GROCERY/LEAD CLERK

The Kroger Co. • Garden City, ID

5h

About The Position

The Grocery/Lead Clerk creates an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service and helps establish and maintain a safe, clean environment that encourages customers to return. The role assists the department manager in reaching department sales and profit goals and monitors established quality assurance standards. The clerk demonstrates the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

The position involves helping customers with grocery products and specials, keeping merchandise fresh, properly labeled, stocked, and inventoried, and supporting food safety and store safety procedures. The clerk must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Requirements

• Must be 18 or older.
• Ability to handle stressful situations.
• Effective communication skills.
• Knowledge of basic math, including counting, addition, and subtraction.
• Must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Nice To Haves

• Retail experience.
• A second language, in speaking, reading, and/or writing.

Responsibilities

• Promote trust and respect among associates and maintain a positive attitude.
• Create a welcoming environment for customers by answering questions about products sold in the department and throughout the store.
• Maintain product knowledge and answer questions or make product suggestions.
• Offer product samples to help customers discover items or products they ask about.
• Inform customers about grocery specials.
• Provide customers with fresh products they have ordered.
• Recommend grocery items to customers to help ensure they get the 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.
• Stay current with present, future, seasonal, and special advertisements.
• Follow food safety regulations and guidelines.
• Ensure proper temperatures in cases and coolers and maintain temperature logs.
• Comply with safety procedures, reinforce safety programs, identify unsafe conditions, and notify store management.
• Inspect equipment as part of preventive maintenance and notify the appropriate department or store manager of items needing repair.
• Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
• Report safety risks or issues and illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed