Store Associate

About the role

Our focus is simple but meaningful, from our distribution centers to our offices — every employee of C&S and their family of companies works to help feed local families, neighbors, and communities. Join our team as a Retail Store Associate, where your pivotal role ensures the smooth and efficient operation of our store.

As a key member of our team, you'll focus on delivering exceptional customer service, whether restocking shelves, slicing deli meat, receiving product, assisting with inquiries, or processing transactions, all while maintaining a clean and inviting store environment.

Responsibilities

• Providing exceptional customer service by greeting and assisting customers in a friendly and professional manner.
• Maintain proper shelf, cooler, and case conditions such as stocking, cleaning, and rotating products within the store.
• Maintain cleanliness and sanitation in the department's cases, prep area, floors, and coolers.
• Minimizing shrinkage by ensuring all price discrepancies are resolved immediately
• Ensure all equipment is treated/maintained properly.
• Follow all food safety and sanitation procedures, including process, preparation, and packaging of food in accordance with company policies and all Federal, State, and Local regulations.
• Assist workers in other departments when the needs of the business require
• Collaborate with other departments when inter-departmental or storewide sales promotions are warranted.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.

Requirements

• Some experience in a retail store preferred
• Ability to learn, differentiate, and retain information regarding product lines/locations
• Ability to provide courteous and friendly customer service
• Ability to read
• Accurate vision

Skills

Retail store knowledge is helpful. Special skills include accurate vision, ability to learn, differentiate, and retain information regarding product lines/locations, and ability to provide courteous and friendly customer service.

Physical abilities: Frequent amounts of smelling, standing, talking, reaching, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and feeling; Constant amounts of walking, handling, lifting/carrying, and pushing/pulling loads up to 80 lb, and hearing.

Ability to operate various equipment such as mixers, ovens, fryer, proofer, pallet jack, pan washer, slicer, baler/compactor, jelly pump, computerized label machine, oven/stove, microwave, wrapping machine, pizza dough press, fryolator, slicer, toaster, computerized scales, food processor, dishwasher.

Qualifications

Attendance, Initiative, Productivity, Quality, Safety, Values

Work Environment

Store: Grocery (50F to 90F)

Company Overview

Building on its more than 100-year history in the grocery business, Piggly Wiggly continues to grow its presence with stores throughout the Midwest, South and Northeast. C&S Wholesale Grocers, LLC. operates corporate stores and services independent franchisees under a chain-style model.