
Grocery APC Clerk
Puyallup, WAJob$17.38–26.85/hrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Job overview
The Grocery APC Clerk supports grocery department operations while helping customers find products, learn about specials, and receive the items they need. The role includes stocking and inventorying merchandise, checking freshness, maintaining food-safety and temperature standards, and reporting discrepancies or equipment concerns. The clerk also contributes to a welcoming, safe store environment and supports the department manager in meeting sales, profit, and quality goals.
Skills & qualifications
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Full job description
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 Essential Job Functions:
·Grocery Clerk helps customers discover new items or products they inquire about.
·Grocery Clerk informs customers of food specials and recommends grocery items to customers to ensure they get the products they want and need.
·Check product quality to ensure freshness. Review "sell by" dates and take appropriate action.
·Grocery Clerk provides customers with fresh and non-perishable grocery products that they have ordered.
·Recommend grocery items to customers to ensure they get the products they want and need.
·Check product quality to ensure freshness. Review "sell by" dates and take appropriate action.
·Label, stock, and inventory department merchandise.
·Report product ordering/shipping discrepancies to the department manager.
·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.
·Gain and maintain knowledge of products sold within the department and be able to respond to questions and make suggestions about products.
·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.
·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.
·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 older adults.
·Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.
QUALIFICATIONS Minimum Position Qualifications:
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Customer Service skills
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Effective communication skills
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Knowledge of basic math (counting, addition, and subtraction)
Desired Previous Job Experience:
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Customer Service skills
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Retail experience
$17.38 - $26.85 per hour
How this job compares
Set against the 516 open Grocery Clerk jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$17.38–26.85/hr
- US median$17–20/hr143 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $22.12/hr, is 20% above the US median midpoint ($18/hr) — in the top quarter of Grocery Clerk hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 16 open Grocery Clerk jobs in Washington and 516 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Kroger Family of Companies (this employer)439 open
- Price Chopper18 open
- Hy-Vee11 open
- Education
- 2 of the 516 open Grocery Clerk jobs (under 1%) 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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