The reviews seem to be consistently poor with this Carter's store. I had purchased over $90.00 worth of clothing for my daughter at the Carter's in the Tustin Marketplace (mind you the store was 50-60% off so I truly spent more than $90); however, they only had one particular size in a jelly shoe that I wanted to buy, the manager (at least that's who she told me she was) rang me up with another size shoe (of the same style, just different size) and said "if they give you problems tell them the manager used a different size). I get home, the shoes fit, but I doubt I'd get use out of them for the whole summer so I decided to EXCHANGE for a bigger size and ran to the Block of Orange. I didn't have a small bag so I dumped them in my purse and ran out the door. As soon as I walked into the store I saw two sales associates sitting at the front and pulled out the shoes and proceeded to tell them the story about the Tustin store. I'm assuming the manager took over and handled my transaction. She asked me if I had a receipt to which I said "no, cant you look it up with my phone number?" and then for a split second thought I had it in my wallet so I pull out my wallet and begin to look for the receipt, I don't have it. As she's looking at me up and down with disgust in her eyes (maybe I looked homeless, I had been home sick for two days) she said "didn't they email it to you?" I was so excited at the suggestion, that yes, yes they did email me my receipt so I get in my purse to pull out my phone and OMG -- I left my phone in my car at Valet, yes I'll pay $7.00 to park my car if its saving my sanity...keep with me.
OMG!!!!! You'd think that I was holding the store up at gunpoint with the looks and comments this associate was giving me. She said "I dont know why a MANAGER would do something like that she knows that's not procedure for our stores so I'll need to call over there and have a talk with the manager." Okay, please call them...waiting. Another associate walks over with her cell phone in her hand and places it down at the register opposite side of me and bumps the manager to read it, clearly I cant read what she's placed in front of the manager but it was clearly directed at me as she shakes her head in agreement and mumbles something as she's searching my receipt. She said "you're receipt isnt going to do anything for me because these shoes arent even on this receipt." I say, "that's odd, I saw her grab another pair of the same shoe just a different size and used that barcode to ring me up." Again, the stares and disgust from this chicks face! I finally say "if its an issue I can go to the Tustin store, I was just there on Friday but the only issue is that they dont have the size I need!" to which she says "I'm trying to find the skew they used because nothing's coming up on your receipt, I'm going to have to call this store and talk to them!" Girlllll....you better call this store and talk to them because I'm tired of hearing that come out your mouth! After about 15 minutes of her giving me the side eye, glaring at me for thinking it would be okay to do an exchange AT HER STORE and her being unable to find something to ring up she manually did the exchange and for good measure wanted to make sure that she gave me a receipt that said I was unable to make another return of that item! Really, you think I went through all of that to come back and return them again? Your $9.00 shoes arent worth the issues you gave me to make a return. I have NEVER been treated so poorly in my life. I was almost embarrassed had I known I was doing nothing wrong to begin with. I'm sure my face said WTF but instead of acting like an idiot I took my $9.00 shoes and left and said to myself "I'll be sure to write a review of this chick."
Maybe its the clientele that frequents that mall, or my sickly appearance or that I wasn't fearful that she was "going to call that store and have a talk with the manager" but this chick was a joke! I'll never return to this store again. I'll go to Carter stores where I belong, you know Tustin Ranch and Irvine and whatnot, at least there I dont get side eyes and comments from the peanut gallery employees. But hey! Thanks for finally doing your job and exchanging the shoes for me. My daughter will look on point this summer in ALL OF HER CARTER CLOTHING I CONTINUOUSLY BUY...JUST NOT FROM THIS CRAP STORE. read more