Hardware Store Yard Assistant

Start in retail here: a wholesale cash-and-carry in Secunda trains packers who show up and work neat. People who do well here are steady, honest and not scared to ask when something is unclear.

This post is Secunda-based, with most of your time spent at a wholesale cash-and-carry. Most weeks are 45 hours, in line with the BCEA.

• Unpack deliveries in the receiving area and sort by aisle
• Visit several stores on a merchandising route and send photos of shelves
• Pack shelves from the back, rotating older stock to the front (first in, first out)
• Weigh, bag and price fruit and vegetables
• Check sell-by dates and pull expired stock for the manager

• Basic reading and maths for price checks
• Able to stand and lift cases all shift
• Available for weekends, month-end and public holidays
• Honest, since stock losses are checked closely
• Grade 10 or matric

• Being 18 or older for liquor store roles
• Some till or cash-handling experience

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

• 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.