I went into the AtHome store at 7667
shelby Street in Indianapolis today, in search of a floor lamp.
I have done business with the AtHome store in Noblesville for years. I bought most of my home furnishings, paintings, rugs, decor there and Ioved that store. I have recently moved to Indianapolis and I needed to get new furniture for my new apartment on the south side of Indy. I went into the store at 7667 Shelby Street.
When I went into the store, I grabbed a shopping cart with the intention of buying a floor lamp. Before shopping, I went into the men's room. I used the urinal in there and left. I began shopping and a very agitated man approached me and said, "You need to go back into that men's room and clean up your mess." Not knowing what he was talking about, I said, "What mess?" Well, the employee accused me of deliberately urinating on the floor of the men's room. Now, to offer some context, I am a 64-year-old man with macular degeneration. I have never been asked by a store employee to return to the restroom to "clean up a mess." So, I told the AtHome employee I would not return to the men's room to clean it up. Whatever happened in there was purely accidental and definitely not intentional.
I simply wanted to continue my shopping, but the AtHome employee told me if I didn't clean his restroom, he was going to "throw me out" of HIS store. When I refused, he said, "You're not going to disrespect my store." He said, "You will leave immediately or I will call the polic on you."
So, I left the store. I was flabbergasted about this whole experience. When I returned home, I was upset enough to call the AtHome store to complain to the manager. When I called the manager, he said he was aware of what happened and he said he wouldn't terminate the employee. I replied, I didn't want the employee terminated, I just wanted an apology. The manager said his employee told him that I'd deliberately urinated on the restroom floor. This was a complete lie and I told the manager it was a lie. The manager said, "What do you want me to do about it?" I said, nothing in my entire life has ever happened to me in a place of business. I asked the manager who he reported to. He said he reported to no one--he was the manager. I asked if he reported to a corporate office. He said yes, he did. He said corporate was in Plano, Texas. I asked the manager for the phone number of the corporate office. The manager refused. In fact, he refused to give me the number after I asked him twice. By now, I am flustered. I had maintained a civil, if terse, conversation and I felt I was being completely stone-walled. Finally, I asked the manager his name. In fact, I asked the manager to give his name three times and all three times he refused to provide me his name. Then, the manager hung up on me in mid-sentence. Now, I didn't curse at the manager or the employee. I only raised my voice when I was on the telephone with the manager and he kept refusing to give me his name.
I have nevr, ever been evicted from a store in my life. I have never, ever been in any store which threatened to call the police on me for making a mess in a restroom. This whole adventure was completely ridiculous. I did contact the corporate office by email (the phone listed to contact AtHome corporate went unanswered, and a voicemail directed me to contact AtHome online. So I completed my complaint online.
AtHome will no longer receive my business. And I will make it my business to air this complaint on every review or rating apparatus I can find with regard to AtHome. read more