Store Clerk & Sorter

Job Details

Job Location:

AOK-Mountain Home Thrift - MTN HOME, AR 72653

Job Category:
Store

• Assists customers purchasing items from The Salvation Army by ringing-up sales utilizing a cash register
• Collects monies, counts change and prepares receipts
• Prepares and packages purchased items
• Prepares and balances the cash drawer and runs routine register print-outs
• Prepares and delivers bank deposits
• Ensures the security and accountability of all cash register funds and sales records in accordance with established operating procedures
• Prepares, processes and maintains various sales records, tax forms, and social service vouchers
• Prepares routine sales reports as directed
• Maintains the neatness and security of the cash register area
• Ensures that forms, bags, etc. are adequately stocked
• Assists customers by explaining store policy and responding to questions regarding the pricing and/or purchasing of items
• Ensures that all customers visiting the store have a pleasant experience
• Assists customers who are donating items to The Salvation Army
• Directs customers to the proper loading/unloading area
• May assist with hauling donations to the storage area
• Prepares and provides tax receipts as needed
• Places and arranges items in the store as directed
• Checks all store displays to ensure that items are maintained and displayed in a neat and orderly manner
• Rotates and/or rearranges stock as directed
• Returns items to the proper location after customers have handled
• Answers the store telephone in a tactful and courteous manner
• Assists customers by responding to questions and providing directions and/or general information
• May schedule and record donation pick-ups
• Cleans all display racks and shelves
• Sweeps and mops floors
• Cleans windows and mirrors
• Ensures that the store is maintained in a clean and inviting manner
• Opens and/or closes store door in accordance with the store schedule

• Receives, inspects and sorts donated items such as clothes, shoes, household items, bric-a-brack, etc. according to the category and condition
• Selects items suitable for store display and distributes same to appropriate area for further sorting and/or pricing; discards items in accordance with established procedures
• Tags items with specially coded tickets and/or prices in accordance with established procedures
• Hangs clothes on hangers and places same on clothes racks
• Packs items in boxes and marks boxes accordingly; assists in transporting boxes to appropriate storage area
• Prepares non-suitable clothes for the bailer
• Lifts and carries items to the appropriate destination for further processing, storage or displaying in store
• Maintains warehouse area in a neat and orderly manner; cleans floors, tables and work area

• Assists in pricing and tagging items in the store in accordance with established procedures
• Assists customers in carrying purchased/donated items in/out of the store
• Assists in disaster relief projects as needed
• Monitors volunteers working in the Thrift Store and warehouse
• May assist in answering the telephone; provides general information and records messages
• May assist in preparing receipts for donations
• Help to keep the bathrooms and dressing rooms cleaned
• Performs other related work as required

• Ability to meet attendance requirements
• Ability to read, write and communicate in the English language
• Ability to perform mathematical computations and count change
• Ability to perform frequent waling and/or standing, kneeling, or squatting relieved by lesser periods of sitting
• Ability to lift and carry and/or push/pull light objects (less than 25 pounds)
• Moderate mobility: duties are usually performed by combinations of sitting, standing or waling on a frequent change basis. Distance of travel is usually within the same building
• Ability to operate a cash register

Work is performed in a normal store environment where there are little or no physical discomforts associated with changes in weather

Work is performed in a warehouse environment where there are physical discomforts associated with changes in weather or discomforts associated with noise, dust, dirt, and the like

Education and Experience:

High School diploma or GED and experience working in a retail store preferred. OR any equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.

None.