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Store Person

OFO Code: 833402

Last checked 7 October 2026

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1. Occupation identity

OFO code
833402
Occupation
Store Person
Classification
OFO 2021
Major group
ELEMENTARY OCCUPATIONS
Unit group
8334 · Shelf Fillers

Official description
Shelf fillers stock shelves and display areas and keep stock clean and in order in supermarkets and other retail and wholesale shops.

More official OFO detail

Specialisations: Order Picker / Assembler, Supply Operator (Army), Manufacturing Storeperson, Chiller Hand, Warehouse Assistant, Stores Assistant

  • Noting what has been sold and collecting goods needed from the stockroom
  • Directing customers to location of articles sought
  • Receiving, opening, unpacking, and inspecting for damage merchandise from manufacturer or distributor
  • Removing goods with past due use-by dates
  • Filling shelves with goods ensuring goods with the earliest use-by dates are at the front of shelves
  • Obtaining articles for customers from shelf or stockroom
  • Maintaining shelf order by removing stock belonging in a different location
  • Placing goods neatly in bins and on racks, and stacking bulky goods on floors

2. Demand status

Demand evidence unavailable

No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.

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3. Salary evidence

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5. Qualification

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7. Industry, sector and provincial context

National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.

No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.

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10. Sources for this page

  • DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
    Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact.
  • DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
    The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment.
  • Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
    Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone.
  • QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
    Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review.
  • Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
    Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim.
  • SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
    PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.
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