness, review sell-by dates, and take appropriate action.
Label, stock, and inventory department merchandise.
Report product ordering or shipping discrepancies to the department manager.
Maintain a positive attitude and stay current with present, future, seasonal, and special advertisements.
Follow food safety regulations and guidelines.
Maintain proper temperatures in cases and coolers and keep temperature logs.
Follow safety procedures, identify unsafe conditions, and notify store management.
Inspect equipment as part of preventive maintenance and report items needing repair to the appropriate department or store manager.
Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
Report safety risks or issues and illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.
Work cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment.
Manage conflict in a reasonable, nonconfrontational, and cooperative manner.
Act honestly and with integrity regarding customer and business information.
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.