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Kroger Family of Companies is seeking a customer-focused associate in Eldon, MO to deliver exceptional service and maintain a clean, safe shopping environment. You will assist the department manager in achieving sales and profit goals, answer product questions, stock merchandise, and ensure food safety standards are met across the store.
Responsibilities include promoting a welcoming atmosphere, staying informed about ads and promotions, and reporting safety risks or discrepancies.
Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service. Establish and maintain a safe and clean environment that encourages our customers to return. Assist the department manager in reaching sales and profit goals established for the department and monitor all established quality assurance standards. Embrace the Customer 1st strategy and encourage associates to deliver excellent customer service. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety. RESPONSIBILITIES
Promote trust and respect among associates
Create an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important and appreciated by answering questions regarding products sold within the department and throughout the store
Gain and maintain knowledge of products sold within the department and be able to respond to questions and make suggestions about products
Recommend grocery items to customers to ensure they get the products they want and need; inform customers of grocery specials
Check product quality to ensure freshness; review sell by dates and take appropriate action
Label, stock and inventory department merchandise; provide customers with fresh products that they have ordered
Report product ordering/shipping discrepancies to the department manager
Display a positive attitude
Stay current with present, future, seasonal and special ads
Adhere to all food safety regulations and guidelines
Ensure proper temperatures in cases and coolers are maintained and temperature logs are maintained
Reinforce safety programs by complying with safety procedures and identify unsafe conditions and notify store management
Practice preventive maintenance by properly inspecting equipment and notify appropriate department or store manager of any items in need of repair
Notify management of customer or employee accidents
Report all safety risks/issues and illegal activity, including robbery, theft or fraud
Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation
Ability to handle stressful situations
Knowledge of basic math (counting, addition, and subtraction)
Effective communication skills
Any retail experience
Second language (speaking, reading and/or writing)