Retail Assistant – Part Time

Company: Farmfoods
Apply for the Retail Assistant – Part Time
Location: Dumfries
Job Description:

Job Overview

We are looking to recruit a new retail assistant for our shop in Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway. We offer a permanent part‑time position working a variety of shifts, with a minimum of 16 hours worked over 4 days from 7 each week, including weekends.

Pay & Benefits

  • Pay: £10.95–£12.81 per hour (dependent on age)
  • Ages 16–20 = £10.95 per hour
  • Ages 21+ = £12.81 per hour
  • 6 weeks holiday each year
  • Great training and development opportunities
  • 15 % staff discount in any of our 300+ shops
  • A smart uniform
  • Free life assurance
  • A staff benefits package – virtual GP, discounted services and products such as cinema tickets, gym memberships, days out and travel

Responsibilities

  • Make all customers feel welcome with a friendly smile and simple hello
  • Help customers find the items they are looking for
  • Provide fast and friendly service at the tills, offer help to pack and leave a good impression with a friendly thank you and goodbye
  • Handle stock with care while working deliveries, quickly placing products into freezers and onto shelves ready for customers to buy
  • Work with the rest of the team to complete daily and weekly routines that keep our shops safe, clean and tidy

Requirements

  • A friendly, positive, hard‑working approach to work
  • Enjoy being busy – jump from putting out deliveries to serving on the till, helping customers on the shop floor, completing cleaning and stock rotation routines
  • Be reliable – an important part of a small team; colleagues and customers will depend on you to do your best on each shift and not let the team down
  • Be flexible with shifts – rota planned three weeks in advance and commitments outside work considered
  • Complete an Employment Verification check if successful

Why Join Us

Many people find this role fits around studies, a family or other commitments. If you stay, there are many opportunities for a career at Farmfoods with training programmes and promotion from within to shop or area manager positions.

About Farmfoods

Farmfoods is a family business with ambition. We pride ourselves on offering customers great value, quality products from clean and tidy shops with the friendliest team in retail. We aim to offer sensational value to customers on a great range of everyday family‑oriented goods and deliver an ‘old fashioned’, genuine and friendly customer experience.

Contract Information

Position: PTRA, Hours: 16, Days: 4

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Posted: June 1st, 2026