HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE!!! I would give the store/company a "0" rating if it was an option.
I haven't been to JCP in a long time, but this time I gave it a chance since I needed shorts for my baby boy for a vacation in December and they were one of the stores that still had inventory of them online. Note to self, never go back.
JCPenney should not advertise Buy Online and Pick Up in Store if they don't know how the heck it works or how to resolve the issues that come with it.
I placed an order on 10/7 and the order was supposed to be available for pick up by 10/16. I never received an email that the order was ready for pick up so I started calling JCP.com and they told me that 4 out of my 5 items are at the store. I can go ahead and pick up the 4 items now. I do not live near this store, nor do I want to make two trips to that store. When I started questioning where the 5th item is, nobody could tell me. JCP.com told me to call the store, the store told me they didn't have ANY part of my order. I'm going back and forth between JCP.com phone calls, customer service chat, and talking to the associates at the store. NOBODY knows where my order is. I was getting frustrated and fed up and nobody that worked there seemed to care. I wanted to cancel the order and return everything, since they had charged me when I placed the order. JCP.com said they could not do that because majority of the items are at the store already. This whole time the store is telling me they don't have my order, I am SOL.
I go to the store to get some face-to-face interaction and again the store associate says they do not have my order....the associate starts talking to her counterpart and that associate said that she did see my name on some orders from earlier that day, however, their computer system says my order is not in the store. I'm anxiously awaiting for the 4 items and the first bag they opened up is NOT my item. I ordered a navy pair of Carter shorts for my infant son, what arrived to the store was a navy pair of Van Heusen shorts for an adult man. The good news is that my other 3 items were correct, but I am still missing the 5th item from my order that nobody knows where it is. The original associate that told me my order wasn't at the store now had a change in attitude from being irritated with me to being friendly. She said she was new and so were a lot of people on her team and the whole buy online, reserve in store option is new to them, so they were all going through learnings and she is going to take it upon herself to resolve this issue. I thought FINALLY, someone is going to fix this stupid problem. I had to cut the conversation short (it was already 30min in) since I was on lunch and the associate was trying to figure out how to do a return on the adult pair of shorts, but didn't know how since it was a different process for Buy Online Reserve in Store and she was going to find out. She was also going to return my 5th item back to me. She gave me the store's phone number and her name to call her and follow up later in the day. I walked away feeling less angry and somewhat relieved that they found my order since they had already charged me.
I called the store back later and the phone just kept ringing, NOBODY answered the store phone....well this is a first...I tried calling back 2 days later and the associate did return my shorts, I saw the credit go back on my credit card. For the 5th item that nobody knew where it is, she was supposed to refund it onto store credit and order it and express ship it to my house, she instead just put it on store credit and said she sent it to my house 7 days ago. I have yet to receive it and she was mailing it from her store to my house which is in the same city.
Who knows if I will ever receive the store credit, but this was a learning. I've been so irritated with this whole incident, I tried to get my compliant out in social media and it went to a black hole on FB, so this is my next resort.
Some suggestions for the company:
1) Do not charge the customer until the items are picked up, so there is less hassle
2) Train associates and management on Buy Online, Reserve in Store process!!
3) Have better customer service - store manager should have really stepped in here
4) Answer the phones at the store
This is a prime example of why the company is going to $hit read more