Core Store Associate (General Apply)

Core Store Associate

Come join a team that focuses on teamwork, supports a collaborative environment, puts curiosity and great ideas first, is dedicated to providing an exceptional guest experience, builds community relationships, loves food and cooking, and has fun while working hard!

The Core Store Associate is our all-around-the-store position. You'll be involved in many aspects of what makes our stores amazing! Core Store Associates may be trained in multiple areas of the store including Grocery, Produce, and Front-End. The Core Store Team is all over the store, making it awesome and taking the very best care of our guests.

To perform the job successfully, the Core Store Associate should demonstrate the following:

• Approachability! Help to create an environment where everyone feels welcomed and appreciated
• Scheduling flexibility to meet the needs of the department; this may include early mornings, evenings, weekends, and some holidays
• Interest and passion for the product (loves food and wants to learn more about it!)
• Positive attitude
• Patience
• High-energy and an ability to balance speed and accuracy
• Self-sufficiency and an ability to remain calm under a stressful situation
• Strong ability to communicate with various types of people in various ways (written, verbal, demonstration)
• Organizational skills and ability to multi-task
• Reliability; regular and punctual attendance

Essential Duties:

• Acts as a 'Guest services ambassador' and ensures that all guests are approached, and assisted in a warm, friendly and welcoming way, and that all of their needs are met
• Ensures products are properly stocked: dairy, frozen, packaged goods, bulk, and/or produce, and that all product is neatly and accurately placed on shelves and in displays, allowing for proper facings according to shelf tags and signage or merchandising directives
• Maintains all special, seasonal, and cross merchandised displays as necessary and in accordance with the monthly merchandising directive.
• Stays passionate, educated and informed regarding new products and industry trends here
• Receiving and backroom organization
• Product maintenance; ensures all product has proper representation (signage) on the shelf
• Store cleanliness and organization (sales floor, backroom, departments)
• Produce handling and preparation (stocking, culling, cutting, packaging)
• Cash handling and register operations
• General operations support as assigned
• Communication with supervisors and team

Schedule: Full-Time or Part-Time hours available

Pay: $15.50 - $16.83 per hour, (previous experience taken into consideration).

Location: 129 Market St. Williston, VT

Benefits We Are Proud Of:

• Generous store discount: 20% off grocery items, 50% off barista drinks, 30% off wellness, 20% off wine, and 10% off beer
• Full-time staff accrue 2 weeks PTO, gain an additional year (3 weeks total) on your 1st work anniversary
• Part-time staff accrue up to 40 hours of sick time a year
• Health Insurance!
• For single health benefits employee pays 25%, company pays 75%. For employee plus one or family the split is 50/50
• Full-time staff - 401(k): 100% vested from day one! Employer match: 100% match of the first 3% of the staff member's contribution. 50% match on the staff member's contribution above 3% and up to 5%.
• Well Being Program & Premium Membership access to Insight Timer app
• Employee Assistance Program
• Celtics Tickets Lottery
• Health Spending Account
• Vision Insurance & Dental Insurance
• Short Term Disability Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, & Life Insurance
• Flex Spending Accounts
• Health Spending Accounts
• Income advance program with North Country Federal Credit Union - AKA a loan program, another way we help you get money!
• Plus many more!

Healthy Living's Essential Behaviors:

• Make Someone's Day
• Move fast and be thorough
• Create a team people want to stay on
• Show Up
• "What can I do?"
• Come with a solution
• Own it
• Seek knowledge

If all of this sounds like you, please apply for a position today and begin your career with our mission, vision, and values driven company.

Healthy Living Market and Caf is an equal opportunity employer and we're proud to hire a diverse, inclusive Staff!