Produce Team Member

About This Role

As a Produce Team Member, you will support the Produce department by receiving and preparing products, maintaining displays, and selling products while providing excellent customer service and adhering to WFM standards.

Responsibilities

• Ensure fresh and appealing displays by keeping cases and shelves clean and well stocked, front-facing, checking codes, rotating, and removing out-of-date products
• Assist Team Leader in organizing and displaying volume and seasonal items
• Monitor and prevent spoilage and communicate waste to buyers, Team Leaders, and shift supervisor
• Complete spoilage, sampling, temperature, and sweep worksheets as required
• Assist with periodic inventory checks
• Arrive to workstation on time, appropriately groomed, dressed, and ready to work
• Provide excellent customer service, address customer needs in a timely and effective manner, and model suggestive selling techniques
• Maximize sales potential through effective and proper procedures for prepping, storing, rotating, stocking, and merchandising product
• Follow and comply with established procedures, including Weights and Measures, health and sanitation, and safe work practices
• Maintain a clean and sanitary working and shopping environment; maintain equipment in accordance with WFM cleanliness and safety standards

Requirements

• Ability to sell proactively
• Ability to learn basic knowledge of all products carried in department
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong to excellent communication skills and willingness to work as part of a team
• Ability to deliver information in a clear and respectable manner to fellow Team Members, customers, and vendors
• Ability to meet customer service expectations and standards in all interactions
• Ability to follow directions and procedures; effective time management and organization skills
• Passion for natural foods and the mission of Whole Foods Market
• Strong work ethic and ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a sense of urgency
• Understanding of and compliance with WFM quality goals
• Ability to lift 50 pounds
• Ability to stand/walk 6-8 hours per day
• Ability to perform motions: bending, twisting, squatting and reaching

Qualifications

• No prior retail experience required

Benefits