LOOKING FOR FULL TIME SUMMER EMPLOYEES!
THIS IS AN ENTRY LEVEL SHOE DOG ROLE.
The world of retail is not just about style, flash, pizazz. What makes a good retailer function is the foundation, the internal processes set up by individuals looking for every competitive advantage to make it to the top. Chiappetta Shoes is looking for an inventory management intern that loves to hustle, stay organized, and grind all day. No retail experience is required but it does help. Daily activities will include e-commerce fulfillment, managing inventory levels, ordering fill-ins and special orders with companies, and data management. Creativity and ingenuity are just as important as hard work and reliability. What we are looking for is a motivated person, ready to make a difference and take a small business to the next level by assisting in building a lasting foundation.
LOOKING FOR FULL TIME SUMMER EMPLOYEES!
Qualifications and Skills
- Ability to learn footwear and inventory quickly.
- A love for data and organization.
- Ability to buy into the Chiappetta Crew, what we do and who we are.
- Some warehouse or inventory management experience.
- Excellent oral and written communication.
- Competent in computer skills including Google Sheets, Word, and Excel.
- Proficient in math and management skills.
- Ability to work within our team.
- Creativity and innovative personality to help build our new system.
- Ability to lift a minimum of 45 pounds.
- Some level of knowledge in Shopify is beneficial.
Responsibilities
- E-Commerce fulfillment including processing orders and shipping preparation.
- Daily inventory including placing fill-in and special orders.
- Seasonal inventory management.
- Seasonal data management.
- Monthly operations review, always looking for better ways of doing things!
- Seasonal website inventory data management including photography.
- Detailed inventory work.
Company Description
Chiappetta Shoes is a fourth-generation, family-owned shoe store, pedorthic practice, and custom orthotic laboratory in Kenosha, Wisconsin. We have served our community for over 100 years, but we are not interested in acting like an old, sleepy shoe store.
We help people move better, feel better, and live better through better footwear, better fit, and real problem-solving. Our customers come to us for foot pain, hard-to-fit feet, work boots, comfort footwear, diabetic concerns, custom orthotics, and honest expert guidance.
We are proud to have been recognized locally and nationally, including being named one of the top comfort shoe stores in the country and voted Kenosha’s Best Shoe Store year after year. But awards are not the mission. The mission is trust, service, expertise, and doing right by people.
What makes Chiappetta different is the combination of old-school customer service and modern ambition. We still believe in measuring both feet, listening carefully, understanding the customer’s problem, and offering a real solution. At the same time, we are growing through ecommerce, content creation, AI-assisted marketing, custom orthotic manufacturing, social media, video, email, SEO, paid advertising, and national brand building.
At our core, we are people-people. We believe in confidence, pride, compassion, and empathy. Confidence comes from knowing what you are talking about. Pride comes from offering great solutions. Compassion means caring enough to listen. Empathy means asking whether the solution would be good enough for your own mother.
We are looking for difference makers — people with a chip on their shoulder who want to build, create, solve, learn, and grow. We want people who respect the history of a 100-year-old business but are excited to help push it into the future.
We are Shoe Dogs. That means we care about the product, the customer, the craft, and the details. We pay attention to what is happening in footwear, retail, marketing, technology, and culture. We are creative because we are knowledgeable. We are competitive because we care.
Technology is a major part of where we are going, but it will never replace the human side of what we do. AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude should make us faster and sharper, but the heart of the business will always be people helping people.
Being part of the Chiappetta Crew is both a responsibility and a privilege. We run with a tight crew. We care about each other, our customers, our community, and winning the right way.
If you want to coast, hide, or wait to be told what to do, this probably is not the place.
If you want to build something, make an impact, honor a proud tradition, and help take a legendary local business to the next level — welcome to Chiappetta Shoes.
#AintNoBettaThanChiappetta