After 3 years of being loyal customers, grooming our dog every 6 weeks and purchasing products,…read morewe've decided to take our business elsewhere. The Owner is not interested in customer service, or good business practices for that matter.
The prices keep going up, and it seems like every time we groom our dog they have a new reason to charge more. They say it's because our dog has some matting and it takes more time. Well, yeah, he has soft fine hair and it's going to matt. It's happened his whole life. They know this, he's been grooming there since 4 months. Mind you, our schnauzer is an indoor dog that lives a better life than many human beings. There's no lack of care or consideration on our part, we groom him regularly at home, with the products Fido's sold us, but it's just the nature of his hair. It started off being $5 extra, then $10 extra, then $15 extra, with no end in sight. The last time we groomed him he had the least amount of mats ever, yet they charged the biggest up charge ever. When we asked them to not perform a certain part of the grooming about a year ago, we never saw a discount for that. So this only works in their favor.
As a courtesy, and a genuine attempt to avoid leaving, we tried discuss the issue with the owner before just walking away and she was very dismissive, defensive, and argumentative. She didn't make the slightest attempt to keep a customer of several years happy, a faithful customer that spends a lot more than the few dollars she's arguing about. It makes no business sense that during a pandemic business owners are treating their customers this way. It makes no mathematical sense when you add up what we spend in a year, against what this petty up charge gets them.
When our original groomer at Fido's, Jack, still worked there not only did the grooming look amazing but he never charged extra. After that we've had a couple new groomers and it seems like they get to decide if they're going to charge more. Bad business model for a customer. And, unfortunately, the quality of the grooming has gone down as well over time.
There are groomers all over town, so onto the next one.