The customer service was absolutely atrocious and the Manager was a jerk! I was very disappointed by the treatment I received. I went to purchase a battery for my car on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011 The Manager Jaime told me he could not install a new battery to my car because he had to get inside to help customers. What in the heck do you think I am. There were 6 other men in this store to tend to customers . I think this guy is prejudiced against women or maybe it's just against black women.
He didn't help with the battery. He told me that I had to take out the battery MYSELF! I'm a woman. Most women don't know how to do that. I don't know how to do that. I don't even have the tools to do that. The battery is also heavy. Yes, some women know how to do this. I'm not one of them. On top of it I have severe injuries to my hands and wrists. It's just not possible for me to be slinging around this heavy battery.
Also, to remove the battery for me is a free courtesy of AutoZone! They are supposed to help you to remove the battery, put in the battery or whatever else you need like replacing your windshield wipers if you purchase new ones there. There are to help you with anything that is not a repair, like fixing a carburetor or something like that. As a matter of fact there was an Asian man there that needed help to install his windshield wipers and no one helped him either. He had to figure it out on his own and he had been waiting for help before I came! This is ridiculous considering that there were other employees there.
So he tells me and my daughter that was also with me that he wasn't removing the battery. To do it myself and THEN he would put in the new battery. He wasn't going to offer the AutoZone courtesy. So he didn't. He just walked away and left me and my child standing there! The only thing that he did do was to confirm what I already knew - that my battery is bad. Duh! Obviously or I wouldn't be there to get a new one!
So we had to find another AutoZone because I have a warranty there because I bought the last battery from AutoZone, but from another location. This particular location was run by two females and they had less staff than the first AutoZone. But the Manager there Sonia helped us. Before she helped us she called the store we had just come from to ask why we had been sent to their store because they had less staff than them. Jaime lied to them and said that WE, my daughter and I, walked away! That he was going to help us. But that WE just walked off for no reason. He was going to help but we didn't want it. That was a bald-faced lie! He walked off and left us after telling us that he would not help us. But to try to save his face he lied because it was going to take this other woman, the Manager Sonia, to do what he REFUSED to do, not that he couldn't do. I resent the lie and the mistreatment my daughter and I received.
In the end I didn't get the battery because of some stupid rule about charging you for every year that you don't need to use the warranty! What the heck is that?!!! The battery is three years old. The warranty is good until 2016. But they want me to pay them forty dollars to replace the battery that the warranty is supposed to cover. What the heck is the point of having an 8 year warranty that you have to pay for? Ridiculous!
I'm just completely out done by all of this madness. I don't believe that I will remain an AutoZone customer after this. I've been one for years. But this mess changes how I feel about the company and how it is run. And don't expect the district Manager to help you either. I called him as well. I spoke to the person over this location, named Mike. He is also over the second location I went to. He was no help. He didn't care. He was nonchalant and uncaring about the entire thing. You know things are messed up when the people who have the power to make things right don't care. I am so outdone.
So I do not recommend going to this AutoZone or ANY AutoZone. I will get my replacement battery when I am able and after that I'm done. If I could I wouldn't even give 1 star, because they deserve zero after how I was treated.
AutoZone's slogan is "Autozone is committed to customer satisfaction." The AutoZone site states under "About AutoZone" that "AutoZone is built on customer service, spirit and pride." Well, they weren't committed to my customer satisfaction. So they may not be committed to yours either. Shop somewhere else. You'll be better off. read more