
CUSTOMER SVC/CLERK
Staunton, VAJob$15.4/hrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Job overview
The Customer Svc/Clerk role delivers customer service, resolves concerns, and supports front-end operations. It includes checkout, associate coaching, transaction and bookkeeping tasks, and maintaining cleanliness and safety. The posting requires a high school diploma or GED, six months of related experience or training (or an equivalent combination), and customer service, interpersonal, math, judgment, and communication abilities. Familiarity with Microsoft Word and Excel is desired.
Skills & qualifications
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Qualifications
Full job description
Deliver a high level of service and excellent customer experience by resolving customer concerns. Identify and communicate opportunities that could improve operations and create a better shopping experience. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety. RESPONSIBILITIES - Demonstrate teamwork to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant working and shopping environment
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Provide friendly and efficient customer service by demonstrating sincerity, patience and respect in all customer interactions and by thanking customers for their business
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Greet customers in a genuine and friendly manner throughout the store and assist them by escorting them to products, loading/unloading heavy items and helping them to retrieve out of reach items
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Anticipate customer needs; effectively communicate with them and respond to questions and resolve issues in a timely manner to strengthen customer loyalty
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Oversee front end operations to meet or exceed sales, profit and labor goals through effective cost control, labor efficiencies, excellent service and shrink control; ensure front end cleanliness, maintenance and sanitation
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Determine work priorities and task lists to consistently maintain adequate front end conditions
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Ensure prompt, accurate customer check-out and front-end associates adhere to company policies, as well as local, state and federal laws/regulations
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Train, monitor and coach associates on all front end policies and procedures including proper handling of product, tender and coupons, scanning error procedures and price checks to reduce shrink and waste
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Communicate pricing and signage discrepancies to the pricing coordinator
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Provide back-up coverage for the service operations manager in their absence (excluding hiring and discipline)
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Gain/maintain thorough knowledge of checkout transactions policies and procedures, operations and bookkeeping: complete voids, refunds, daily exception reports, perform cash tender pickups, coin canister exchanges, till/coupon audits per company standards
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Operate equipment (e.g., scanner, register, scale, check approval machine) per company standards
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Assist with front-end functions (e.g., checkout transactions, stocking, bagging, cart collection and cleaning)
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Comply with and reinforce all food safety, sanitation and safety regulations/guidelines/procedures and programs according to company, local, state, and federal health code regulations; identify unsafe conditions and notify store management; report any illegal activity
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Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation
QUALIFICATIONS Minimum
High School Diploma or GED
6 months related experience or training; or equivalent combination of education or experience
Effective interpersonal and customer service skills
Good math skills (ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide)
Sound judgement/decision making skills
Friendly, approachable/outgoing demeanor/team player
Ability to work in a fast paced environment
Good oral and written communication skills
Desired
Familiar with Microsoft Office Word and Excel
$15.40 - $15.40 per hour
How this job compares
Set against the 75,980 open Customer Service jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$15.4/hr
- Virginia median$14–15/hr1,598 hourly ranges
- US median$17–19/hr33,668 hourly ranges
This rate, $15.40/hr, is 5% above the Virginia median midpoint ($15/hr) — in the middle half of Customer Service hourly ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,219 open Customer Service jobs in Virginia and 75,980 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- Dollar Tree298 open
- Family Dollar228 open
- McDonald's181 open
- Experience
- Customer Service postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (9,703 postings).
- Education
- 1,549 of the 75,980 open Customer Service jobs (2%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 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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