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La Grange Park, Illinois | Retail
Job Summary
La Grange Park Ace Hardware is looking for a friendly, energetic, and dependable Garden Center Sales Associate to join our team. This role focuses on providing exceptional customer service in our garden center, assisting customers with plants and outdoor products, and helping maintain a clean, organized, and welcoming outdoor shopping area.
Key Responsibilities
- Greet and assist customers in the garden center with product selection and basic plant care questions
- Water, care for, and maintain the health and appearance of plants
- Stock, price, and rotate garden center merchandise including plants, soil, fertilizers, and outdoor décor
- Load plants, mulch, soil, and other garden items into customer vehicles
- Maintain cleanliness and organization of the garden center and outdoor displays
- Monitor inventory and report damaged or unsellable plants
- Assist inside the store as needed, including cashiering or stocking
- Follow all safety and lifting procedures
Qualifications
- Interest in gardening, plants, or outdoor living (experience preferred but not required)
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
- Able to work outdoors in different weather elements (heat, rain, wind, etc.)
- Excellent customer service and communication skills
- Dependable, punctual, and team‑oriented
- Willingness to learn about garden products and plant care
Schedule Requirements
- Flexible availability required
- Must be able to work weekends
- Seasonal spring and summer hours, with possible extension
What We Offer
- Friendly and supportive team environment
- Employee discount
- Training on plants and garden products
Location: La Grange Park Ace Hardware
If you’re a motivated and dynamic individual ready to make a difference in your community, apply now to join the Ace Hardware family as a Garden Center Retail Sales Representative!
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.
Life at Ace
Find out how we’ve created a one-of-a-kind, passionate and helpful workplace that puts our people first.
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.