Grocery associate vs sales/stock associate

The differences between grocery associates and sales/stock associates 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 $30,494 average annual salary of a sales/stock associate.

The top three skills for a grocery associate include frozen food, general merchandise and truck deliveries. The most important skills for a sales/stock associate are kids, store locations, and store shelves.

Grocery associate vs sales/stock associate overview

	Grocery Associate	Sales/Stock Associate
Yearly salary	$35,040	$30,494
Hourly rate	$16.85	$14.66
Growth rate	1%	1%
Number of jobs	202,439	401,752
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	High School Diploma, 36%	High School Diploma, 46%
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 a sales/stock associate do?

Sales/stock associates or stock clerks receive shipments or goods to a store and prepare them for marketing. Their job involves checking the accuracy of the shipment, stocking items in the warehouse, and maintaining the store inventory. They are the ones who locate the misplaced stocks or relocate them anywhere. Among their minor duties are shelve arrangement, facility cleanup, and correspondence handling. Also, they help assist the unloading of the shipments to factor, warehouse, or store.

Grocery associate vs sales/stock associate salary

Grocery associates and sales/stock associates have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Grocery Associate	Sales/Stock Associate
Average salary	$35,040	$30,494
Salary range	Between $26,000 And $46,000	Between $24,000 And $38,000
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Differences between grocery associate and sales/stock associate education

There are a few differences between a grocery associate and a sales/stock associate in terms of educational background:

	Grocery Associate	Sales/Stock Associate
Most common degree	High School Diploma, 36%	High School Diploma, 46%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	-	-

Grocery associate vs sales/stock associate demographics

Here are the differences between grocery associates' and sales/stock associates' demographics:

	Grocery Associate	Sales/Stock Associate
Average age	38	38
Gender ratio	Male, 79.4% Female, 20.6%	Male, 65.8% Female, 34.2%
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, 10.3% Unknown, 5.6% Hispanic or Latino, 22.8% Asian, 7.0% White, 53.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.0%
LGBT Percentage	6%	6%

Differences between grocery associate and sales/stock associate 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 )

Sales/stock associate example responsibilities.

Supervise women's department, manage jewelry department, assist customers on finalizing purchases
Stock shelves with books using RF technology.
Scan inventory into system using a RF scanner.
Can operate a POS system cash register and count the money to ensure the correct amount.
Used in-house POS to ring up purchases in-store and by phone as well as to search national inventory database.
Maintain cleanliness according to regulate standards throughout the facilities, both inside and outside per organizations regulations.

Grocery associate vs sales/stock associate skills

Common grocery associate skills

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

Common sales/stock associate skills

Kids, 40%
Store Locations, 20%
Store Shelves, 7%
Stock Room, 6%
Stock Shelves, 3%
Product Knowledge, 3%

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Updated January 8, 2025

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