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DRUG-GEN MDSE/CLERK

Kroger Family of Companies

Indio, CAJob$17.1–23.97/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$17.1–23.97/hr
Location
Indio, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Drug-GM merchandise clerk supports department sales and profit goals while helping create a welcoming customer experience. The role involves answering product questions, making recommendations, offering samples, and maintaining merchandise through labeling, stocking, and inventory. The clerk also monitors product dates and safety conditions, reports discrepancies and incidents, and supports customers and associates in a cooperative manner.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Retail ExperienceStress ManagementCommunicationBasic Math

Qualifications

Retail Experience

Full job description

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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • 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.

  • Offer product samples to help customers discover new items or products they inquire about.

  • Inform customers of Drug GM specials.

  • Recommend Drug GM items to customers to ensure they get the products they want and need.

  • Review "sell by" dates and take appropriate action.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Ability to work cooperatively in high paced and sometimes stressful environment.

  • Ability to manage conflict in a reasonable, nonconfrontational and cooperative manner.

  • Ability to act with honesty and integrity regarding customer and business information.

  • Ability to follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues.

  • Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and/or older adults.

  • Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Retail experience

  • Ability to handle stressful situations

  • Effective communication skills

  • Knowledge of basic math

$17.10 - $23.97 per hour

How this job compares

Set against the 6,060 open Merchandiser jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$17.1–23.97/hr
  • California median$19–23/hr231 hourly ranges
  • US median$16–17/hr4,349 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $20.54/hr, is 3% below the California median midpoint ($21/hr) — in the middle half of Merchandiser hourly ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 290 open Merchandiser jobs in California and 6,060 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
Merchandiser postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (898 postings).
Education
123 of the 6,060 open Merchandiser jobs (2%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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