09/06/2021. Petsmart Complaint.
I am the sole caretaker for an elderly relative/ individual, and due to this Coronavirus pandemic, and recent news reports that there are "zero" ICU beds left in our hospital region, I decided on 09/06/2021, to place a curbside pick up order from the Petsmart located at North Austin (Parmer), 12901 N I-35, Bldg 7, Ste 700, Austin, Texas 78753.
I have been a customer at Petsmart for almost thirty years now, and on this occasion, I purchased a thirty pound bag of premium Blue Buffalo dog food for my dog.
Upon arrival at the store, I parked in curbside pick up area, and called the store to let them know that I was there to pick up my order. A Petsmart employee who's name I subsequently learned was "Bethany" brought the dog food out to my truck and placed it in the backseat of my vehicle, and then went back into the store.
I decided to double check the bag of dog food to ensure that it was what I had ordered, before leaving the parking area. When I checked the bag and flipped it over, there was a substantial size hole in the lower part on the back of the bag. The hole looked like it could have been made by rats or mice chewing through the bag, and there was dog food spilling out of the hole, and into the backseat of my truck.
Premium dog food is expensive, and I certainly have no intention of feeding my dog, food that has possibly been chewed into by rats or mice. While still in the parking lot of the store, I called the store back to let them know that the dog food that I purchased and just picked up, had a large hole in the bag, and to see if someone could bring another bag of the same type and brand out to my vehicle, in order to exchange it for the one that they had brought out to my vehicle, that had a hole in it.
The person who answered the phone was "Bethany," the same person who brought the defective bag out to my truck. Bethany said, that they "could not do that," and that the only way that the dog food could be exchanged for another bag of dog food, would be if I came "into" the store, stood in line, and did an exchange for another bag of the same type of dog food that I had purchased.
I tried to explain to "Bethany," why I made the "curbside" purchase concerning the elderly relative and the Coronavirus circumstances, and asked if someone could just bring another bag of dog food out to my truck, and just take the damaged one back, and she said, "Can't do it, if you want another bag you have to come into the store, and wait in line, and do an exchange for another bag."
So, I had "no choice" at this point, but to go back into the store, stand in line with the defective bag of dog food, and wait for a cashier, and then leave the bag of dog food that I had just purchased with her, and then walk all the way through the store to the back of the store, get another "undamaged" bag of dog food off of the shelf, walk through the store to the front, stand in line "again" and have the cashier "authorize" me to get another bag of the same type of dog food that I had already purchased "online" for "curbside pick up" in order to avoid "all" of this.
And the Petsmart cashier who did the return process for me, was literally wearing a single layer, cloth, cowboy style bandana "mask" over her face, you know the type that a five year old would wear, to play dress up; to "protect the customer's from catching Coronavirus."
So, when I eventually got back out to my vehicle after all of this, I called the store to ask to speak to the manager, concerning what had just happened. "Bethany" answered the phone again, and when I asked to speak to the "store manager," she told me that "she was" the "store manager." When I tried to explain to her why as a paying customer, I was upset with what had transpired and how it was handled by the store, she told me that if I didn't like it, I could "contact the corporate offices." And then she told me, even though I was trying to express my concerns in a normal tone of voice. "I will not be yelled at. This conversation is over!" And she hung up the phone on me.
Just to be clear, I don't "yell" at anyone. I am a grown up. "A grown up, hard working, paying customer, who cannot believe the unbelievably "bad" customer service that I received at Petsmart.
"Bethany" is one of the "rudest" and most incompetent customer service people, that I have "ever" personally dealt with, in my life. And that is saying something. And, if she is a "store manager" at Petsmart, I think that I am done with doing business at Petsmart "ever" again.
If this is how Petsmart treats their paying customer's, at this rate, it won't be long before you don't have "any."
09/08/2021. Just to follow up on this: I was contacted by "Petsmart" in less than twenty-four hours after voicing my concern, by telephone, email, and on social media. Everyone at Petsmart who addressed this complaint was very professional and polite, and this issue has been fully addressed and resolved. A+. read more