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Grocery Overnight Clerk

Kroger Family of Companies

Columbus, OHJob$15.8–17.8/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$15.8–17.8/hr
Location
Columbus, OH
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Grocery Overnight Clerk supports grocery department operations by assisting customers, maintaining product quality and inventory, and helping meet department sales and profit goals. The role includes stocking and labeling merchandise, monitoring freshness and temperatures, following food safety and safety procedures, and reporting discrepancies, hazards, and equipment issues. It also promotes a welcoming customer experience and respectful collaboration among associates.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Stress ManagementBasic MathCommunicationRetail ExperienceSecond Language

Qualifications

Ability to Perform Essential Job Functions

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. RESPONSIBILITIES

  • 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

  • Recommend grocery items to customers to ensure they get the products they want and need; inform customers of grocery specials

  • Check product quality to ensure freshness; review sell by dates and take appropriate action

  • Label, stock and inventory department merchandise; provide customers with fresh products that they have ordered

  • 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 risks/issues and illegal activity, including robbery, theft or fraud

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

QUALIFICATIONS Minimum

  • Ability to handle stressful situations

  • Knowledge of basic math (counting, addition, and subtraction)

  • Effective communication skills

Desired

  • Any retail experience

  • Second language (speaking, reading and/or writing)

$15.80 - $17.80 per hour

How this job compares

Set against the 674 open Grocery Clerk jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$15.8–17.8/hr
  • US median$17–19/hr145 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $16.80/hr, is 4% below the US median midpoint ($18/hr) — in the middle half of Grocery Clerk hourly ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 60 open Grocery Clerk jobs in Ohio and 674 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Ohio
Education
2 of the 674 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 October 27, 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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