Product demonstrator, Retail

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Employee discounts
• Free food & snacks
• Free uniforms
• Health insurance
• Opportunity for advancement
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

The job description of a product demonstrator focuses on prompt, efficient and friendly customer service. Prepare a demonstration of a product for the customers in the store. Offers customers samples of the product, explains the product and makes suggestions for the preparation.

• Provides prompt, efficient and friendly customer service by exhibiting care, concern and patience in all customer interactions and treating customers as the most important people in the store.
• Smiles and greets customers in a friendly manner, whether the encounter takes place in the employee’s designated department or elsewhere in the store.
• Attempts to learn customers’ names and to address them by name whenever possible.
• Prepares products for sampling.
• Offers samples to customers.
• Answers customers’ product-related questions.
• Explains products and makes suggestions on preparation.
• Organizes items needed to do demonstrations.
• Ensures adequate supplies are available.
• Understands and practices proper sanitation procedures and ensures the work area is always clean and neat.
• Adheres to company policies and individual store guidelines.
• Collects and sets up products for daily demonstrations and removes products at the end of the demonstration.
• Sets up and disassembles displays at designated locations (tables, supplies).

• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Outgoing personality, willing to engage customers.
• Able to work well independently, self‑motivated and self‑managed, and as a team member.
• Basic food safety knowledge.
• Able to meet the physical requirements of the position, including heavy lifting up to 50 pounds, carrying tables and supplies, stooping, and standing on feet for long periods of time.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Grocery store or retail experience a plus.
• 1–3 years’ experience preferred.
• Dependable vehicle.
• Able to drive to various locations within Raleigh, Cary and Chapel Hill (Whole Foods/Fresh Market).
• Available Friday–Monday (6–8 hrs/day) with varied days/part‑time.
• Must be at least 21 years of age.