Produce Clerk - Ready Cuts

About Sobeys

Sobeys Inc. is recognized as one of Canada's Top 100 employers, boasting over 128,000 employees at both corporate-owned and franchised stores across all ten provinces. Operating more than 1,500 locations, including banners such as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, and others, the company values community and excellence.

Shift Details

The Produce Clerk position operates from 4:00 AM to 12:00 PM.

Role Overview

As a Produce Clerk, your role is essential in ensuring customers find the fresh produce they seek quickly and easily, fostering customer loyalty. You'll receive full training for all responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Adhere to company policies, procedures, and standards at all times.
• Welcome customers with friendliness and politeness.
• Deliver outstanding customer service aligned with Safeway's programs.
• Stock produce and related items (including frozen, perishable, and non-perishable products) on shelves.
• Create and maintain merchandise displays per company guidelines.
• Rotate products to ensure freshness.
• Load and unload products for the sales floor.
• Manage backroom inventory and related tasks.
• Use cash register for customer transactions when providing relief during busy periods.
• Complete other duties as assigned by the Store Manager.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Quick learner with adaptability.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced work environment.
• Highly motivated and team-focused.
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Strong customer service orientation.
• Commitment to safe work practices.
• Flexible availability, including evenings, weekends, and Sundays (specific to Alberta).

Physical Demands

• Repeatedly lift items weighing up to 20 pounds.
• Constant reaching and gripping motions.
• Frequent activities like bending, walking, standing, twisting, pushing, and pulling.
• Occasional lifting of between 20 to 50 pounds.
• Intermittent use of computers and point-of-sale systems.
• Occasional crouching, kneeling, and squatting.

Employee Benefits

Sobeys offers a comprehensive Total Rewards package that may include health and dental benefits, retirement savings programs with options like Employee Share Ownership Plan, a 10% in-store discount at participating banners, virtual healthcare services, Employee and Family Assistance Program, learning and development opportunities, parental leave top-up, and paid vacation. Compensation is competitive and based on qualifications, experience, and internal equity.

Additional Information

• External sources may share salary details for comparison but are not verified by Sobeys.
• AI tools may assist in parts of candidate screening and recruitment but do not influence hiring decisions, which rest solely with hiring teams.
• Sobeys promotes accessible and inclusive hiring and accommodates applicants at any recruitment stage as needed.
• Successful candidates are required to provide valid documentation confirming their legal right to work prior to commencing employment.