Grocery Clerk

Kroger - Edgewood, WA

Part-time - Entry Level

Edgewood, WA

101-250 employees

Food and Beverage Retailers

About the position

The Grocery Clerk position at Fred Meyer focuses on delivering outstanding customer service while maintaining a safe and clean environment. The role involves assisting the department manager in achieving sales and profit goals, ensuring quality assurance standards are met, and promoting a customer-first strategy. The Grocery Clerk is responsible for engaging with customers, providing product recommendations, and ensuring the freshness and quality of grocery items.

Responsibilities

• Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service.
• Establish and maintain a safe and clean environment that encourages customer return.
• Assist the department manager in reaching sales and profit goals.
• 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 of others.
• Help customers discover new items or products they inquire about.
• Inform customers of food specials and recommend grocery items to ensure they get the products they want and need.
• Check product quality to ensure freshness and review 'sell by' dates.
• Label, stock, and inventory department merchandise.
• Report product ordering/shipping discrepancies to the department manager.
• Display a positive attitude and 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 kept.
• Gain and maintain knowledge of products sold within the department and respond to questions.
• Create an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important, and appreciated.
• Reinforce safety programs by complying with safety procedures and identifying unsafe conditions.
• Practice preventive maintenance by inspecting equipment and notifying management of repairs needed.
• Notify management of customer or employee accidents and report safety risks or illegal activity.

Requirements

• Customer service skills
• Ability to handle stressful situations
• Effective communication skills
• Knowledge of basic math (counting, addition, and subtraction)

Nice-to-haves

• Retail experience

Benefits

• Opportunities for career growth
• Flexible scheduling options
• Employee discounts
• Health and wellness programs