I've spent thousands here on miscellaneous items over the last 3 weeks, under protest. I would rather set my money on fire out on Katy Freeway than spend any more money here.
The problem with this Lowe's, like every other Lowe's, is it's nearly impossible to find someone to help you find items that the website says is in stock or to get items from the storage up on the top shelves. The associates will even tell you that while the system says it's in stock it's anyone's guess as to whether that's factual.
I'm a professional contractor. I have a Lowe's card. I don't think the staffing at the pro counter or the the pro checkout could be any worse at Lowe's in general. During the day, I'm on the job and the reason I've gone into that store is to get something to finish a job. I do not want to spend an hour standing around waiting 30 to 40 minutes for someone to help me or 30 minutes on line checking out. Time's a wasting people! Obviously if you're on the Lowe's clock wasting time is not a concern.
I think my chief complaint with this store is how rude the employees are. They literally do not want to help you.
The customer service rep, Ryan, is really unfit to be in any type of leadership role; I asked for help in one of the departments to get an item loaded, and Ryan could easily have grabbed the item and put it on my cart, since he and the item was right there, but instead he stopped another employee and told them to go to the break room and get someone to come out and get it. 40 minutes later I'm still waiting. Finally a male customer put it on the cart for me. A second encounter with Ryan at customer service over something else told me he's pretty much going to pass his work down to others while he does as little possible.
I think the final straw was when I had to wait - again - to get mulch loaded. I even called back in to the garden centre and finally customer service to get some help. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
After about 30 minutes, I started loading the bags myself. As I was loading one of the last bags, this old guy shows up and asks what I'm doing. Houston is hot. The humidity is ridiculous. I do not want to be slinging mulch when it's 100' in the shade any more than anyone else. I say I bought mulch and I've been waiting now 45 minutes for someone to come help me load these bags, but since I need to get back to the job as I have workers waiting on me I decided to start loading it ... and he asks to see my receipt. Doesn't say he's sorry to keep me waiting, sorry no one came, just wants to see my receipt and counts the number of bags I've loaded. I'm dressed nicely, and my company name is clearly prominent on my vehicles ... hardly unlikely I'd drive off with stolen mulch. BTW, he didn't mark the ticket that I'd picked up the mulch, so what was the point? Thanks for zero help again Lowe's. read more