Job Summary: To provide excellent service with a pleasant attitude, using interpersonal skills and applying personal knowledge of products. To accurately weigh, scan and bag purchased items and receive customer payments.

Essential Functions and Duties:

• Greet customers in a friendly manner, and provide assistance to them as needed
• Maintain clean and orderly checkout areas, including candy and “last chance” items
• Count cash drawer at beginning of shift to ensure amounts are correct and that there is adequate change; balance cash drawer at end of shift
• Weigh produce, scan and bag all items accurately and in a timely fashion
• Receive customer payments accurately, including cash, check, credit, debit and EBT transactions, and WIC coupons; provide accurate change when appropriate
• Stock shelves so that items and prices are displayed properly and to Save-a-Lot’s standards; maintain adequate product at all times
• Stock merchandise as needed, including, groceries, produce, dairy, and bakery items.
• Unload merchandise coming off of vendor trucks.
• Stock entire store as needed
• Maintain overall store appearance by cleaning floors, straightening items on shelves, pulling cardboard boxes, etc.
• Ensure customer safety by keeping aisles clear, cleaning up spills, etc.
• Assist with training new clerks
• Sign for deliveries by UPS, FedEx or other courier system
• Perform other duties and tasks as required by management

Required Skills, Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent preferred
• Previous retail experience preferred
• Ability to use interpersonal skills and communicate with customers, management, vendors and co-workers in a pleasant and effective manner, including active listening and using proper grammar
• Must be proficient in basic math skills
• Must be able to safely and properly use baler, cash register, box cutter or other cutting tools, wrapper, floor scrubber and other cleaning tools

Physical Requirements and Environmental Conditions:

Employee must regularly:

• Lift up to 50 lbs to a height of 5’
• Carry up to 50 lbs a distance of 35’ on a concrete or tile floor
• Walk on a concrete or tile floor several times daily
• Stand at register for up to five (5) hours at a time
• Bend and twist when stocking shelves, picking up items from the bottom of carts or moving items
• Push and pull when retrieving carts from the parking lot and when emptying cartons and stocking shelves
• Speak and hear when communicating with customers, co-workers and supervisors
• See to scan products that are purchased and to stock items on shelves or in produce department

While performing this job, employee is exposed to inside temperatures with concrete or tile flooring and moderate noise levels. There are occasional trips outdoors in a variety of weather conditions. Commercial strength cleansers are used for periodic cleaning duties.