Produce Clerk

The Produce Clerk is first and foremost responsible for customer relations and satisfaction. The Produce Clerk is also responsible for ensuring the department maintains its cleanliness, safety and appeal to customers (may also assist other departments in these areas on occasions). Duties include all produce processing (cutting, packaging and merchandising), sanitation, safety, and stocking procedures on all fresh produce products (fruits, wet vegetables, and dry vegetables) while removing expired products from displays. Most importantly, the Produce Clerk will make all customers feel welcomed by acknowledging or greeting each customer and providing genuine, helpful, and respectful customer service.

SOME FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Orders, receives, and merchandises produce products following proper guidelines for merchandising, rotation, sanitation, pricing, mechanizing, and quality standards.

· Consistently replenish products to ensure freshness and visibility.

· Maintains a working knowledge of all produce products as well as non-produce items throughout the store to respond to customers to ensure they get the products they want and need.

· Adequately accepts, orders, receives, prepares, packages, labels, displays, stocks, replenishes floor stock and inventories merchandise.

· Follows department procedures for processing known loss, invoices discrepancies, special orders, and transfers.

· Keeps the department orderly and clean.

· Helps customers make product selections by answering questions and providing information about all produce items.

· Ensures accurate and sanitary product processing, packaging, labeling, dating, and pricing according to department procedures.

· Prioritizes time to ensure that prep work, stocking, cleaning, and customer service are handled efficiently.

· Creates and maintains an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important, and appreciated by answering questions regarding products sold within the department and throughout the store by providing excellent customer service.

· Assists in inventory counts, storewide cleaning, and other projects as needed.

· Ensures federal, state, local and La Montañita Food Cooperative regulations and standards for product freshness, safety, refrigeration, sanitation and weights and measures are being adhered to and met.

· Maintains presentation and quality standards in the department.

· Maintains and updates as needed ServSafe® certification.