Grocery Clerk

About the role

At Brookshire Grocery Company (BGC), you’re not just starting a job—you’re becoming part of something bigger. We’re here to support your goals, inspire your journey, and celebrate your wins.

Responsibilities

• Maintains full stock conditions on grocery display racks and shelves.
• Operates pallet jack to unload product from warehouse trucks and reloads trucks with return items (partners 18yrs+).
• Ensures dated product is stocked, rotated, or discarded properly if unsold.
• Inspects product for quality and maintains quality control and food safety standards.
• Colls empty cardboard boxes and other trash and places into bailer (partners 18yrs+).
• Scans items, places items on weight scale and keys produce codes, ensures correct check-out totals for customers, and maintains accurate money count in cash register drawer.
• Collects shopping carts and stores them in the cart corral.
• Keeps parking lot free of trash and debris; communicates with management any incidents, actions, or concerns occurring on store premises.
• Aids fellow partners and customers by responding to price check questions and exchanging and/or locating product.
• Promotes product sales through use of suggestive selling initiatives.
• Takes precautionary safety measures when using equipment and work tools.
• Provides friendly and customer service-oriented attitude by greeting customers, answering questions, and bagging and transporting customers’ groceries.
• Maintains clean, safe and sanitary working and shopping environment by adhering to Company safety procedures.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 18 years of age required to operate equipment.
• Partners must be 21 years of age or older to drive for Company business in accordance with the BGC Business Driver Policy.
• TABC/LACT/AATC certification required where applicable.

Skills

• Ability to memorize produce codes and tender policies and procedures.
• Ability to operate manual and electric pallet jack (partners 18 yrs+).
• Ability to count and calculate for the purpose of cash handling and sales transactions.
• Ability to effectively communicate (in written and verbal form) with customers and partners.
• Ability to work well with fellow partners and promote a team environment.
• Ability to work flexible schedules including nights, weekends and holidays.
• Must be attentive to potential hazards and remedy or place appropriate warning signs or devices around or near the hazard as soon as is reasonably possible.
• Must report any potential hazards that cannot be immediately remedied to a supervisor.

Physical Demands

• Continuously required to use close vision, distance vision, depth perception or the ability to focus.
• Continuously required to stand or walk.
• Frequently required to talk and hear.
• Frequently required to push, pull, maneuver or lift objects up to 40 lbs.
• Frequently required to bend, kneel or squat.
• Occasionally required to push, pull, maneuver or lift objects up to 75 lbs.

Work Context and Environment

• Work is generally performed in a retail store.
• Occasionally exposed to wet, slippery or damp conditions.
• Occasionally exposed to outside temperatures and weather.
• Occasionally exposed to cleaning agents.
• Quiet to moderate noise level.