Loader, Retail, Retail Associate​/ Customer Service

This position will be responsible for assisting customers to their cars with their items, unloading delivery trucks, stocking shelves, loading bulk items/bags, and assisting with any additional duties.

MRT Lawn and Garden Center is currently hiring qualified applicants for both the Venice and Port Charlotte locations.

Include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Provide a positive representation of MRT Lawn and Garden Center.
• Proactively assist customers in solving problems.
• Greet customers entering and throughout the store. Thank customers when finished and when they are leaving the store.
• Possess a friendly outgoing demeanor; work well with customers as well as associates.
• Ensure all pages and calls are answered promptly, courteously and effectively.
• Forward any customer complaint that cannot be handled to a member of management.
• Possess strong product knowledge and knowledge of store layout and location of products.
• Assist customers throughout the store with personal, customized service based on the premise of amazing every customer, every time.

High School or GED equivalent.

Standing, walking, lifting (up to 50lbs) and climbing.

Notice to Applicant about this

Employer:

You are applying for a job with an independently owned cooperative member of Ace Hardware Corporation, who operates this Ace Hardware store, not Ace Hardware Corporation. The independent store owner alone is responsible for and independently makes all decisions concerning employment related matters, including hiring, firing, discipline, supervision, staffing and scheduling. Ace Hardware Corporation will not receive a copy of any applications submitted for this position, and will have no control over interviews and/or hiring decisions, does not control and is not responsible for the employment policies and practices of the independent store owner.

If hired, the independent store owner will be your only employer. Ace Hardware Corporation is not the employer for this position. The Ace Hardware trademarks, logos and designs are owned by Ace Hardware Corporation and used by independent store owners under a license from Ace Hardware Corporation.

MRT ACE Lawn and Garden Center has been family owned and operated in Venice, FL since 2003. With locations in Port Charlotte and South Venice, the MRT family is excited to announce the opening of a store in North Venice in 2025. Want to grow alongside Florida's largest and most tropical independently owned garden center? Apply to join the MRT family today!