Hi all, my name is Paul Moon. Although I always rely on yelp to look up stores/restaurants, I have never felt the need to write a review myself until now. I've had this unpleasant experience at the store and wanted to share with you all how to deal with such situations like this.
My family loves shopping at Marshalls for the kind of product they provide for the price. What I want to write about is the kind of customer service this specific store provided that was very unsatisfying.
We went to shop at Marshalls on October 23rd and bought a few items. After coming back home, my mom realized one of the coats she had bought was not the right size and wanted to either exchange it for another size or get a refund. We couldn't find the receipt but we hadn't taken off any tags from the coat. We've had experiences before where we didn't have a receipt but had all the tags on and had no problem returning/exchanging the item when we provided the store with the credit card that we used to make the purchase. We went to the store the next day, October 24th, with all the tags still on(3 tags including the maker of the item, and the Marshalls tag, and the price tag,) and asked for a refund.
A lady named Jennifer Parker(coordinator on her name tag,) informed us that we could not return the item because it was a "high price" item. The coat was $99.99 and she informed us that we could not return it without a receipt whether or not all the tags were still on due to their "store policy." I asked her to define what "high price" meant, she took a moment and answered, "$99.99 or up." Although we tried to give her the credit card that was used for the transaction she kept speaking of this "store policy" and how they couldn't run our credit card in their data base because it was to protect the "customer's privacy." What privacy? We had the credit card that we had used and the driver's license as well.
Although this was all very frustrating, we tried to find a way to solve the problem where we told her all we wanted was to exchange the coat to a different size, or get store credit for it. Again, she told us it was "store policy" and there was nothing that could be done.
We left the store since she told us it was "store policy" despite the fact that it didn't make any sense to us and rather seemed unreasonable. As we were driving back home(to print out the credit card statement since Jennifer said it was necessary,) I searched Marshalls customer service phone number on my smartphone and was connected to this representative named David. I asked him if there was such a policy indicating any item above $99.99 or up can't be returned/exchanged if there was no receipt. David was very helpful and informed me that there was no such policy unless it had a "purple tag." Once I told David that it didn't have a purple tag, he asked me the location of the store and made a call to the store himself while putting me on hold. After about 2 minutes or so, David got back to me to inform me that he had spoken to the assistant manager of the store, Candy, and told me that she was sincerely sorry about the incident and we could come back to the store at anytime to return our item.
So,,, as we were driving back home, we turned around and went to the store again. Once I went in to the store and asked for Candy, she came to greet us and apologized for the inconvenience and asked if there was anything she could do for us. I told her we just want to return the item and get an apology from Jennifer who had not given us the refund and caused all this inconvenience.
Yes, we got the refund and Candy and David were very nice and helpful. The reason I am writing this review is because of this so called Coordinator Jennifer's attitude. When she was called up and we got to talk again I asked her, "what store policy? I called in Marshall's customer service and they said there is no such policy."
Instead of apologizing she had a very bad attitude towards us and kept on saying, "I'm sorry for the inconvenience, I was just doing my job." So I ask the assistant manager Candy again, "what policy is she talking about? Is there such a policy?" and she answers, "no, you're right. There is no such policy."
To the end Jennifer did not seem to be sorry at all and just kept on sticking to her "store policy" and "doing my job." What job? Making up policies?
Candy had our item refunded (originally my mom wanted to exchange it for a different size but didn't want the item anymore after this experience)
Our family frequents Marshall's for the products they provide for the price but this experience with one employee Jennifer has taught me to try to talk to the managers or customer service rather than rely on some lie the employee feeds you. read more