The only reason I'm giving Kohl's two stars is because the staff at this location are polite and helpful. If I was rating solely on Kohls.com they would receive negative 7 stars because they inconvenienced me twice in two weeks and online shopping is supposed to make my life simpler.
First, I ordered a new vacuum from kohls.com because our downstairs vacuum died and our plan was to demote the upstairs vacuum to downstairs and purchase a new upstairs vacuum. Yes, we are so fancy we have one vacuum for each floor of our house. Also, my arthritis is so debilitating that I cannot carry a vacuum up or down a flight of stairs. The only reason I ordered the vacuum from kohls.com was because after all their sale shenanigans and coupon mischief they had the best price and I'm a sucker for a deal.
The vacuum arrived about four days after I placed the online order in a completely sealed box via UPS. I opened it up and noticed almost immediately that the tools had dust inside them. I thought this was weird, but not the end of the world. As I was continuing to unpack the vacuum I noticed there was debris in the canister on the front of the vacuum. Again weird, but I persisted. I slid the vacuum out of the box and grabbed the vacuum by the bottom to turn it over and my hand touched something unpleasant. I turned the vacuum over and realized there was long blonde hair wrapped around the rollers inside the vacuum - blech. Also when I took out the canister the filter had dust dirt and more hair in it. This vacuum had obviously already been used.
I called kohls.com customer support for help and because I'm one of those insane people who think that unless you are actually knowingly buying a used vacuum on Craig's List or eBay, the vacuum should come brand new, never used, I assumed kohls.com customer support would agree with me and help me out. I was wrong. The gentleman I spoke with told me that kohls.com tries out every single vacuum they send out before it gets packed up to make sure it works and the debris and hair I was seeing was just leftover from the test. He assured me it was fine. He told me if I wanted to return the vacuum he would need to start a returns claim which would take seven days of investigation and then someone from my local Kohl's store would physically come to my house to pick up the used vacuum and only then could I go to kohls.com to reorder a new and hopefully unused vacuum. I very politely suggested to the gentleman that he was out of his ever loving mind and hung up.
I called this specific Kohl's store and was told that I could simply bring the vacuum in for an even exchange. Also, I was told that the kohls.com person who I had spoken with was absolutely insane. As I am an epileptic and do not drive, my Mom was nice enough to take the vacuum in for a return and, surprise, the new vacuum had never been used.
The following week even though I should have learned my lesson, I had that annoying and ever present Kohl's Cash in my email. My Dad is going to U of M for surgery next week so I ordered a Nike U of M football t-shirt knowing that it would arrive in plenty of time. I placed the order and the shirt shipped on July 10th and it was supposed to arrive by July 18th at the latest. On July 18th the post office told me it still had not received the package and the tracking number still said "pre-shipment", which as it was explained to me means that there is an intent by kohls.com to send the package out, but it has not yet left the building. I contacted kohls.com customer support and told them that the shirt absolutely had to arrive by the 20th. I argued with them until they agreed to send out a new shirt overnight. They also opened an investigation into the shirt that was in pre-shipment. Now I had purchased two Nike t-shirts and still had zero Nike t-shirts.
That afternoon the tracking number on the first order magically updated after ten full days of being in pre-shipment at the kohls.com warehouse and then I received an email regarding the second order - both shirts would be delivered the next day. I also received an email from a customer service representative that told me that I was welcome to bring either shirt back to any Kohl's store for a refund or send it back, minus shipping, for a refund. My Mom returned the vacuum, so Mr. MVP took me to return the shirt and as I was walking out of the building I vowed to never ever shop at Kohl's or kohls.com ever again. read more