Nature's Marketplace Part Time

Our Nature’s Marketplace helps customers lives healthier, better lives by offering a variety of natural and organic foods, beauty products, and household essentials. In this department, you’ll ensure shelves are fully stocked while educating customers on how these products can contribute to their health and wellness. If you’re looking for an opportunity to share your passion for using natural and organic products to live a healthy lifestyle, this could be the position for you!

People (Who We Are)

• Support, encourage, and respect co-workers
• Work with supervisor to set and achieve goals for development
• Comply with Wegmans Policies and Work Rules, as well as, federal and state laws
• Maintain open lines of communication with supervisors and coworkers to ensure efficient department operations

Customer (What We Believe)

• Proactively approach customers, assist them in locating products, provide suggestions and answer any questions about products
• Familiarize self with products in the department as well as inventory in the backroom to assist customers in locating items and product availability
• Seek to expand personal knowledge about products and trends and share with customers

Product (What We Do)

• Order product, unload deliveries, stock shelves, displays and backroom while recognizing how seasons and holidays affect product sales
• Maintain department appearance by rotating product, sustaining product levels throughout the day, properly shrinking outdated product, checking expiration dates, ensuring shelves and displays are well-merchandised
• Properly handle products, use equipment, keep accurate logs and follow sanitation practices in accordance with food and human safety guidelines, and Simplification 5S procedures
  Order products from multiply vendors using ordering machines, vendor fax sheet, and telephone

Work Environment

• Work includes walking, standing for up to 4 hours without a break, frequent heavy lifting, shelving of product, repetitive hand and arm movements, bending, and reaching, along with continuous interaction with customers and co-workers. Work involves exposure to and working in cold and below freezing temperatures. The average weight range of items lifted is 8-32 pounds with a maximum weight lifted greater than 50 pounds occasionally. You may receive assistance with heavy items, if available. May be exposed to various allergens (things that may cause an allergic reaction).
• Work may include use of hand pallet jack, power pallet jack, power walkie-reach, scissors lift or WAV unit. Wegmans certification required for use of power equipment

Employment at Wegmans may be contingent upon your completion and our evaluation of a drug screen and/or criminal background check. All Applicants will be screened; only those closely matching the job posting will be interviewed

• Customer service experience, preferably in a food service, grocery or retail setting

• Passion and knowledge of organic and natural products
• Passion for living a healthy lifestyle