DO NOT SHOP HERE!
I took my younger sister here to shop for her senior prom dress in January 2013. We were shopping early and shopping around at different stores to find a dress that she was in love with. It was a Saturday afternoon at the Formals XO Oxford Valley location. We were waiting in line with about 5 dresses. We had been waiting for about 15 minutes,and were the next ones in line, when an employee came out of the dressing room and barked, "girls, we're really only taking people who are serious about purschasing dresses today. If you're here to try on a dress just to feel like a princess, we don't really have time for that." Uhhhhhh...excuse me???? "Did that really just happen?" I asked my sister, and the family behind me in line. Prom is soley to feel like a princess. If I wanted to buy a dress without her trying it on, I wouldhave bought it online. You work at a prom dress store, alllll you do is prom dresses, so what are you trying to do with your time other than let girls try on dresses to see which on they feel like a princess in??? Ok, I decided to shrug it off, telling my sister it's not like this miserable woman would be at her prom, let's just see if you like any of these dresses. She fell in love with the last dress she tried on.
We took the $600 dress to the register, all the while thinking to myself, "is this serious enough for you lady?" The same miserable woman (I found out her name was Betty) was at the register. She rang me up, and I already had my credit card and ID out of my wallet, in my hand. She takes my card, and says in the most demeaning way possible, and I quote, "This is your mom's card right?" I said, "Uh, no, this is my card." She replied," Oh, well what do you do?" I am 23 years old and my sister lives with me; I take care of her. I have 2 jobs, and I work extremely hard for my money. I have never in my life been judges and belittled, and questioned like that, by anyone. How does she know our mom didn't die in a car accident a week ago? How does she know that our mom isn't dying of an illness and on her death bed as we speak. These were just such ignorant comments and I could not believe my ears. Then, to question how I make my money? I was in complete shock.
All this woman has to do is be nice to people who come in her store, looking to spend money and she can't even do that. Saying absolutely nothing would have honestly been one hundred times better. But she seemed to go out of her way to be rude and ignorant.
Instead of making a scene right then and there in the crowded store, I decided to leave, calm down, and address the issue when I returned to pick up the dress since they had to order a smaller size.
I returned today, February 28 to pick up the dress and address my exerience wih this rude woman named Betty. I took my best friend with me as a witness, just in case. We walked in and Betty herself was behind the register. I said hello an asked to speak to a manager. She said that she was the manager. Ok, well that came as a surprise. I asked her who her superior was. She said no one. I also found that hard to believe. I asked her if she was the owner. She replied that she was "the big bboss; that she was 'up there.' " She asked why. I told her about my experience with HER the last time I was in the store. Instead of bing apologetic, she tried explaining to me that the reason she said those things were because, and I quote, " You should see some of the people that we deal with, they try on dresses, step on them with their dirty feet, break zippers, and don't care. There's no changing them" I wasn't trying to understand. She works in retail, shit like that happens. I explained to her that by barking the way she did, she wasn't going to stop irresponsible children from trying on dresses, that was still going to happen regardless, all she did was offend people like me, who were actually were there to buy a prom dress, contrary to her belief. When I addressed the fact that she continued to be demeaning towards me at the register, with her " mom's card" coment, and that there was a simpler, nicer way to go about it, maybe just asking m to see ID with my credit card, she again tried to explain why she said that. Her measly "I'm sorry" wasn't heartfelt and she didn't mean it. I told her not only would I never be back at her store, but I would tell everyone in the market for a prom dress NOT to shop there because of the extremely rude customer service.
I've never complained about service before, even if it was horrible, but this was just absolutely ridiculous. I've heard about this "mysterious rude woman at XO" before, and as soon as she started barking comments from the dressing room, I knew it had to be her. I will be contacting corporate, because there IS someone above her and they WILL hear about this woman. It's a disgrace to have her working at what should be a pleasant store. Something needs to be done. It's ashame becasue the dresses are nice. read more