Retail Sales Associate - FT

usfoods; Meridian (ID); On-site; USD 19,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

CHEF'STORE Sales Associate in Meridian provides excellent customer service, helping customers locate products and using the CHEF'STORE Way training to promote a superior store experience.

This full-time role includes cash handling at the POS, stocking shelves, inventory checks, price changes, and maintaining a clean, safe retail environment. Availability is required for early mornings, weekends, and holidays.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to deliver guest-focused service.
• Experience handling cash transactions accurately.
• Experience stocking shelves and merchandising products.
• Proficiency with POS systems and basic software tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maximize relationships with customers at the front end.
• Perform sales and cash functions at the POS with accurate scanning and pricing.
• Transfer carts and check receipts to ensure purchase accuracy and prevent tampering.
• Receive inventory and stock shelves, rotate stock, and assist with price changes.
• Maintain cleanliness and safety of the store, assist with opening/closing duties and inventory counts.

Skills

Customer service

Cash handling

Stocking & merchandising

POS operation

Excel

Word

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

POS system

Job description

Join Our Community of Food People!

The CHEF'STORE Sales Associate helps maintain an atmosphere of superior customer service, promoting the US Foods strategy: Great Food, Made Easy. We rely on our team to promote and exemplify the US Foods Cultural Beliefs: Deliver Excellence, Stop Waste, WIN Together, Speak Up and You Matter. As a key member of our team, you will fill a variety of roles, including Cashier, Stocker, and Customer Courtesy, and must be passionate about service and model this behavior in all aspects of job performance.

We Help You Make It!

Schedule: Full-Time

30--40 Hours weekly

Availability to be scheduled between 5AM-7:30PM Needed

Weekends and Holidays Required

Pay Starting at: $16.50 per hour

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Front End:

• Ensure all customers have an impeccable CHEF'STORE experience by developing and maximizing relationships with the store's customers. Utilize all tools and skills learned in the CHEF'STORE Way training and model the behavior in the store.
• Perform sales and cash functions in the POS in an efficient and accurate manner. This includes scanning merchandise, by utilizing a held-held scan gun or 10 keypad, weighing product on countertop scales as necessary, and looking up any product that will not scan. Ensure that each item's barcode is accurately reflected in the system and report any discrepancies to Front End Lead or Manager of Day (MOD).
• Perform cart-to-cart transfer of all products at checkout, including a visual inspection to look for product tampering.
• Perform duties as receipt checker; verifying cart content vs. purchases, as customers leave the store.
• Perform store opening and/or closing functions at the front end based on assigned shift.

Sales Floor and Stocking:

• Ensure a continuing focus on increasing sales and managing shrinkage. Work with customers to ensure they find the products they need and are made aware of all the other services available to them in the store.
• Assist in receiving inventory shipments and maintaining and stocking shelves in a neat and orderly fashion while also ensuring proper rotation and product quality audits. Report any low stock levels to store management.
• Ensure all merchandise is properly labeled. This includes blaster tagging unscannable merchandise, applying catch weight labels to all merchandise sold by the pound, and affixing plu tags to produce items.
• Replenish sales floor daily by down stocking freight from top stock. Ensure that the oldest product is brought down first and stocked in accordance with FIFO. Each out product as necessary. Reach trucks and pallet jacks will be used in the movement of product and stocking.
• Utilize computer programs such as Microsoft Word and Excel, and proprietary software as needed.
• Ensure all products are easily accessible, visually appealing, and constantly available.
• Assist with price changes as directed by the Pricing Lead and Store Management.
• Assist in the opening and closing duties of the store.
• Participate in the inventory and cycle count process as needed.

Customer Courtesy:

• Ensure that the facility is well maintained and is a safe environment for staff and customers by following safety policies and practices. Notify store management of any safety issues in the store, correct if possible.
• Ensure the cleanliness of the sales floor, front end, and restrooms. Utilize cleaning equipment to assist in these duties.
• Ensure the cleanliness of the parking lot and store entry area.
• Gather carts from the parking lot and cart corrals and bring them back to the designated area. Ensure all are clean and operable.
• In addition to the above duties, you may be responsible for other duties and responsibilities as assigned or required by Store Management.

SUPERVISION:

• N/A

RELATIONSHIPS

• Internal: The incumbent is required to interact with employees at all levels of responsibility throughout the company.
• External: The incumbent is required to interact with customers and other service and product providers.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Work is performed in a retail store setting, open to the public. While performing the duties of this job, exposure to outside weather conditions which can include inclement weather. The noise level in the work env