Summer Intern - Operator Support at Grocery Outlet

About Grocery Outlet:

• Our Mission: Touching lives for the better
• Our Vision: Touching lives by being the first choice for bargain-minded consumers in the U.S.
• Our Values & Behaviors: Achievement, Diversity, Entrepreneurship, Family, Fun, Integrity & Service

About Us:

At Grocery Outlet, we love brands. Like, really love them. That’s why we work so hard every day to bring our customers the brands they love at prices that are nothing short of pure bliss. In fact, we’ve been helping customers save big since 1946. That’s when our founder Jim Read opened his very first store, selling military surplus at deep discount prices. The rest, as they say, is history. And today, the third generation of the Read family is leading the way, with 550+ stores across the nation and more than 1.5 million shoppers hitting the aisles each week. That makes Grocery Outlet the nation’s largest extreme value retailer. A feat we’re more than proud of.

How do we do it? With the help of our brilliant buyers who shop the world, travelling thousands of miles each year to find the most thrilling deals on brand name groceries. Whether it’s through packaging changes, surplus inventory or product overruns, our buyers source it all – everything from fresh meat and produce to our natural and organic NOSH items to the WOW deals we can hardly believe ourselves. And, of course, we wouldn’t be anywhere without the hundreds of local families who own and operate their own Grocery Outlet stores, allowing us to deliver superior customer service personalized to each of the local communities we serve. So, come in and see for yourself. It might seem like a dream, but we guarantee the savings couldn’t be more real.

About The Program:

This summer you could have the opportunity to join the exceptional Grocery Outlet Corporate team. Our Emeryville, Ca based program gives students real-world work experience while learning about our amazingly unique business model. In addition to your project you will be exposed to all areas of our business. Along with your day-to-day project work you will get to lunch & learn with our executives and explore what a career at Grocery Outlet is really all about. Just in case you were wondering, we hired almost 50% of our interns from last year!

Each intern will have the opportunity to work on a project that will help us solve an actual problem within our organization. No hypothetical projects here! This is a 10-week paid internship that will run from Tuesday June 16th – Thursday August 20th.

About The Project:

You will work with the Operator Support team to evaluate the impact of new system & business initiatives on store performance, cost efficiency, and overall user experience. This project focuses on understanding how new tools and processes influence sales, margin, and quality of life for operators, while identifying ways to improve adoption and communication across the field.

Responsibilities Include:

• Analyze data to measure the impact of new initiatives on cost, sales, and operational performance.
• Gather feedback from stores and field leaders to identify adoption challenges and improvement opportunities.
• Develop clear, engaging learning materials and reference guides to support field education.
• Present key findings, insights, and final deliverables to leadership at the end of the internship.
• Independent project management.
• Relationship building.
• Learning as much as you can.
• Having fun!

What You Will Learn:

• How to analyze and interpret data to measure the real-world impact of business initiatives.
• The process of translating operational challenges into actionable solutions that improve efficiency and store performance.
• How to build learning tools and communication materials that drive understanding and adoption multiple different audiences.
• The importance of cross-functional collaboration between systems, operations, and field support teams.

About The Pay:

• Base Salary: $21.00 Hourly.

About You:

• New Graduate, Rising Senior or Master’s Student enrolled in an accredited program as of June 2026.
• Able to work from the Emeryville office Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Creative & independent thinker.
• Great at presenting strong, fact-based points of view.
• Detailed & deadline driven.
• Thrive in a fast-pace environment.
• Love to have fun! We don’t take ourselves too seriously.

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