Grocery Night Clerk

Kroger; South Charleston (OH); On-site; USD 24,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Kroger is seeking to hire for a customer service oriented role focused on delivering an outstanding shopping experience in a store environment. The role emphasizes assisting customers, answering product questions, maintaining a safe and clean department, and supporting sales goals through strong teamwork.

The position requires excellent communication, basic math skills, and the ability to handle stressful situations. Prior retail experience and multilingual abilities are desirable assets.

Responsibilities

• Promote trust and respect among associates
• Create an environment that makes customers feel welcome and appreciated by answering questions
• Gain knowledge of products and respond to questions with suggestions
• Recommend grocery items and inform customers of specials
• Check product quality, review sell by dates, take action
• Label, stock and inventory department merchandise, provide fresh products
• Report discrepancies to the department manager
• Display a positive attitude and stay current with ads
• Adhere to food safety regulations and maintain proper temperatures
• Reinforce safety programs and identify unsafe conditions
• Inspect equipment and report items needing repair
• Notify management of accidents and safety risks

Job description

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.

• 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

Minimum

• Ability to handle stressful situations
• Knowledge of basic math (counting, addition, and subtraction)
• Effective communication skills

Desired

• Any retail experience
• Second language (speaking, reading and/or writing)