Kroger

(449) Deli Clerk

Sterling Heights, MichiganPart-time
$15.65+ hourly
About the Job
Position Summary: 
  • Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service.
  • Establish and maintain a safe and clean environment that encourages our customers to return.
  • Assist the department manager in reaching sales and profit goals established for the department, and monitor all established quality assurance standards.
  • Embrace the Customer 1st strategy and encourage associates to deliver excellent customer service.
  • Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety of others. 

Essential Job Functions:
  • Promote trust and respect among associates.
  • Create an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important and appreciated by answering 
  • questions regarding products sold within the department and throughout the store.
  • Gain and maintain knowledge of products sold within the department and be able to respond to questions and 
  • make suggestions about products.
  • Slice deli meats and cheeses to customer’s requests using proper deli equipment. 
  • Prepare deli/bakery/bistro items per customer requests using proper bakery equipment. 
  • Offer product samples to help customers discover new items or products for which they inquire about. 
  • Inform customers of deli/bakery/bistro specials.
  • Provide customers with fresh products that they have ordered and the correct portion size (or as close as 
  • possible to the amount ordered) to prevent shrink.
  • Recommend deli/bakery/bistro items to customers to ensure they get the products they want and need.
  • Use all equipment in deli/bakery/bistro such as the refrigerators, freezers, slicers, and ovens according to 
  • company guidelines.
  • Prepare food to Company standards.
  • Adequately prepare, package, label and inventory ingredients in merchandise.
  • Check product quality to ensure freshness. Review “sell by” dates and take appropriate action.
  • Properly use kitchen equipment, stove, computerized scale, fryer, steamer, robot coupe etc. 
  • Label, stock and inventory department merchandise.
  • Report product ordering/shipping discrepancies to the department manager. 
  • Display a positive attitude. 
  • Stay current with present, future, seasonal and special ads.
  • Adhere to all food safety regulations and guidelines.
  • Ensure proper temperatures in cases and coolers are maintained and temperature logs are maintained.
  • Reinforce safety programs by complying with safety procedures and identify unsafe conditions and notify store 
  • management.
  • Practice preventive maintenance by properly inspecting equipment and notify appropriate department or store
  • manager of any items in need of repair. 
  • Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
  • Report all safety risk, or issues, and illegal activity, including: robbery, theft or fraud.
  • Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation