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    women's Coleman Drift river sandals
    Robert C.

    Ladies, what if your husband or boy friend wore woman's shoes in public? My $100+ Chaco sport sandals had been given me trouble when worn for 4 straight days at Disneyland. The crisscross pattern in the cushion of the sandals irritated the bottom of my feet, whenever grains of sand got stuck. Had to use a knife to extract the tiny pebbles at the end of the day. Saturday I got the Big 5 Sunday paper ads, and checked out the Northside Seaview River sandals. Went to the internet site, and entered the shoe name, zip code. Individual stores and location pop up with message: 'Low stock, please call store for availability'. Walked over to Big 5 as soon as they opened at 9am Saturday, with Sunday ads in hand. The $10 men's sandals size 8 were charcoal straps against a black cushion. No wonder they were marked down from $30, as the sandals were ugly and the wide straps clunky looking! Had an employee in the back room to get me a woman's size 9 of the same sandal, which came in with thin aqua blue straps, against a light gray cushion. Fit like a glove. Took it to the cashier, who verified with the manager that she could mark down the price from $30 to $17, the price for the next day Sunday. Walked 2 miles round trip to the library to test out the flat sport sandals. No problem. Got some second glances from some of the ladies. Came back to Big 5 at 8:30pm that evening. Big mistake, as the sales associate was preparing to carry a boxing bag set, complete with stand all the way to a customer's car in the parking lot. Next in line was an Indian family awaiting the associate to use a dolly to roll out a heavy boxed basketball set to their car. Got another $30 woman size 9 Northside Seaview River Sandal on sale for $17 that Saturday evening from the storage area in the back, courtesy of the sales associate. Same sandal selling for $30 on Amazon. Fast forward one week to the following Saturday. Checked out the $35 Coleman Drift river sandal in Sunday's paper on sale for $20. Again looked at the men's version with wide dark blue straps against a black cushion. So clunky and ugly! Looked at the woman's size 9 version with thin medium gray straps against a light gray cushion. Tried them on and these were even more comfortable than the Northside sandals. Both times had to come one day early prior to the Sunday sale of the sandal, as inventory very limited. Men's tennis shoes and running shoes come in bright red, orange, yellow, baby blue, turquoise, lime green and white, while these closeout men's sandals come only in black, dark blue, or dark brown. You ever seen men's white sandals? They say it's a man's world. But not when it comes to sports sandals, where the woman's sandals are more colorful and are less clunky looking than the men's sandals of the same model. And if you are a guy trying on women's sandals, be warned that the largest size women's sandals they have here are women's size 10, which is equivalent to a men's size 8.5. So if you have feet any larger you are SOL! Wore women's shoes in public and wife has not divorced me -yet!

    Cora C.

    Came here today and purchased about $106 worth of merchandise. The cashier Melissa is a rude person. She waited on a white male that did not even buy anything and spent so much time with this dude, even when the dude was walkingaway from here and said thank you she was still talking to the dude. I was not sure where the line was so I stood at where I thought was the beggining of the line was, where they have the blue circle sticker that stated 6ft apart. And then another white male came in and was asking me where the line was and I replied I was not sure, and he then proceeded to stand behind me where he saw the other 6 ft sticker circle on the floor. When Melissa Was done with that other white person she was entertaining she proceeded to the front and opened her cash register and that's when she started being rude to me. Instead of saying I can help the next person in line she proceeded to insult me and said " well if you don't come to me then people are going to cut in front of you " I was dumb founded and caught off guard because first of all the store was not that busy. It was me and another white guy behind me. I said, what? And she said, if you don't come here then people are going to cut in front of you! She repeated" I was still confused but was getting irate at this time. I was like. I came didn't I? She never said a word, nor said thank you for my purchase. I was still dumbfounded how she treated me, when I went to my car, I went back and asked her name, she responded rudely " my name is on the receipt" I then proceeded to call the 800 number for big 5 and spoke to a person and she said she will make sure that my complaint will be taking in. Not sure what that means. No apologies!! I will call again and will make sure that my complaint will be taking seriously. I seriously think this Melissa person hates brown people. Because when I went back to ask for her name she was so nice to that white person that was behind me.. racist much?! People should not work in retail if you hates brown people who pays your salary, just saying.. and yes I was wearing my pajamas and my hair in a bun when I came in. Does that matter?!

    Fell apart after several games and refused to take it back.

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    They don't honor coupons. Refused to scan the bar code of the coupon. Go to another store

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    Terrible customer service:( No one was helpful and generally seemed like they didn't want to be there.

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    We found our basketball and the guy at the counter helped pump it up a bit. All done in a jiffy

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    0 customer service....they have ZERO clue on where anything is. The employees look and act so miserable. Go to Dick's across the street.

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    The customer service at this store is extremely horrible they completely rude I wouldn't recommend any to shop at this location

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    Decent selection. Horrible customer service. Big store, clothes all over, needs to be cleaned up.

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