I've been here twice in the past week. The first time I went in there were 4 employees at the front desk and not one acknowledged me when I came in or walked around the showroom for 10 minutes. They were talking among themselves about their upcoming company holiday gathering.
The second time I went in with my husband, we were acknowledged and actually helped quite well! The problem arose at check out. Throughout our browsing, I mentioned that we were somewhat price sensitive, given that replacing the floor in the bathroom was not part of our original planned budget and arose out of necessity. In other words, I provided plenty of information that price mattered in our selection and decision making process. It wasn't until checkout (and a lengthy process by a new employee to add us as customers) that we were told about the shipping fee. This shipping fee had the potential to be 10% of our total order. They couldn't tell us exactly how much we'd be charged because our order would be consolidated with other orders and the cost divided, but it wouldn't exceed $45.
Additionally, this wasn't a shipping fee to get the tile to our house, but rather a shipping fee to the store; we'd still have to go to the store to pick up the order once it came in. Essentially, we're paying for a business to get their inventory to the store to sell to us. Of course, this is a cost of doing business, but imagine being rung up at Target or Market Basket to then be told there'd be a 10% increase on your order to pay for the cost of getting inventory to the store to sell to you. Either build this cost into the cost of the product, or be up front about it from the onset. When I balked at this and said I could go down the highway and get something in stock and not pay any shipping fees, the employee ROLLED HER EYES and told me it had just taken her a long time to add me into the system and enter in our order (something I should be complaining about, not her as I had to stand there while she fumbled through it).
Since they were unwilling to do anything about the shipping fee, plus the eye roll (so unprofessional) we left. They handed over a $500 order - which I acknowledge is a very small order in the grand scheme of things - to their competitor over a shipping charge. I will never shop there, and told my contractor about the experience and encouraged him to stop referring his customers there to select their tile. You can do so much better a few miles down the road at Fitzgerald. FAR better service, better pricing, much larger selection, and much more actually in stock. read more