Skills & competences

Description

Shelf fillers stock shelves and display areas and keep stock clean and in order in supermarkets and other retail and wholesale shops.
Tasks include -
(a) placing goods neatly in bins and on racks, and stacking bulky goods on floors;
(b) filling shelves with goods and ensuring that goods with the earliest use-by dates are at the front of shelves;
(c) removing goods with past due use-by dates;
(d) maintaining shelf order by removing stock belonging in a different location;
(e) noting what has been sold and collecting goods needed from the stockroom;
(f) obtaining articles for customers from shelf or stockroom;
(g) directing customers to location of articles sought;
(h) receiving, opening, unpacking and inspecting for damage merchandise from manufacturer or distributor.
Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Night filler
- Stock filler
- Stock handler