Produce Sales Associate

Produce Sales Associate

Requirements

• Completed or working towards a High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED)
• No prior experience required.

Responsibilities

• Keeps produce department well stocked and appealing to meet customer demands.
• Smiles and greets customers, answers customer questions, handles special requests such as filling orders for fruit baskets and resolves customer concerns promptly in a polite and professional manner.
• Unpacks cartons and crates of merchandise, cleans and trims produce, stocks area with new merchandise.
• Ensures merchandise is in saleable condition which requires rotating stock to ensure freshness.
• Ensures that product has been properly priced with correct signage.
• Maintains salad bar and cut fruit/vegetable as needed.
• Assists in building attractive displays.
• Accurately completes necessary product logs.
• Handles spoiled and damaged product, new items and discontinued items accordingly to company policy.
• Responsible for general sanitation in the department.
• Follows cleaning schedules and department guidelines to ensure that work areas, equipment, counters, display cases, etc. are well maintained, clean and meet all health and OSHA requirements.
• Disposes of trash properly.
• Assists in minimizing shrink and controlling damages.
• Reports shortages and overages to manager.
• May assist with receiving, unloading, checking-in, breaking-down, and storing deliveries through operation of power jack or hand jack if properly trained.
• May assist with baling cardboard or other related duties if properly trained.
• Ensures smooth function of department and store by cooperating with co-workers and superiors.
• Responsible to continuously improve job performance.
• Responsible for utilization of all company provided Personal Protected Equipment (PPE).
• May also be called upon to assist in other departments.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.