I rarely ever write reviews because most of the time, my experience in chain stores like this is a mediocre but acceptable average. However, had I known how awful the customer service here was going to be, I never would have come here.
For starters, I was in the store for a whopping hour and a half and the entire time, I did not see a single employee on the floor. I had to check every section, only to return to the front desk and wait in the checkout line to get somebody to help me!! Not only this, but the employees at the front were blatantly ignoring customers who stood patiently for help and even those who tried to get their attention with a polite "excuse me!"
There were four employees at the front--including the store manager, I found out--and somehow all of them were too preoccupied filling balloons to address the customers. (Psst, nobody had ordered balloons either, they were pre-filling them!)
I get that you have a self-checkout line, and for somebody with social anxiety like myself, that's usually a great option for me. However, this store's layout was so confusing that I couldn't find anything on my own, and I was met with a horrible attitude when I asked for help. I don't know why, but there are three different paint sections scattered at opposite ends of the store so that it is anything but intuitive where to find them. Only the head manager knew which isle things were on, which is probably because none of the associates work the floor. You'd expect that to be the main task an employee would be focused on in a retail job, wouldn't you?
First, they ignored me for as long as they could (until I went through the checkout line). Then, they groaned and gave me attitude when I asked for directions. Finally, the employee who was forced by the head manager to stop "filling up balloons" spent 15minutes slowly dragging their feet through the store before trying each and every key on the keychain to open up the spray paint section after I came back to the front a 3rd time, unable to find it!
I cannot emphasize enough how horrible all of this made me feel, and I know I wasn't the only one because while waiting in line I watched the employees dismiss and belittle 5 different customers before and after me as well.
Please, save your time and go elsewhere. I mean it!! Even if you have to drive 30min out of your way to go to a different Michaels store, DO IT. Go anywhere but here, seriously. This location needs to replace all of its current managers and employees with people who actually have empathy for other human beings. HORRIBLE! read more