Price-Mart

Charlottetown, PE

Price-Mart

Charlottetown, PE

merchandising associate

Charlottetown, PE (view on map)

Posted 12 hours ago

Job Description

• Work Term: Permanent
• Work Language: English
• Hours: 30 to 48 hours per week
• Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
• Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year

Work site environment

• Air conditioned
• Odours

Work setting

• Retail business

Tasks

• Accept cash, cheque, credit card or automatic debit payment
• Operate cash register
• Supervise staff (apprentices, stages hands, design team, etc.)
• Operate computerized inventory record keeping and re-ordering systems
• Provide advice about merchandise
• Advertise and/or promote products, sales or services
• Provide customer service
• Train staff
• Assist in display of merchandise
• Greet customers and discuss type, quality and quantity of merchandise or services sought for purchase, rental or lease
• Maintain sales records for inventory control
• Prepare merchandise for purchase, rental or lease
• Stock shelves and display areas
• Price items using stamp or stickers according to price list
• Prepare reports on sales volumes, merchandising and personnel matters
• Obtain articles for customers from shelf or stockroom
• Keep stock clean and in order
• Direct customers to location of articles sought
• Bag, box or parcel purchases for customers, for shipment or delivery
• Suggestive selling
• Clerical duties (i.e. faxing, filing, photocopying)
• Order picking
• Perform general cleaning duties (i.e. sweeping, mopping floors)
• Process money, cheques and credit/debit card payments
• Scan items
• Tabulate total payment for goods or services required
• Receive payment for goods or services
• Calculate daily/shift payments received and reconcile with total sales
• Stock shelves and clean counter area
• Greet customers
• Wrap or place merchandise in bags
• Assemble, install and set-up merchandise/products
• Accept reservations or take-out orders
• Wax and polish floors
• Unpack products received by store and count, weigh or sort items
• Calculate foreign currency exchange
• Participate in promotional activities
• Verify the age of customers when selling lottery tickets, alcohol or tobacco products
• Monitor all entrances and exits, request proof of payment when necessary
• Carry customer's purchases to parking lot and pack orders in customers' vehicles

Supervision

• 5-10 people

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) Certificate
• First Aid Certificate

Type of service and repair

• Electronic cash register

Computer and technology knowledge

• Price scanner
• MS Excel
• MS Word
• Interac machine
• Computerized inventory record keeping and re-ordering system

Equipment, eystems and controls experience

• Security system

Security and safety

• Bondable

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Fast-paced environment
• Work under pressure
• Attention to detail
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding
• Standing for extended periods
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking

Personal suitability

• Dependability
• Flexibility
• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player
• Excellent oral communication
• Accurate
• Maturity

Screening questions

• Are you available for shift or on-call work?
• Are you currently a student?
• Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
• Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
• Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?