Hi so I am starting my first day working at Kroger as a Courtesy Clerk in Front End. I am 16 in high school, and this is my first job so I am excited. Well could someone tell me like the do's and don'ts and what to expect, and also some bagging tips. I was told to build walls in your bags, but I know that most of the time I'm now gonna have like boxes of cereals to make the walls with. So yeah I know I am gonna suck at bagging, I have no problem with doing price checks and getting carts out the parking lot but cleaning is something I am not gonna look forward to. I have no experience in cleaning big bathrooms lol but yea could someone give me some advice, and what should I do on my first day? Do I go to the manager and tell them its my first day or do I just go to a random check out lane and start bagging.
Just get out there and do some damage. As for cleaning the bathrooms, well, it really is a no-experience-necessary responsibility. How comfortable are you with human feces? Wear gloves.
Hi! Try to learn where things are in the store as soon as you can. See if the cashier has a list of what's on each aisle. Keep that with you, you will need it. Someone will show you how to clean the restrooms. As far as bagging, it's not hard, you will learn it quickly. Just be sure to bag raw meat and chicken separate from other grocery items, same for Raid, cleaners, etc.
Oh, and don't keep asking the cashier to hand you stuff, wait until it comes down the belt toward you. (I'm a cashier, I hate it when they do that.)
Just listen and do what you are told. Smile, be polite to everyone and have fun!
If like my store you won't be left by yourself on your 1st day.... Because at my store you get 3 days training... The cleaning is pretty basic stuff like floor sweeps, emptying trash but you may have be 18 because some stores have trash compactors and not dumpsters.. Bathrooms will be the hardest cleaning thing you have to do and they are not that hard to do.
Ugh, it's hard to tell you things over the net but the "make walls" thing never really works out unless you're dealing with paper or canvous bags. The one thing you need to keep in mind is never EVER bag non-food items with food. Cold with cold, frozen with frozen, Warm with warm, hot with hot. For pet food try to keep it by itself but if it will fit with non-food put it in with them... Try not to put pet food with people food.
Normally, on your very first two days they have you do computer training. That will take about 16 hours (2 work days) to finish then you'll get put on the floor with someone who will need to show you around the store, where chemicals are stored, where your spill magic/safety carts are, teach you about the restroom logs, and how to fill out the safety check sheet.
There are many more smaller things that you'll need to pick up on within your first week and it's going to be tough because there are times when people will throw you out on the floor and say "good luck".
In any case, If there are things you are unsure about ask your supervisor or a vet clerk for help... most people are very nice but you'll run into the mean types too. Try to fit in the best you can and you should be fine.
Best of luck and welcome to Kroger!
[Edit:] Some more advice I thought of: After you fill out your first bit of paperwork - DON'T SIGN ANYTHING EXCEPT YOUR PAYSTUB!, Always do what your manager says unless it will put your life in danger, and Do your best for your 45 day probationary period then you can slack off as much as you like and it will be a chore for them to fire you. heh.
-- Edited by BagBoy on Wednesday 17th of December 2014 09:07:11 AM
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Hi so I am starting my first day working at Kroger as a Courtesy Clerk in Front End. I am 16 in high school, and this is my first job so I am excited. Well could someone tell me like the do's and don'ts and what to expect, and also some bagging tips. I was told to build walls in your bags, but I know that most of the time I'm now gonna have like boxes of cereals to make the walls with. So yeah I know I am gonna suck at bagging, I have no problem with doing price checks and getting carts out the parking lot but cleaning is something I am not gonna look forward to. I have no experience in cleaning big bathrooms lol but yea could someone give me some advice, and what should I do on my first day? Do I go to the manager and tell them its my first day or do I just go to a random check out lane and start bagging.
Hahaha, no comment. Well...maybe one later.
I don't know why I keep reading about courtesy clerks cleaning bathrooms, by the way. At my store, it's a courtesy clerk, yes. But a courtesy clerk acting as "utility clerk" for that particular time period he or she is clocked in for work.
Hi so I am starting my first day working at Kroger as a Courtesy Clerk in Front End. I am 16 in high school, and this is my first job so I am excited. Well could someone tell me like the do's and don'ts and what to expect, and also some bagging tips. I was told to build walls in your bags, but I know that most of the time I'm now gonna have like boxes of cereals to make the walls with. So yeah I know I am gonna suck at bagging, I have no problem with doing price checks and getting carts out the parking lot but cleaning is something I am not gonna look forward to. I have no experience in cleaning big bathrooms lol but yea could someone give me some advice, and what should I do on my first day? Do I go to the manager and tell them its my first day or do I just go to a random check out lane and start bagging.
Agreed with the 'building walls does not work' thing. Although my stupid bit-ch of a Front End Manager would think otherwise. She also insists about putting things into a bag properly so that they do not fall over. She seems to ignore a little thing known as "gravity". I know Kroger ignores basic mathematics, worker rights and things like common sense but gravity is one area that the company shall never reach.
I also double-bag two-liter drinks when I put two into a bag. Same manager would tell me not to do it. I don't trust Kroger bags.
"Strive for Five" is a load of horsecrap. Same manager also insists on re-using the bags that "don't make it." So if I pull back on a bag and it brings three with it, I can't just throw those three into the bag recycle bin in the foyer. It doesn't matter how crappy or ruffled or shoved in to another bag they are, we are to re-use them. By her declaration at least. I also ignore this one. I put them in the recycle bin whenever I can.
We have these wonderful defective bags they refuse to send back. Every other pack of bags you grab one bag will come off attached to the one you are bagging. I try to keep them picked up but they always come by usually the Dairy guy and will bitch at me for having a bag on the ground that its dangerous...I'm obviously going to pick up when I get done bagging this monster pile of groceries.
