Never again! First of all, I have been a Kroger customer for many years. It's very convenient to my home. I'm also disabled and have recently been very ill. I'm weak with major foot problems following a severe injury.
I chose the Pickup option because I didn't feel quite well or strong enough to walk through the store shopping.
I placed an AM grocery order in the Kroger App. I MODIFIED my list throughout the morning as I thought of things. No problem at lunchtime pickup except they insisted on charging a pickup fee for modified orders they said were too small to be free. Ok. We'll just eat it. My order was full of doubles, missing items, etc. Well, it won't go to waste so we just said nothing. Yes, we were charged for the doubles.
Later, when my fiance arrived back home, he had more things he wanted me to add. I started another order. I chose my time and as I thought of things, I "modified" my list. We had forgotten to order a ham and turkey so I logged back in to add them. That order was completed, so I had to start a brand new order for an hour later. Ok. No problem.
At the latest time, my fiance arrived at Kroger to pick up our two orders. He was there for over an hour! An hour and 20 minutes to be exact. He had worked all day and was very tired. It was also cold so he had to leave his truck running. Turned out to be almost half a tank of gas.
It was a comedy show! He was told I had made 4 separate orders and they wanted to charge $4.95 each for the 2 smaller added on items to an already existing order.
Total for the day was over $400! The extremely rude manager, CC was all her tag said, told him you can't add to or take away from an existing order. I didn't. I MODIFIED my orders. There is a $4.95 fee for orders under $30. She told him that you have to cancel an order and start a new one if you want to add or take something off. Really? Why is that MODIFY MY ORDER button in the app? She refused to be reasoned with and went back inside the warm store.
It finally turned out he was charged the fee, but was told it would be taken back off his card. Nope! Still there 2 days later. It finally turned out Kroger owed us .05 cents. It threw everyone into a tizzy! He was cold, annoyed after an hour and 15 minutes and told them to throw the nickel in the street. They told him they had to get it figured out or they couldn't ring out the sale. Another 15 minutes!
I was listening to the entire situation on speaker phone. I heard her, CC the manager. She was RUDE!
When he finally got home, the orders were all messed up!! Again, double orders, things missing, example, I ordered 2 large baking potatoes. Only received 1, (I guess my fiance and I will have to split one in half and share it. 8 Boxes of Rice A Roni instead of the 4 I had ordered, 2 large blocks of Colby cheese instead of 1, several more. Missing items also caused me to lose sales that specified a certain amount of items.
We were both so upset that we didn't even supper that night. I developed a very bad headache that sent me to the Dr. the next morning.
Stress! I'm not being dramatic. It was an ordeal! I spent my whole day dealing with Kroger and trying to get my orders right. Then most of the evening trying to compare my receipts against the orders full of mistakes I received. Outrageous too because of the amount of money I spent that day!! I bought for the month!
Kroger is super close to my home but they just lost a longtime, loyal customer! I'll travel to get good, polite, professional customer service. It will be worth it! I'll never subject us to this kind of torture (yes, that was a little dramatic ), but I can't think of any other word to describe it right now.
Also, I'm a cancer patient. Not trying to get sympathy here. Not my way, it just is what it is. Kroger cost me an entire day with total chaos and time consuming hold ups. What a waste. Can't get back days lost. My fiance told me that 2 other pickup customers were having problems as well. CC never came back out. Why would she? Nice and warm inside, not to mention $8+ richer.
We spent lots of money at Kroger that day. Lots and lots of money in the past as well. It was my store! No, it wasn't about paying the $8+ if that's all it took to pick it up and come quickly home, it was the totally rude and totally unaccommodating manager who totally refused to be reasoned with on anything and ate up a lot of time trying to figure out what she was doing. The poor guys who brought my groceries out got all confused and nervous as well. They kept apologizing.
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