This is what I wrote in my original review. I have an edit at the bottom.
Customer service from this store makes me glad that I am no longer an AT&T user. I have a laundry list of complaints with the staff at this store. I remember a couple of years ago, I was getting a new phone. This was around the time when transferring data from an old phone to a new one was available. That was a surprise to learn, but I was glad to do it, as it meant not having to save phone numbers, pictures, music, videos, etc., and it would transfer over any social media login. They told me that it would take a day to transfer my data, register the new phone to the account, and whatever other work they had to do. That wasn't a problem, so I left. The next day, I came back with the expectation of picking up my new phone. Three of the employees who were there the day before saw me and started laughing. When I asked what was so funny, they said that they left my old and new phones laid out in the store for anyone to take, and someone came in, grabbed my new phone, and ran off with it. They said that they didn't realize the phone was taken until a couple hours after the fact when they saw my old phone and not the new one. They said that by the time they realized the phone was gone, it was close to closing time, so they decided to wait until the next day. I asked why nobody called the other person on the account, they told us that "[they] didn't want to bother us." That meant that because they just left my phones out and about, I had to come back in two days because they had to unregister the stolen phone from the account and then transfer the data from the old phone to the replacement. Finally, my family knows one of the workers there from our personal lives. We didn't know that he was transferred to the retail side of AT&T. My sister had her own AT&T account and was paying way more as a single person than under my family's account. My mom went into to close my sister's account and integrate her phone number under our family plan. The employee that we knew did that, but what we didn't know until the next phone bill came in was he added in a brand new phone number to the account to make a sale. That was an incredibly shady, if not illegal thing to do. We went back and asked him to undo it, and he shrugged his shoulders and basically asked, "Why do you want to cancel this phone #," knowing full well that we never asked him to do that. Ever since, he had become incredibly rude and hostile to us and offered horrible customer service. I can't recommend this place, and AT&T would do well to retrain their employees on customer service.
Edit: I just remembered as well that a couple years ago, sometime before Covid, so maybe 2018 or 2019, I was going to Mexico for a week. I stopped by to ask about AT&T's data plans or for SIM cards to use in Mexico. I don't remember which was the case, but the employees told me that AT&T owns or has a partnership with both a Mexican and Canadian mobile company, so adding data plans for both were free of charge. Since I was an authorized person on the account, I asked them to add the perk. Now, for whatever reason, I had a gut feeling tell me to double check with AT&T and make sure my phone would be covered in Mexico. The employee that I spoke to on my follow up visit looked at the account and said that they didn't see anything added, so it made me glad that I came back. The first employee would've had me on the hook for international roaming charges without a care in the world. I genuinely cannot recommend this staff any less. read more