Cashier
Fred Meyer
About the Role
Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service. Establish and maintain a safe and clean environment that encourages customers to return. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety of others.
Key Responsibilities
- Be visible and actively greet, engage, and assist customers.
- Process customer transactions through the check lane quickly, accurately, and efficiently.
- Understand the Point of Sale (POS) system.
- Handle various tenders including Cash, Checks, Credit, Debit, SNAP EBT, Offline SNAP EBT, WIC, Rain checks, complex loyalty offers, coupons, and checkout procedures according to company policy.
- Understand and adhere to company limits on cash shortages and/or overages and work honestly and effectively to control loss.
- Understand and adhere to guidelines on restricted sale items (Alcohol, Tobacco, DVDs).
- Report pricing discrepancies to the Scan Coordinator.
- Follow established policies and procedures for postage stamps, gift cards, and coupons.
- Stay current with present, future, seasonal, and special ads.
- Adhere to all food safety regulations and guidelines.
- Reinforce safety programs by complying with safety procedures and identify unsafe conditions, accidents, or issues and notify store management.
- Practice preventive maintenance by properly inspecting equipment and notify the appropriate department or store manager of any items in need of repair.
- 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.
- Adhere to all local, state, and federal laws, and company guidelines.
- Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Point of Sale (POS) system
- Cash handling
- Check handling
- Credit/Debit card processing
- SNAP EBT
- Offline SNAP EBT
- WIC
- Rain checks
- Loyalty offers
- Coupons
- Restricted sale items (Alcohol, Tobacco, DVDs)
- Postage stamps
- Gift cards
- Food safety regulations
- Safety procedures
- Preventive maintenance
Qualifications
- Customer service experience
- Effective communication skills
- Knowledge of basic math (counting, addition, and subtraction)
- Ability to work cooperatively in a 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.
- Ability to perform essential functions with or without reasonable accommodation.
Desired Previous Job Experience
- Customer service experience
- Prior experience as a Bagger or Courtesy Clerk