Cashier, Retail

Basic Function

The checkout process represents the last interaction a guest has with our store and our brand before they head home. Cashiers play a crucial role in ensuring the last experience our guest has with us is excellent. This position requires a smile, and a positive, friendly presence. Also requires professionalism, a quick, accurate pace in checking out and bagging guest purchases.

• Greet each guest warmly;
  Engage guests in pleasant conversation
• Process zip code & email information with each transaction
• Quickly and accurately process guest purchases
• Be familiar with items that are discounted and properly apply the discount to each transaction
• Accurately follow cash register daily opening procedures and nightly closing procedures
• Close credit card machine as part of register closing procedures
• Keep registers stocked with supplies such as register tape, credit card tape, bags, staplers, staples, ect.
• Maintain a clean, neat cash wrap area
• Maintain shopping carts and baskets in designated areas
• Re-stock all returned merchandise
• If there are not guests waiting to check out, find a guest on the retail floor space to help and interact with; work to keep sales floor neat
• Light stocking of adjacent apparel spaces
• Report suspicious activity or shoplifting to Assistant Manager, Manager or Asset Protection Manager; this includes stopping guest as they exit the store if the security towers sound an alarm meaning that the guests has something in his or her
• Be accountable for completion of daily tasks list for department
• All other tasks assigned by management

• Ability to stand for long periods of time
• Light to moderate lifting is required
• Repetitive motion is also required

• Position requires team member to be at work as early as 7:00 am and stay as late as 8:30 pm. Flexibility in scheduling is required.
• Saturdays are mandatory.
• All major holidays are also a mandatory (excluding Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day)
• Wednesday and Friday of Thanksgiving Week are mandatory
• Annual Winter & Ski Event (1stSaturday in November) mandatory

Reports directly to Guest Experience 7 Culture Manager

Unclaimed Baggage is the nation’s only buyer and repurposer of lost luggage, offering a second life to a treasure trove of goods that airlines and other travel/hospitality companies have been unable to reunite with their former owners. It’s 50,000 square foot brick-and-mortar retail store in Scottsboro, Alabama draws over a million visitors a year from all 50 states and around the world.

Besides clothing, jewelry, footwear, electronics, eyewear and sporting goods, shoppers might find anything from a kimono to a shrunken head, vintage collectibles or a zebra skin, complete with ears and tail. This one-of-a-kind business has attracted media attention for decades in outlets ranging from The Today Show, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, The New York Times, Buzz Feed, Discovery Channel and more for itsever-changing array of unique items from around the world, all sold at incredible value.

The company also runs a philanthropic foundation called Reclaimed for Good, providing worldwide charities with millions of dollars’ worth of items like unsellable medical supplies and equipment, clothing, and eyeglasses. In 2020, this family-owned business celebrated its 50th anniversary and successfully launched its first online store. Within days of it’s launch,  welcomed over a million visitors to it’s site, shopping from every state in the country.

Top 10 states by e-commerce customer range from coast to coast every week, showing the strength of this unique brand. Learn about Unclaimed Baggage at  or connect online through Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

Our Mission is to: “Redeem the lost, unclaimed, and rejected for the glory of God.”
We have the stability of our 50+ year history, combined with a highly entrepreneurial mindset, constantly changing and improving for growth. Our principles are rooted in a distinctly Judeo-Christian worldview. We are not perfect and do not always get it right, but we genuinely seek to honor God in all we do.

• Integrity
  :
  Do the right thing
• Excellence
  :
  Always reach for better
• Humility
  :
  Listen and learn
• Service
  :
  Help others win
• Teamwork
  :
  Grow stronger together
• Gratitude
  :
  Choose to be thankful
• Entrepreneurship
  :
  Make it happen

The duties, responsibilities and requirements presented in this job description should no be construed as an exhaustive list of roles and responsibilities.