Retail Sales Associate Part Time

Ace-Hardware; Carmel (IN); On-site; USD 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays

Employee discount 15% off regular-pric

Cost plus 3% for $50+ items for you/f­

Job summary

White's Ace Hardware is looking for friendly helpers to assist neighbors with their projects. You’ll greet customers, learn their needs, and guide them to the right hardware, paint, and lawn-and-garden items while sharing practical advice.

You’ll stock shelves, keep the floor tidy, and rotate through the Helpful Hub. If you enjoy helping people and learning, this is a great place to start a lasting career with a local, family-owned store.

Qualifications

• Help customers with projects and find the right items for them.
• Hardware knowledge is helpful; curiosity and follow-through matter.
• You may work in different departments like hardware, paint, lawn & garden, and the Helpful Hub.

Responsibilities

• Assist customers with their projects and questions.
• Walk customers to products and explain options instead of pointing to aisles.
• Stock shelves and keep the floor neat between customer interactions.

Skills

Customer service

Hardware knowledge

Willingness to learn

Stocking shelves

Job description

Work the White’s WayReady to help your neighbors? Wear the red vest. We'll teach you the rest.White's is an independently owned Ace store, run by the White family since 1977. In all three of our stores, we greet customers right away, ask what they're working on, and stay with them until they have a real answer.What you'll doMost of your day is spent helping customers with their projects. Ask what they're working on and walk them to what they need instead of pointing to an aisle. You'll help across hardware, paint, lawn and garden and the rest of the store, and take your turn at the Helpful Hub. Between customers, stock shelves and keep the floor ready.Who this work suitsYou don't need to know every product on day one. You do need to like helping people work through a project and be willing to say \"let's find out\" when you don't know. Hardware knowledge helps; curiosity and follow-through matter more. If you'd rather spend less of your day with customers, ask us about our support roles.Paid holidays. Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. We also close at 5 p.m. on Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.A real employee discount. 15% off regular-priced items, and cost plus 3% on anything $50 or more, for you and the family you live with.Raises you can see coming. A pay review every year, based on customer service, operations and training goals posted in the breakroom.A team bonus twice a year. When your store hits its sales growth target and its goals, the whole team shares in it, up to two weeks' pay.Retirement savings. A SIMPLE IRA with a company match of up to 3% of your pay once you qualify for the plan.Pay reviews, bonus, paid time off and benefits begin after your first 60 days.