Shoppers Drug Mart Retail Job - Kingston ON Canada — Columbus
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This is a fully in-store, location-dependent retail position at a Shoppers Drug Mart in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It requires physical presence on the sales floor, stocking shelves, and face-to-face customer service — there is absolutely no remote or digital nomad component to this role.
For digital nomads or location-independent workers, this job is not suitable. It requires fixed shifts (including evenings and weekends), the ability to lift 50 lbs, and daily in-person attendance. You cannot perform these duties from a café in Lisbon or a co-working space in Bangkok.
What to look for instead:
- Remote retail operations roles (e.g., e-commerce coordinator, online merchandising)
- Remote customer service or chat support roles in the health/beauty sector
- Digital content or social media roles for beauty/pharmacy brands
If you are based in or relocating to Kingston, ON and want stable hourly work with a national retailer, this role offers CAD $17.60–$20.85/hr — enough to cover basic living costs in Kingston, which is more affordable than Toronto but still a mid-sized Canadian city.
Join a locally owned and operated Shoppers Drug Mart store to help deliver health, beauty and convenience services in your community, and keep the customer at the centre of everything you do.
Why this role is important? Duties & Responsibilities- Uses PDT and MMS Systems to perform daily tasks
- As directed, manage Exit Strategy and Product Return
- Expert in assigned areas of product inventory, product placement and expiry dates
- Maintains Store Standard pertaining to image and trends in store
- Ensures product displays are consumer focused and "shoppable"
- Achieve daily sales targets
- Clean image to the customers in accordance with uniform policy and dress code
- Takes initiative to acknowledge and assist customers in the aisles
- Knowledge of Cosmetics market
- Demonstrated customer service skills
- Complies with all health and safety regulations
- Complies with all Store Standards
- Complies with loss prevention policies and procedures
- Perform other duties as required
- Planning, judgement and decision making
- Efficiency, organization and neatness
- Copes with changing situations on the sales floor
- Cash responsibilities (if applicable) require accuracy and efficiency in processing the customer order
- Some computer and cash register skills
- Well organized with ability to record keep
- Detail oriented
- Ability to work independently
- Self-motivated
- Ability to work flexible shifts which may include nights and weekends
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds
- Ability to climb a ladder
Each store has an Associate-Owner, so you will work for a local business owner while having the support of a national brand. Benefit from a purchase discount program, flexible and varied schedules, competitive pay and online learning through Academy.
Take ownership of your work and find more ways to care about your patients, co-workers, customers and community.
Associate Owners in the Shoppers Drug Mart network recognize Canada's diversity as an opportunity to better serve their communities, and strive to reflect the nation's evolving diversity in the products they sell, the people they hire, and the culture they create in their stores. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants and colleagues with disabilities.
In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing. Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct — it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.
Hiring Range$17.60 - $20.85 per hour
A candidate's experience and knowledge as well as the geographical region in which the position is located may be factored into the pay a candidate receives for this position. This posting is for an existing vacancy. The Company uses artificial intelligence for the purpose of screening, assessing and/or selecting applicants for this position.
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