Assistant Grocery Manager
Albany, NYJob$18–27/hrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
The Assistant Grocery Manager assists with grocery department operations, including merchandising, pricing, stocking, ordering, and inventory. The role supports the Grocery Manager in financial performance, oversees department clerks, and helps train new associates. It also involves customer service, sanitation and pricing compliance, unloading merchandise, and controlling shrink.
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Full job description
Pay Range: $18.00- $27.00
SUMMARY
Provides fast, friendly, helpful and efficient service to all Price Chopper customers. Responsible for assisting with the operation of the grocery department. Assists the Grocery Manager with budgeted and achievement of financial aspects of the department. Oversees clerks within department and monitors for proper merchandising, rotation and inventory levels of grocery product to promote an optimal opportunity for sales.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Consistently work to provide fast, friendly, helpful and efficient customer service at all times.
Responsible for smiling, making eye contact and thanking customer upon fulfilling customer's request.
Maintain a neat, clean and organized workstation, according to 5S standards, at all times.
Assist the Grocery Manager with the day-to-day operation of the department to include product merchandising, pricing, stocking, signing, plan-o-grams, displays, rotation and inventory levels.
Assist with the ordering of all merchandise and supplies for the Grocery department and meeting transmission times. Store excess product in back room or designated area.
Responsible for maintaining a high level of customer courtesy and service at all times within the total store.
Front end services may be required as business needs necessitate.
Ensure that all company and state sanitation and pricing procedures and regulations are adhered to within grocery operations.
Unload warehouse merchandise from trucks.
Assist with the training and development of all new associates in grocery operations.
Responsible for the store at the need and discretion of the store manager.
Control shrink through adherence to related policies and procedures.
Perform other related duties as assigned by management and adhere to all company policies and procedures.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Must be at least 18 years of age. Ability to manage others and demonstrate follow-through to achieve desired results and objectives.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Satisfactory performance reviews. Basic computer skills. Strong communication skills. High School Degree or equivalent. 6-12 months of related experience.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
EQUIPMENT USED
Our Company does not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, affection or sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, liability for military service, status as a veteran, gender identity or expression, genetic information, pregnancy, and any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
Should your hours and availability better fit the needs of another store or desired shift, we may consider your application for another location or shift.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,238 open Retail Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$18–27/hr
- New York median$19–24/hr81 hourly ranges
- US median$19–23/hr1,129 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $22.50/hr, is 3% above the New York median midpoint ($22/hr) — in the middle half of Retail Management hourly ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 180 open Retail Management jobs in New York and 3,238 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- Byrne Dairy & Deli43 open
- Price Chopper (this employer)12 open
- 7-Eleven7 open
- Experience
- Retail Management postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (1,606 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 1,391 of the 3,238 open Retail Management jobs (43%) ask for a high school diploma 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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