ShopRite - Produce Clerk; SR of Lincoln Park NJ Range

It takes many different skills, abilities, and people to be a part of the team that operates our stores. Shop Rite believes that its associates are its best asset. Associates are provided with the knowledge, skills, and tools to be the leading retailer in our markets.

Whether it's providing world-class customer service, offering exceptional products at a competitive price, or learning the latest in merchandising and display, the company's training programs provide the individual with a solid foundation to achieve their best.

We are living our Purpose - To Care Deeply about People, Helping them to Eat Well and Be Happy. This Purpose guides everything we do and is why we are in business. We are using our service priorities - Safety, Friendliness, Presentation, and Efficiency to help us make decisions at work every day and are critical to the success of our business goals.

To deliver a great customer experience while pricing, stocking and rotating merchandise in the Produce Department; to maintain a neat, clean and visually appealing department and to perform other tasks as required in a safe and efficient manner, within Company policy.

• Ability to proficiently read, write, speak, analyze, interpret, and understand the English language.
• Ability to perform basic math.
• Ability to stand/walk for the duration of a scheduled shift.
• Ability to stand, bend, twist, reach, push, pull and regularly lift 25 lbs., and occasionally lift up to 60 lbs.
• Ability to work with fresh, dried and/or processed products, spices and powdered substances without negative consequences.
• Ability to tolerate dust and cleaning agents during routine housekeeping duties.
• Ability to work in varying temperatures.
• Ability to interact with Customers in a friendly and helpful way.
• Ability to work cooperatively with others.
• Ability to work all assigned work schedules and comply with all time and attendance policies.

• Greet all Customers and provide them with prompt, courteous service and assistance.
• Promote for sale any current charitable promotions to Customers.
• Maintain a clean, neat, organized, and safe work environment.
• Be knowledgeable in and able to differentiate between various types of produce and related merchandise including taste, seasonality, preparation method or use, and price differences between varieties of similar classes of products (i.e. different types of apples, potatoes, etc.).
• Follow approved procedures for receiving, code dating, preparing, storing, and price marking, scaling, and restocking products to ensure quality, accuracy and product rotation and protection.
• Maintain Department of Sanitation and QA standards, including sweeping, mopping, removing cardboard and refuse as needed.
• Operate a baler and compactor.
• Perform all duties in accordance with Local, State and Federal regulations as they pertain to the Produce operation.
• Performance all duties in accordance with Company rules, policies, safety requirements, and security standards and all Local, State and Federal health and civil code regulations.
• Keep display cases and other merchandising areas stocked and signed; display merchandise in an attractive, appealing, neat and colorful manner.
• Control freshness, quality and temperature of product by following safe food handling procedures.
• Handle damaged and spoiled products according to Company policy and assist in controlling the level of damaged goods.
• Regularly lift, pull, push and rotate merchandise that weights 25 lbs. and occasionally weights up to 60 lbs.
• Unload trucks and transport merchandise to Produce Department that weights 25 lbs. and that occasionally weights up to 60 lbs.
• Understand and adhere to all Country of Origin Label (C.O.O.L.) regulations for all products in the Produce Department.
• Understand and adhere to Company shrink guidelines as relates to Produce Department operations.
• Perform duties in accordance with the Company’s HCOM program and adhere to manufacturer’s label instructions for the safe and proper use of all chemical products.
• Check refrigeration equipment for…