Grocery associate vs overnight stocker

The differences between grocery associates and overnight stockers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. Additionally, a grocery associate has an average salary of $35,040, which is higher than the $29,983 average annual salary of an overnight stocker.

The top three skills for a grocery associate include frozen food, general merchandise and truck deliveries. The most important skills for an overnight stocker are sales floor, basic math, and customer service.

Grocery associate vs overnight stocker overview

	Grocery Associate	Overnight Stocker
Yearly salary	$35,040	$29,983
Hourly rate	$16.85	$14.41
Growth rate	1%	1%
Number of jobs	202,439	196,707
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	High School Diploma, 36%	High School Diploma, 58%
Average age	38	38
Years of experience	-	-

What does a grocery associate do?

Grocery Associates are responsible for assisting with maintaining operations and providing customer service of a grocery store. Their duties include greeting customers, providing product suggestions, conduct product stocking and rotation, assisting with vendor merchandising, and unloading products from trucks. They are also responsible for operating equipment in departments, reporting illegal activities to management, and bagging groceries. Grocery Associates ensure the displays and aisles are clean while assisting customers with product finding and giving directions.

What does an overnight stocker do?

An overnight stocker is responsible for monitoring inventories, stocking items, and organizing products on shelves. Overnight stockers' duties also include checking the manufacturing and expiration dates of the products, labeling and validating prices, escalating defective items to the management, and categorizing products for special offers and promotions. An overnight stocker must be detail-oriented and has excellent multi-tasking skills to complete and update the inventory as needed. Overnight stockers should also be strict on following the sanitation procedures to keep the items neat and free of any possible damage.

Grocery associate vs overnight stocker salary

Grocery associates and overnight stockers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Grocery Associate	Overnight Stocker
Average salary	$35,040	$29,983
Salary range	Between $26,000 And $46,000	Between $24,000 And $37,000
Highest paying City	-	Hillsboro, OR
Highest paying state	-	California
Best paying company	-	Target
Best paying industry	-	Retail

Differences between grocery associate and overnight stocker education

There are a few differences between a grocery associate and an overnight stocker in terms of educational background:

	Grocery Associate	Overnight Stocker
Most common degree	High School Diploma, 36%	High School Diploma, 58%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	-	-

Grocery associate vs overnight stocker demographics

Here are the differences between grocery associates' and overnight stockers' demographics:

	Grocery Associate	Overnight Stocker
Average age	38	38
Gender ratio	Male, 79.4% Female, 20.6%	Male, 68.2% Female, 31.8%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 10.1% Unknown, 5.5% Hispanic or Latino, 16.3% Asian, 6.6% White, 60.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.9%	Black or African American, 10.9% Unknown, 5.4% Hispanic or Latino, 19.2% Asian, 6.4% White, 57.1% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.9%
LGBT Percentage	6%	6%

Differences between grocery associate and overnight stocker duties and responsibilities

Grocery associate example responsibilities.

Receive payment via cash, checks, credit cards, debit cards and WIC.
Generate ideas: better organization in back room, labeling u-boats with dates, sales, etc.
Unload and secure receive products in the appropriate refrigerate storage areas using power, hand jack, carts or u-boats.
Maintain department cleanliness, and provide premier customer service.
Employ at Meijer's as a (GMC).
Stock and rotate product (FIFO )

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Overnight stocker example responsibilities.

Package groceries and assist customers in transporting their merchandise from the store to their vehicle providing excellent customer service skills.
Work at sams club-transferd to walmart (same company )
Unload pallets, distribute goods to employees for stocking and zone all floors, making sure store are presentable every morning.
Organize and prepare the sales floor for opening staff and customers by exceeding expectations pertaining to store cleanliness and visual merchandising.
Used RF scanner and paper records, restocks order pick lines manually and flow lines to prepare warehouse for order selectors.
clean bathrooms, vacuum, wash windows and doors, pick up trash outside, help customers find appropriate areas, restock

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Grocery associate vs overnight stocker skills

Common grocery associate skills

Frozen Food, 38%
General Merchandise, 14%
Truck Deliveries, 14%
Front End, 6%
Work Ethic, 4%
Grocery Store, 4%

Common overnight stocker skills

Sales Floor, 24%
Basic Math, 19%
Customer Service, 13%
Pallets, 11%
Store Merchandise, 8%
Electric Pallet Jack, 7%

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Updated January 8, 2025

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