grocery associate

clerk

coordinator

cashier

utility clerk

Superior-Grocers

Safety Job Responsibilities —
•	Develop OSHA procedures, operating and working methods to meet the occupational health and safety objectives.
•	Ensure compliance of company safety standards according to ISO18001, ISO14001 and state regulations and procedures. 
•	Overall safety training of entire company staff, implemented safe practice trainings, body mechanics (ergonomics).
•	Implementation of safe practices for use of equipment and accident prevention.
•	Maintain and update frequency and severity reporting for study of company accident  trends.
•	Prepare monthly OSHA reports, accidents and investigations reports.
•	Hazard Identification and risk assessment to business practices and development.
•	Conduct safety inspections and audits and recommend additional measures for continual improvement and follow-up of recommendations.
•	Plan and co-ordinate the safety induction and OSHA training for the employees to enhance the occupational health and safety standards.
•	Prepare inspection and safety audits schedules of safety equipment; have to ensure the equipment’s are in ready to use conditions.
•	Plan the provision of adequate safety and accidents prevention coverage.
•	Ensure implementation of emergency procedures, first aid facilities and safety signs.
•	Planning fire drills, evacuation drills and ensures drills are conducted including de briefings.
•	Inspection of store machinery, Band Saws, grinders, Slicers, Mixers, Ovens, Proofers, Fryers, 
•	Implementation and operational standards for all HAZMAT, EPA, CUPA programs companywide.

Loss Prevention Job Responsibilities —
•	Shrink investigations with identification of high shrink areas. 
•	Established programs with store management to reduce shrink.
•	Corporate Investigator; assisting store management in employee interviews and interrogations to identify internal theft.
•	Senior investigator and interrogator for internal and external activity (Wicklander-Zulawski Certified)

Typical Day:
Customer service throughout my shift.
Supervise and delegate the front desk, Cashiers and Utility clerks.
Communicate with management and other employees.
Do typical office work, such as: create files, emails, incoming/outgoing  phone calls, complete assigned tasks, process payroll, benefits & HR paperwork and etc...   

What I have learned: 
How to multi-task and how to work with all types of people.

Management: 
Being a part of the management team has helped me realize that I could take on more than what I thought I was capable of doing. As far as other managers, well it varies. Some are really good at recognizing those who actually put great efforts in their work from those who just come to get a paycheck. Other managers need to work on not having so much favoritism. 

My co-workers:
For the most part most of my co-workers are good people. At my current location I get along with everyone and vice versa. 

Hardest part of my job: 
Having to deal with customers who are having a bad day and seem to think that its okay for them to scream, insult and offend us (employees) just because they know that we are trained to serve with the mentality of "the customer is always right" even though they are clearly Not always right. Over the years, this has taught me to do what some call "grow thick skin" and not take those insults to heart and just keep on smiling and wishing them a good day, without allowing them to ruin the rest of my day.

Most enjoyable part of my job:
Getting to work with people of all ages, races, cultures, genders and personalities (both customers and employees). As timid as I am now, I was even more timid when I first started working.
But working with so many diverse people has helped me break out of my shell a little bit and has allowed me to not be so shy and has helped me develop better people skills.

Typical Busy Day as a Cashier:

Punch in, get a till, get to a register and charge the customers. Try to get all the customers out of the store in a timely manner, while providing great customer and offering our sale products if the customer haven't purchased them already.

Typical Slow Day as a Cashier:

Punch in, get a till, get to a register and if there aren't a lot of customers i'll find other work on the sales floor such as, grocery clerk, porter, jr clerk, scan, gm, bakery, office, and front end.

Typical Busy Day as a Head Cashier:

Punch in, get a till, get to a register, if it is really busy i myself get on the register. On the other hand if it is not, I will manage the front end by managing all the cashiers breaks and lunches and answer all cashiers calls whether they need a loan, a pick up, a customer question, or help with anything. If the customer wants liquor or cigarets I get them, or if the customer has a complaint or compliments I also handle those.

I think the hardest part of my job is when I'm head cashier and we get busy to where I cant call any cashier trained employees to help out with the lines that can be difficult especially when I'm trying to answer calls at the same time as being on the register myself.

I enjoy the fact that when it's busy time does fly by without me noticing. Also I have decent co-workers and since my co-workers feel that I am nice and willing to work when I am working as Head Cashier they make it easy for me and they are willing to do more than they normal would if there had been another Head Cashier were on shift.

A typical day at work requires constant customer service and requests from store-level and upper-level management, along with a shortage of employees on the cashier stands constantly interrupting your breaks and lunches. I believe it is a great place to build character in the high-paced work environment and learn customer service and vendors. Managment is very biased on who they choose to move up and will constantly promote people mthey get along with, including store directors and district managers. Favoritism plays a significant role here whether you are well-qualified for the job, have more experience, or are disliked. The workplace culture is what you'd expect: entry-level-level positions will constantly call off and have their issues, customers are not too bad, and management will write you up for things that slip by them. You will consistently be working out of your specified job role doing extra tasks with little to no compensation, along with some meetings for which they do not pay for your gas, only whatever time you spent in the meeting. Calling off sick is almost impossible; I worked during COVID-19 and was denied leaving even though I had apparent symptoms. The hardest part of the job is that you will have no work-life balance, flexible schedules, unfair wages, unpaid time, and nepotism throughout the company.  

I am currently a scan coordinator in this company. This job is super easy once you get the hang of it. This job consist of detail oriented tasks and I like this job because it’s efficient and it keeps me productive throughout the day. I’ve learned a lot of responsibility when it comes to this position and I take what I do very seriously. I’ve learned computer skills and communication skills. Management in a nutshell is that underlying issues don’t get resolved. Then they wonder why there’s not that many people working there. A lot of the times management will say “people do not wanna work” although that may be true half of the time but the other half is that people get treated unfairly here and I’ve witnessed it. There’s a lack of communication and undermining of employees. The culture here is consisted of lots of drama and gossip, quite frankly, I stay away from that stuff but word spreads like wildfire in this company. Gossip alone really hurts this company and begins feuds with the employees. The hardest part of the job honestly is just the unnecessary drama that happens at times when people should really just focus on themselves and the job at hand. Th e most enjoyable part of the job is that there is people in this company that have a really good heart, who are hardworking, humble, and really give it there all. But unfortunately, good people get taken advantage of. 

Working here was like the class in school with misbehaving kids and the teacher not doing a thing to control them. There were company rules but no one followed them, this interfered with work. I started off here as a cashier, when there was a vacant position in the scan coordinator department I took the position, I made a huge mistake. The work was hard but I was able to cope with that. What made the job difficult was vendors and employees ripping price tags and rearranging them. The would take them and store them away when they product was out of stock. When they had the product again the would take the tag and place it on the shelf again. Just so happened that the item increased in price, it would snowball into more problems. Customers complaining at the registers, store management thinking we were not doing our job. When corporate would come to conduct an audit, we would get in trouble because of someone else's actions. We would report this to the store management and corporate, it was like talking to a wall. After a year of fighting with employees, vendors, corporate, store management and others I gave up and quit. Like I said, there is no structure, no way of holding people accountable, trying to do your job like this is impossible. 

I was taught and learned many valuable lessons and experiences while working at superior that can be applied to my personal life and also new job or career.  A typical day at work involved me showing up on time and prior to my shift, so that I can be well prepared for the job and task for the day.Also communication was key in being able to cooperate with my management team and co workers, to assure that all priorities and jobs were completed in a timely fashion. The hardest part of the job was being able to time myself and keep myself on track , for example; Being able to process customers as quickly and efficiently as possible to keep them satisfied or stocking and replenishing items in high demand to make sales. The most enjoyable part of the job was being able to see genuinely happy and satisfied customers and also management and co workers when I went above and beyond what my job duties were. Overall great company to work with many opportunities to learn and better yourself.

Employment here is a revolving door. People are constantly quitting. They can't hold people here because they under-staff and treat them unfairly, especially the closing shifts. Because they have no workers, they will often force neighboring departments to cover for sections they don't even know how to work. Whenever a department was fully and correctly staffed for their day, their workers would inevitably have to be "borrowed", now leaving everyone short handed. They will schedule you 6 days a week with 38 - 40 hours right away because they are so short on people. That could be a good thing or bad thing depending on your perspective, but for me, it really disrupted my work/life balance. The hours were never consistent, so one week I could be closing, and the next day after I had been up since 10pm, I would have to come back at 5am. That's another thing, they are always changing the schedule in the middle of the week. So sometimes I'd come to work and find out that I didn't have to, or worse, am late because they changed the time without telling me. Loyal, hard-working employees who actually stuck it out, got cross-trained, and put in effort to help as much as they could were not rewarded with raises or anything. They were simply expected to go beyond their position without any recognition or compensation.

A typical day at work is just normal you do what you have to do.  What I learned is that never put in a lot of effort in a job that even though they will never appreciate the hard work that you do. Management, they have their own little world and worrying about the head bosses coming in they don't worry about their cashiers or any other workers. The work place culture it depends where you are some people are nice some have their attitude. the hardest part of job is keeping the boss happy and trying to keep up what he needs done like " donations" trying to get costumers to donate $1 snd beat every superior store around California . The most enjoyable part about the job is the people you work with, you build up this connection and bond and joy that makes you your second family. Its like you don't wanna leave there never because of the people but at the same time you wanna leave because of bad company you work in.

Would start the day doing walk of all dpts making sure all dpt are in good shape stocked good quality product that if i wouldnt buy it wouldnt be on my sales floor. Ive learned to operate forklift, electric jack, to make and send orders, recieving loads. My managers have always been understanding and a joy to work with. Co-workers are great for the most part we do have a few bad apples that try to work on their terms but they tend not to last. Hardest part of the job is our change day dropping and building displays while still having to maintain the store conditions aswell as customers issues e.g. accidents. I would have to say the most enjoyable part or atleast rewarding part of my job is customer and employee satisfaction i love knowing people can count on me my employees such as needing to trade days if needed or customer with items they need to make the meal for the day.

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Grocery associate 287 salaries reported	$18.57 per hour
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Cashier 143 salaries reported	$18.17 per hour
Utility clerk 140 salaries reported	$17.23 per hour

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