GROCERY CLERK

General Clerk- Grocery

Reports to: Grocery Manager

Starting rate of pay: $17.00/hr

Company Benefits: Flexible Hours, Employee Discount, 10 Paid Holidays (including 2 days for your birthday)*, Medical/Vision/Dental Package*, Free Life Insurance*, Vacation and Sick Leave*, Voluntary Insurance Plans (Life, Disability, Cancer, Accidental), Long Term Disability, Discounted Gym membership-(YMCA), Matching 401K*, Management Bonuses* For qualifying positions

Position Summary

Stocks merchandise and prepares displays, while maintaining a neat, clean and safe environment, while providing standard customer service.

Job Duties

• Greets customers when within ten feet and four seconds of contact
• Assists customers on the grocery floor by finding items, returns stray items to their proper area, and removes damaged products from customer view
• Stocks and rotates grocery items, while keeping all labels faced forward
• Pulls empty cardboard boxes off the shelves from around the store and bales boxes following proper equipment procedures
• Provides some cashiering and bagging help when needed, register accuracy, knows/ carries out proper register procedures
• Returns misplaced products to their appropriate area, while maintaining product freshness by returning all perishables and frozen items to their proper areas promptly
• Performs other related duties as needed as assigned by manager

Capabilities

Stand for long periods of time, very frequent walking back and forth from grocery warehouse to grocery floor

Carry up to 60 pounds, push and pull up to 1000 pounds with pallet mule, frequent motions with arms/hands to stock items, bend to fill products on lower levels

Use of proper safety procedures

Able to multitask, listen to directions and follow through independently

Able to deal with difficult customers, have good communication and observation skills

Able to work with a team and independently when needed

Job Skills

Previous experience working with the public

Able to use box cutters

Knowledge of location of products

Working knowledge of produce codes required, while able to differentiate between different produce products required when ringing

Environment

Air condition while in store, subject to outside conditions of heat, rain, and wind, chill temperatures when products need to be retrieved from chill and freezer

Very fast paced

Other

Must be at least 18 years of age to ring register and operate machinery