Grocery Associate - Part Time

Looking for Part TimeGrocery Associates - Join a thriving cooperative grocery community, present an appealing, clean, and fully stocked department to optimize the customer experience throughout their time shopping in the store.

Reports To: Grocery Manager

FLSA Status: Non-exempt
Starting Wage Scale: $13.70 - $14.70/hour (depending on experience)

Benefits: including paid time off, sick pay, supplemented health insurance, employee discount, commuter benefit

Grocery Associates are primarily responsible for presenting an appealing, clean, and fully stocked grocery department to optimize the customer experience through their time shopping.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Customer Experience

• Exceed our customers' expectations for service and provide a welcoming environment for all people and all diverse backgrounds
• Model, provide, and ensure customers receive prompt, friendly, and courteaous services in a professional manner that demonstrates our cooperative advantage.
• Offer suggestions for purchases and ways to prepare products.

Grocery

• Stock, displays, shelves, bins, coolers, and freezers fully without overcrowding; face items on shelves.
• Rotate stock accordign to established procedures.
• Pull short-date or low-quality items and dispose of them according to department guidelines.
• Dispose of damaged or spoiled goods promptly, according to department guidelines and properly maintain shrink records
• Unload deliveries and check-in orders.
• Rotate stock into storage. Maintain storage system in backroom.
• Assist with processing of special orders
• Ensure that department areas are in clean, orderly condition, meeting health department standards and items are fully stocked, faced, and in excellent condition for purchase.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Language ability - comprehend complex instructions, correspondence, and memos.
• Communicate effectively and respecfully in oral or written from to staff and customers of diverse backgrounds.
• Regular, predictable attendance.
• Customer service skills - ability to manage difficult or emotional customer situations. Communicate responsibly.
• Respond promptly to requests for customer assistance.
• Quality of work - demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness. Apply feedback to improve performance.
• Quality of work - work quickly and accurately wiht a sense of urgency.
• Preferred - experience in or knowledge of the natural food industry.

DISCLOSURE NOTICE

The job duties, elements, responsibilities, skills, functions, experience, educational factors and the requirements and conditions listed in this job description are representative only and not exhaustive of the tasks that an employee may be required to perform. The employer reserves the right to revise this job description at any time and to require employees to perform other tasks as circumstances or conditions of its business, competitive considerations, or the work environment change.