If it were possible to give negative stars on a review I would. On my trip to Italy, Naples was my last stop prior to returning back to USA. I had made stops in other LV stores along the way such as Milan and Florence, all of which gave me excellent customer service; to ensure a particular bag I wanted was available in Naples to decrease the amount of luggage I needed to carry around.
When I first entered the store, the security guard stopped me and my girlfriend, saying the store had reached its maximum capacity. From the door entrance you can see there was literally maybe one or two customers. So assuming he just didn't know what he was talking about, I continued in ignoring him. That was pretty weird but whatever.
The real issue came when we asked the sales associate Rosa to help us look for a bag. She confirmed she had the bag without checking her database, but immediately said we could only buy it cash and we would not qualify for the VAT refund. Confused, my girlfriend asked why, that didn't seem right as we had shopped in many stores up to now all with the global blue refund being applied as long as we spent over 150 euros. Rosa replied, "it's because you're Chinese." Shocked we replied, we are not Chinese. She then said, "Japanese, from Asia?" Again, no, we are from America. Clearly, she was just racist towards Asians. We went to many luxury stores in different parts of Italy without an issue like this ever occurring. She eventually called over another associate named Luca, who was in training by the way, to try to explain the situation better for us. He literally repeated her words, basically because we are not Italian and are Asian, we can only purchase the bag in cash and without a tax refund. This is one of the most appalling shopping experiences we've ever encountered, to know a prestigious name like Louis Vuitton who has a large Asian customer base would hire such blatant racists is pretty disgusting. I find it hard to ever shop at LV ever again. read more