Overnight Grocery Clerk

Fred Meyer; Bellingham (WA); On-site; USD 21,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Fred Meyer, Inc. is seeking team members who excel in customer service and can support department goals. You will help maintain a safe, clean shopping environment and assist the department manager in achieving sales targets while upholding our Customer 1st strategy.

The role requires strong communication, reliability, and a commitment to food safety and quality standards. You will represent our core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety in daily interactions.

Qualifications

• 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).
• Promote trust and respect among associates.
• Create an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important and appreciated by answering questions regarding products.
• Gain and maintain knowledge of products sold within the department and respond to questions.
• Recommend grocery items to customers to meet their needs and inform about specials.
• Check product quality to ensure freshness; review sell-by dates and take action.
• Label, stock and inventory department merchandise; provide customers with fresh products.
• Report product ordering/shipping discrepancies to the department manager.
• Display a positive attitude and stay current with ads.
• Adhere to all food safety regulations and guidelines.
• Ensure proper temperatures in cases and coolers; maintain logs.
• Reinforce safety programs and notify management of unsafe conditions.
• Inspect equipment and report needed repairs.
• Notify management of accidents; report safety risks and illegal activity.

Responsibilities

• Assist the department manager in reaching sales and profit goals established for the department.
• Monitor all established quality assurance standards and maintain a safe, clean environment.
• Embrace the Customer 1st strategy and encourage associates to deliver excellent customer service.
• Demonstrate the company values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.

Skills

Stress management

Basic math

Effective communication

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.

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)
• 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