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La Grange, Illinois | Retail
Hortons Home Lighting & Ace Hardware is independently owned and part of a worldwide community of over 5,000 Ace retail stores committed to winning customers through legendary customer service. Here at Hortons of LaGrange our cashiers exemplify the foundation of our service to each customer as they enter and leave the store.
What You’ll Do:
As a Hortons Cashier & Front-End Services Representative, you are more than just an 'item scanner'. You play a major role in how our Hortons’ guests feel when they leave the store or end a phone call. You are the first and last team member that the guest interacts with. That's why it's so important to smile, greet, and thank each and every guest.
This job involves tasks such as greeting Hortons’ guests, answering phone calls and directing calls to the appropriate departments, answering questions about products, taking payment and processing refunds, generating estimates, data entry, and implementing store policies. You will play a key role in providing legendary customer service to our Hortons’ guests and building guest loyalty. You will be responsible for operating our cash registers with accuracy and efficiency while ensuring the checkout experience is fast and friendly. This includes, but is not limited to, suggesting appropriate additional products, handling merchandise returns and exchanges quickly and efficiently, calling customers when their special orders are in and counting down their cash drawer at the end of each shift.
Candidates well suited for our Cashier & Front-End Services Representative role are customer focused, have a friendly and approachable personality, enjoy working as part of a team, and can remain motivated when completing repetitive tasks.
Who You Are:
• Desire to provide customer service excellence
• Willing to work flexible hours including evening hours and weekends
• Outgoing and excited to smile, greet, and thank customers with a positive attitude
• Comfortable standing for long periods of time while checking out guests quickly and accurately
• Organized and professional
• Quick learner and comfortable answering guest questions to help them with their needs
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Detail-oriented
• Knowledge of basic computer skills
• Related experience is preferred but not required
Consider joining the Hortons team where our friendly atmosphere, competitive wages, merchandise discounts, flexible schedules and a positive management team are just a few of the advantages we offer. This is the perfect job for someone returning to the job force, or perhaps for someone attending local college.
Experience:
• Cashier experience preferred. Customer service experience preferred
• Physical demands
• Standing, walking, and lifting (up to 25lbs)
Company Introduction
We are your local hardware store and we are a part of your community. Ace Hardware has over 5,000 stores around the world with the majority of those stores independently owned and operated by local entrepreneurs. These hard working men and women are part of the fabric of your community. They are small business owners who are local and loyal...just like it ought to be. While others have become large and impersonal, at Ace, we've remained small and very personal. That's why we say a visit to Ace, is like a visit to your neighbor.
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Notice to Applicant about this Employer: You are applying for a job with an independently owned and operated cooperative member of Ace Hardware Corporation, who owns and operates this Ace Hardware retail store location. Ace Hardware Corporation is not the employer for this position. The independent store owner alone is responsible for and independently makes all decisions concerning employment related matters, including hiring, firing, discipline, supervision, staffing and scheduling. Ace Hardware Corporation will not receive a copy of any applications submitted for this position, does not control interviews and/or hiring decisions, and has no control over or responsibility for the employment policies and practices of the independent store owner. If hired, the independent store owner will be your only employer. The Ace Hardware trademarks, logos and designs are owned by Ace Hardware Corporation and used by independent store owners under a license from Ace Hardware Corporation.