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Core Store Associate (General Apply)

4/21/2026

The Core Store Associate acts as a guest services ambassador while managing store operations such as stocking shelves, maintaining displays, and handling produce. They are responsible for ensuring store cleanliness, managing register operations, and providing an exceptional experience for all guests.

Salary

15.5 - 16.29 USD

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

201-500 employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
OUR MISSION: We’re on a mission to fuel a passion for great food, health and well-being and be the place where people gather to shop, eat, and work. OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES An outstanding place to work Super healthful, innovative, delicious food - We’ve never wavered from our standards! Amazing hospitality The most inviting place to shop and eat Deep devotion to local farmers and producers An educated staff An active, vibrant role in our community Healthy Living is a locally owned, independent chain of supermarkets serving communities in Vermont and New York. We look forward to serving you!
About the Role

Description

WE’RE LOOKING FOR THE COOLEST HUMANS IN TOWN!

Come join a team that:

  • Focuses on teamwork
  • Supports a collaborative environment
  • Puts curiosity and great ideas first
  • Is dedicated to providing an exceptional guest experience
  • Builds community relationships
  • Loves food and cooking
  • Has fun while working hard!

The Core Store Associate is our all-around-the-store position. You’ll be involved in many aspects of what makes our stores amazing! Core Store Associates may be trained in multiple areas of the store including Grocery, Produce, and Front-End. The Core Store Team is all over the store, making it awesome and taking the very best care of our guests.


Requirements


To perform the job successfully, the Core Store Associate should demonstrate the following:

  • Approachability! Help to create an environment where everyone feels welcomed and appreciated
  • Scheduling flexibility to meet the needs of the department; this may include early mornings, evenings, weekends, and some holidays
  • Interest and passion for the product (loves food and wants to learn more about it!)
  • Positive attitude
  • Patience
  • High-energy and an ability to balance speed and accuracy
  • Self-sufficiency and an ability to remain calm under a stressful situation
  • Strong ability to communicate with various types of people in various ways (written, verbal, demonstration)
  • Organizational skills and ability to multi-task
  • Reliability; regular and punctual attendance

Essential Duties:

  • Acts as a 'Guest services ambassador' and ensures that all guests are approached, and assisted in a warm, friendly and welcoming way, and that all of their needs are met
  • Ensures products are properly stocked: dairy, frozen, packaged goods, bulk, and/or produce, and that all product is neatly and accurately placed on shelves and in displays, allowing for proper facings according to shelf tags and signage or merchandising directives
  • Maintains all special, seasonal, and cross merchandised displays as necessary and in accordance with the monthly merchandising directive.
  • Stays passionate, educated and informed regarding new products and industry trends here
  • Receiving and backroom organization
  • Product maintenance; ensures all product has proper representation (signage) on the shelf
  • Store cleanliness and organization (sales floor, backroom, departments)
  • Produce handling and preparation (stocking, culling, cutting, packaging)
  • Cash handling and register operations
  • General operations support as assigned
  • Communication with supervisors and team


Shifts Needed: Part-time or Full-time

Pay: The starting pay for this position has a minimum $15.50 - $16.29/hr, previous experience will be taken into consideration

Location: 129 Market St. Williston, VT


Benefits We Are Proud Of:

  • Generous store discount: 20% off grocery items, 50% off barista drinks, 30% off wellness, 20% off wine, and 10% off beer
  • Full-time staff accrue 2 weeks PTO, gain an additional year (3 weeks total) on your 1st work anniversary
  • Part-time staff accrue up to 40 hours of sick time a year
  • Health Insurance! 
  • For single health benefits employee pays 25%, company pays 75%. For employee plus one or family the split is 50/50
  • Full-time staff - 401(k): 100% vested from day one! Employer match: 100% match of the first 3% of the staff member’s contribution. 50% match on the staff member’s contribution above 3% and up to 5%.
  • Well Being Program & Premium Membership access to Insight Timer app
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Celtics Tickets Lottery
  • Health Spending Account
  • Vision Insurance & Dental Insurance
  • Short Term Disability Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, & Life Insurance
  • Flex Spending Accounts
  • Health Spending Accounts
  • Income advance program with North Country Federal Credit Union - AKA a loan program, another way we help you get money!
  • Plus many more!

Healthy Living's Essential Behaviors:

  • Make Someone’s Day

You’re here because you’re a true 51%er and we want you to bring genuine enthusiasm to work daily. You get that warm, fuzzy, tingly-from-head-to-toe feeling when helping others – staff and guests! You see getting to “yes” as a super-fun challenge! You readily and freely interact with every guest. There’s nothing you like more than seeing guests leave happier than when they arrived. When your teammates are having a tough day, you use positive energy to bring them up. When you smile, everyone smiles.

  • Move fast and be thorough

You work with a purposeful sense of urgency. You will be trained to achieve excellence in your job to complete tasks quickly, efficiently, and with great skill, and at the same time remembering to look up and connect with each guest. You LOVE getting the job done and doing it well.

  • Create a team people want to stay on

Your genuine, positive energy contributes to an upbeat, effective team where you and your co-workers thrive and express a desire to stay and to grow together. You treat your teammates with respect and kindness every single day. You offer empathy and an open ear. You bring special skills to the team that are respected by your teammates and in turn you see the value in others’ skills and talents.

  • Show Up

You show up to work. You are fully present for your teammates, our guests, and our trade partners. You’re a reliable, invested member of the team. You bring authentic, positive energy to work every day. Deep down you care.

  • “What can I do?”

The words, “What can I do?” and “How can I help?” fly out of your mouth because you recognize that the collective goal of the team and the store is bigger than the task at hand. You anticipate the needs of your coworkers and the guests and are proactive in helping others.

  • Come with a solution

You have a keen eye for identifying pain points in our systems, but you always come to the table with a solution to offer. You think outside the box, you’re creative in solving problems, and you adapt to change with grace. You always speak up and let us know what you need!

  • Own it

You hold yourself accountable and you’re accountable to your teammates. When there is an issue, ask yourself, “What can I do to help fix it?” When there is success, you and your team celebrate! The details matter, and you are attentive to all of them.

  • Seek knowledge

At Heathy Living we love learning and are naturally curious. We love feedback; it is an opportunity to improve ourselves. You reflect deeply on feedback by frequently looking inward and evaluating your own performance at HL. You are personally fulfilled by helping others grow and love taking on new challenges and new opportunities to learn.



If all of this sounds like you, please apply for a position today and begin your career with our mission, vision, and values driven company.

Healthy Living Market and Café is an equal opportunity employer and we’re proud to hire a diverse, inclusive Staff!


Key Skills
TeamworkGuest serviceCommunicationMulti-taskingOrganizational skillsCash handlingRegister operationsStockingProduce handlingProblem solvingAdaptabilityTime managementAttention to detailInterpersonal skillsReliability
Categories
RetailFood & BeverageCustomer Service & Support
Benefits
Generous store discountPaid time offSick timeHealth insurance401(k)Well being programEmployee assistance programCeltics tickets lotteryHealth spending accountVision insuranceDental insuranceShort term disability insuranceCritical illness insuranceLife insuranceFlex spending accountsIncome advance program
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