Hardware Store Yard Assistant

Start in retail here: a hardware and building store in Newcastle trains packers who show up and work neat. If you turn up on time and finish what you start, you'll fit in quickly.

You'll be based at a hardware and building store in Newcastle. Living nearby, or on a taxi route to it, really helps.

• Weigh, bag and price fruit and vegetables
• Clean spills fast and put up wet-floor signs
• Visit several stores on a merchandising route and send photos of shelves
• Help customers find products and carry heavy items to cars
• Put up price tickets and promotion shelf strips

• Basic reading and maths for price checks
• Able to stand and lift cases all shift
• Neat appearance and punctual
• Honest, since stock losses are checked closely

• Being 18 or older for liquor store roles
• Some till or cash-handling experience
• Own transport for route merchandising jobs

• Staff discount on groceries
• Paid training in store procedures
• Chance to move into till or department roles
• Travel allowance on merchandising routes

• Hand your CV in at the store in person, early in the week, and ask for the store or receiving manager by name.
• Stores fill weekend and night-fill slots first, so write "available weekends and nights" in your CV summary line.