The manager at the Silverdale location is beyond unprofessional and RUDE. I have had several encounters with her over the last few months and all of them were incredibly negative. After my encounter with her today i will never be returning to Claire's, which is a huge bummer because my daughter and my niece absolutely love when I take them here to shop.
The first occasion I came here with my niece and daughter and the manager had the gate to the store down. She was sitting in front of it on her phone. We looked around confused as to why it was closed and she noticed us and said we had to wait for her lunch break to be over. We sat at a table next to her while she played on her phone for ten minutes. Then after picking out over $100 worth of merchandise I found out that more than half of it was price marked incorrectly. Items that were marked at $15 rang up for $2.99. Of course this was a pleasant surprise, but if I had known I was saving so much money, I would have purchased way more stuff. As the manager you would think she would be on top of her price increases and decreases, and that's NEVER the case.
Also, I have worked in retail stores (as the manager) where I was the employee on staff. I would have NEVER made a customer wait for me unless I had an emergency. Playing games on your phone is not an emergency. It screams "I don't want your business".
Today I came in to replace the earrings we got for my daughter when she had her ears pierced there. I walked into the store and there was no one on the sales floor. I was in a hurry to take my daughter to school so I picked up the little glass case that displays the earrings for piercing. She finally walked out and yelled to me to not touch that case because of covid. Then she left again without helping me, to get sanitizing spray to clean it in front of me. I was curious if I can't touch the case, can I touch anything else in the store? Or is it "you touch it you buy it"? This logic makes absolutely zero sense to me and she was unbelievably rude.
I finally was able to tell her what earrings I wanted (after she sanitized the case of earrings that contains display only items) and she looked confused about my request, said she had no idea how much they were because they came with cleaning solution and had no idea if she had them. I said well I'll take the cleaning solution, we love it (since it's free). She went into the back again for awhile and then came back out and got on the phone with her back to me. She never told me the price of the earrings, if they had them in stock or even what she was doing. She remained on the phone for a few minutes, continued to ignore me and my daughter for about five minutes, then I realized I had to hurry and leave, so I left! I went to piercing pagoda where I was promptly assisted, the sales rep knew the prices off the top of her head and I checked out within five minutes! She also let me touch the earrings and the case without yelling at me about covid or sanitizing next to me and my child. Even though I don't know how much the earrings at Claire's would have been (because the manager didn't either), I know for certain I probably paid double at piercing pagoda. But frankly, I don't care.
I have never had such consistently poor service at any establishment before. I plan to tell my friends and family to steer clear of here from here on out. read more