Barnes & Noble 
Goodyear, AZ 
AZ - Goodyear - Palm Valley Pavillions West - 2147
Part-Time
As a Bookseller, you are responsible for selling by providing exceptional customer service through our four core service principles. You make the shopping experience interactive and engaging by enthusiastically sharing your knowledge about our products and services and meeting the needs of the customer. You care about and value people and exemplify our core values.
• Deliver exceptional customer service that ensures sales and high levels of customer satisfaction.
• Execute on the four core service principles: put the book in the customer’s hand, offer to order, offer the Member program, and fast cashiering.
• Greet and establish rapport with customers, proactively engaging them in conversations about our products, services and promotions to determine their needs and recommend the right products.
• Ensure all customer transactions are processed accurately and in a timely manner.
• Share knowledge and enthusiasm about all our products, services, and promotions, providing a personalized experience to multiple customers at the same time.
• Respond to customer’s concerns and questions, and secure the sale.
• Drive customer loyalty through successful selling of Memberships, gift cards, Kid’s Club and other sales initiatives.
• Communicate specific product needs to managers to ensure the store is stocked appropriately with in-demand titles and customer requests.
• Recover the selling floor during each shift by, gathering and restocking items, straightening bookcases, maintaining tables in the Café, maintaining restroom cleanliness, and performing other store housekeeping tasks.
• Support and promote business development sales and in-store events
• Assist in any area of the store as needed.
• Adhere to all inventory and loss prevention standards.
• Help orient new booksellers, ensuring a smooth acclimation to the store and our bookselling culture.
• Passion for selling
• Strong communication skills
• Spend the majority of time on the selling floor, which requires physical activity (i.e., prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, climbing)
• Availability for early mornings, evenings, weekends and holidays to align with store needs
Barnes & Noble is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and is committed to providing employment opportunities to minorities, females, veterans, and disabled individuals, as well as other protected groups.
I would ask about their interests and preferences, and then suggest books that align with their tastes.
As Booksellers, we are involved in the sale of books and associated products, combining a strong customer focus with a sound knowledge of their stock and the wider book sales to help customers locate particular books and offer information and advice about different books available. The Booksellers order and display stock and work with publishing companies and representatives, undertaking bibliographic work using computer or print sources to identify and locate titles, processing customer orders, and book reservations. We deal with mail order, email, and web-based orders – although this applies only in certain businesses, handling payments by cash, credit card, and using book tokens – in many shops, this will necessitate the use of electronic point of sale (EPOS) technology.
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