I'm laughing/crying at how bad the customer service is here.
I went in to buy a pair of shoes in size 8. The sales associate, Kevin, comes back and tells me that the white color that I wanted was only available in size 7 (which was the self display) and brought those out as well as a size 8 pair in a blue color. Cool, awesome. I understand that products/colors run out. I totally get it, no problem. I tried on both shoes and fortunately for me, the shoe that I wanted in size 7 actually fit better than a size 8 that I asked for. So I told Kevin that I'll take the size 7 white ones. He was ringing us up, and was busy talking to my brother while doing so. Both shoes/boxes were placed on the bench. Keep in mind that both shoes were different sizes, one was blue, one was white, one was the last one left, one was a self display and one was not, etc. Basically, you can't get the two mixed up, right? LOL YOU ARE SO WRONG
I got home around 2 hours later to find that ~*~SURPRISE~*~ I was given the wrong color, wrong size shoe. My mom called the store and the manager Daisy (which is actually the worst manager I've ever met; she's even worse than an IHOP manager that I once came across) replied with "Ok well there's really nothing that I can do about it, but you can always come return it to the store. We close at 9 tonight"
Ok, look.
You DO NOT tell a customer "there's really nothing that I can do about it". She didn't even apologize. You need to deal with irate customers accordingly...maybe an "I am so sorry for the inconvenience! We'll be more than happy to help you out. We can definitely do an exchange or return for you (maybe insert some of the return policy here), and make sure that you're totally taken care of. Our hours of operation are..." I mean... CUSTOMER SERVICE 101, Y'ALL. I worked at a big box retail store (Best Buy) as my FIRST job EVER at 18 years old, and even I knew this. This is a grown ass woman who is a "manager" (if that's really what you want to call yourself).
So I drive all the way back to the mall (I live in Signal Hill/Long Beach so you can imagine how inconvenient it is to drive 20 miles round trip just because of incompetent ass sales associates), and I told the guy at the register the situation. He brings over Daisy, the "manager", and she's basically says the same thing. "I apologize (oh, now you're gonna apologize?), but there's really nothing that I can do about it". Yeah ok just get me my shoes, you suck.
So Kevin pops out of the warehouse and does the exchange. Turns out that the shoes that were previously rung up, were on sale. The shoes that I wanted originally, were $30 more. You'd think that because they made the mistake, that they would just do an even exchange, right? LOL YOU ARE SO WRONG
"Yeah, so that will be $27.80" So my mom and I said, "Alright, well we just took an entire hour out of my day and drove all the way from Long Beach because YOU made a mistake".
Kevin replied with "Oh, what part of Long Beach?" Not knowing what the hell this question had anything to do with my complaint, I replied with "Signal Hill".
"Oh, yeah? Yeah, I used to live around like the Pine area (or whatever the fuck he said, I wasn't really paying attention) so I totally know what that feels like"
Bro...that has nothing to do with anything, and it definitely does not help the customer in any way. I don't care about what part in Long Beach you used to live in.
YOU made a mistake, so YOU should do an even exchange for that mistake. CUSTOMER SERVICE 101.
"Ok, well these are the ones you want, right" You can tell he was getting irritated, but you should never say something like that to a customer. This basically is saying "ok well if you don't want these then just leave". CUSTOMER SERVICE 101.
We ended up having to pay the $27.80 because the employees suck. Not really sure if they suck because of their manager, but the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. read more