Be prepared to enter the twilight zone.
Arrived on a Saturday afternoon and immediately started browsing for suits. For a small, specialty store, there was no acknowledgment from the sales staff that I had arrived and perhaps needed assistance. They saw me and just kept walking by, even though there was only one other customer in the store.
I looked through racks of suits and after a while, this very young, dapper clerk with a British accent asked if I had any questions. I was already trying on a couple of jackets. I told him that the one I was trying on looked weird, with the jacket at the waist flaring out. He simply said that the style was "defective." He didn't say that the jacket I was trying on was "defective" and that I should try on another one from the rack. Why would someone who works there say that their clothing was defective? And as a sales clerk, he should have provided more explanation and perhaps offered another style, or another jacket to try on. Instead, he offered one or two word responses to my questions and was clearly not interested in being helpful.
Frustrated, I ignored him and he quickly left. Another clerk then asked me if I needed help, and I told him that the young, dapper clerk was not being helpful at all, and perhaps he was not helpful because he was having a bad day. Anyway, this other clerk helped me out, and he was much more conversational. I ended up buying two suits and had them tailor it to fit better.
After a week or so, I began playing phone tag with the store because they wouldn't leave messages for me as to when my suits were ready to pick up. When I finally got a hold of them, the clerk spoke as if he didn't want to check on the status of my suits and didn't want to help at all. Eventually, it took about two weeks for my suits to be tailored (rather expensively), and I quickly went to the store, picked up my suits, and left as quickly as possible.
The management at this store needs to train its staff better. That's all I can say. read more