To begin, this is a review about the customer service I received here when I had asked for help and for doing basic tasks like checking someone out. There isn't anything horrible about the selection of this store. I went to this Kohl's the other day to get a simple black dress for a funeral reception. Though the man I asked for help from was kind, he had no idea where any of the dresses would be, and I had a very hard time finding some myself because the sections were not at all marked and dresses were scattered through different subsections in a large women's department. I finally found a dress that I liked, and so I went to check out.
This is where the real issues began. First, while checking out, the cashier and I were polite to each other, but despite my saying "No, thank you" the first time he tried to sell me the Kohl's credit card, he continued to try and push the card making me say "No, not today" an additional two times (I said "No" at least 3 times). Once finally checked out, I thought nothing of it. However, that night when I was laying out the outfit for the funeral that following morning, I noticed that the cashier had failed to take off the electronic ink tag. This is a simple mistake, however, I was upset because despite being very straight forward and polite about what I wanted from the transaction, he had failed to do the most crucial thing for a purchase (that forced me to not be able to wear the dress) because he was pushing for me to buy the Kohl's card so hard.
I did not have time to drive back and fix the electronic tag issue before the funeral time, so after wearing a different outfit, I returned the dress back to this store. When I went to customer service, I was still polite, despite the fact that there was a significant hiccup with the purchase I made. I told the customer service/returns lady that I wanted to return the dress, which she helped me with, but when I calmly mentioned that actually the reason I was returning it was because someone had failed to remove the electronic tag while only paying attention to the prospect of me spending more money, she did not say a word. I was not giving her grief, as it was not her fault. However, for someone who works in customer service, she treated me with complete disregard and a generally insolent attitude. When my boyfriend noticed the way she sassily looked at me when I just mentioned there was an issue, he offered: "actually, it was a problem because the cashier wasn't paying attention and he was pushing the Kohl's card so hard my girlfriend had to reject three times and then there was this huge mistake that prevented my girlfriend from wearing this dress she purchased for a funeral this morning." She looked at him in the most insolent way possible as if to say "so what? It's not my problem" and did not say a word. He continued by "you know, just since I know you all are interested in feedback and all that." She continued to offer no words, I finished the transaction, and I personally ended it with "have a nice day" and a genuine smile, which she did not even attempt to offer first.
I have no idea why I had such a bad experience here, but I can tell you that the employees I interacted with were careless and disrespectful. I am not one to have high measures for these things in big department stores, and I do not jump on people when something is not their fault. But, despite my calm and understanding attitude with the employees here, none of them seemed to care or to adequately complete their jobs. The cashier failed to enable me to even use my own purchase, and customer service had no cares for my concern or to even reply when being spoken to.
It is unlikely that I will be shopping at this Kohl's again. read more