Job Details

Backup Scanning Clerk

Along with their cashier/clerk duties the backup scanning clerk and scanning clerk ensures accurate product pricing as well as the proper use of UPC shelf tags, shelf signs and display signs.

Some job responsibilities include:

• Updating product pricing throughout the general department of the store.
• Pulling and using transmitted files of new items, discontinued items and new pricing.
• Ensuring all new shelf tags and signage is hung properly in a timely manner.
• Facilitating price checks, including sending pertinent messages to the pricing integrity department.
• Maintaining a positive and friendly attitude towards customers and fellow team members.
• Engaging with customers through smiles and greetings, offering product information, providing selling suggestions and always giving a genuine thank you.
• Focusing on providing fast and friendly customer service.
• Processing cash register transactions, inputting product costs, giving back change, processing checks, EBTs, WIC checks, refunds, product coupons and gift certificates.
• Understanding the importance of and monitoring product pricing, signage, and placement and the use of product shelf tags and accompanying UPC codes. Keeps clean, neat, and orderly check stand and work areas.
• Stocking store products, rotating them as necessary to ensure quality and safer. Performs other duties as needed or assigned by management.

Must be at least 18 years old. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. This description reflects management's assignment of essential functions. It does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned. This job description is subject to change at any time. Employer provides reasonable accommodations to a qualified employee that does not impose an undue hardship on the employer.

Job Qualification

• With both customers and team members, remain helpful, tactful and courteous.
• Work quickly and efficiently, sometimes with little direction, to accomplish assigned duties.
• Add, subtract, divide, multiply and perform other basic business math calculations.
• Read UPC codes, product labels, shelf signage, business forms, and posted company policies/procedures.
• Be knowledgeable of a wide variety general department products (grocery, frozen food, HBC, non-foods, liquor, DSD and dairy), including their locations in the store.
• Memorize product locations.
• Be dexterous enough with hands and fingers so as to be able to fill and rotate products quickly and use necessary equipment, including box cutters.
• Communicate openly and professionally through appropriate body language, facial expressions and speech, also communicating in writing when necessary.
• Listen to and understand verbal and non-verbal communication of customers and fellow members.
• Stand for long periods of time, bend and twist, and frequently lift and/or maneuver merchandise and supplies weighing 30 50lbs.
• Lift 50 and maneuver up to 100 lbs. while breaking down large and very heavy pallet loads of produce cases, boxes and bags.
• Operate manual and electric pallet jacks.
• Often work in walk-in refrigerated coolers.
• If called upon, scan clerks may need to learn use of cash registers.