The good- this store offers much better selection of dog toys and collars/leashes than their Turkey Creek location.
The bad- our terrible experience at the grooming center will ensure that we will never again use Petsmart for grooming at ANY location.
The ugly experience- I made an appointment a week In advance IN STORE at the Turkey Creek location to have my dog groomed the day prior to leaving town for a family wedding. When I arrived at the Turkey Creek location, I was told we did not have an appointment at that location, that the appointment was across town at the Morrell Rd location. Let me be clear this was Petsmarts' error, not mine, I would not drive to Turkey Creek to make an appointment at a location across town. Since I had a ton of other tasks to do in preparation for the wedding (and it was their mistake) I asked if there was any way they could squeeze us in at Turkey Creek. I was told they did not have any openings for another three days. Since we were flying out of town the next day I now had no option but to go across town to Morrell Rd.
I then explained that it would take me thirty minutes to drive across town to the Morrell Rd location and although I was early for our appointment at Turkey Creek location I would now be late for our actual appointment at Morrell Rd. I asked if I needed to call and tell them I would be late because it was imperative that the dog get groomed TODAY before we went out of town. I was told it would be no problem since I had an appointment at that location. GOOD customer service would have been for Turkey Creek to call Morrell Rd and explain the situation and ensure the appointment was kept, not brush it off, certainly not place the burden on the customer when it was Petsmarts' mistake. I did try to call on my own and was patched through to the grooming department several times but no one ever picked up.
When I entered the grooming center at Morrell Rd the first thing I noticed was the phone ringing off the hook and that NOT ONE phone call was ever picked up by any of the THREE attendants at the desk. I work in retail, I understand busy, but it is inexcusable for three people to stand around and ignore the phone- those are potential customers. After standing in line for ten minutes and an attendant at the desk allowing a pushy customer to cut in front of me and another gentleman who had been in line before I got there, I was told that because we were more than ten minutes late, our appointment had been surrendered to a walk-in client. So much for no problem, you have appointment! So once again we're back to begging and pleading for an appointment today. This time I was told to just leave my dog and they would fit him in "sometime in the next four hours."
Four hours being a rather large block of time I left my cell number and asked them to call me when the dog was ready so that I could go complete some of my errands. Five hours later and I've completed my errands, even had dinner with my husband, and no one had called. We decided to just go over there and wait for the dog to be ready. So we head back across town to Petsmart and patiently wait our turn. When we get to the desk and give them our dogs name we were told he had been given a bath an hour ago but he was afraid of the dryer, would we like for them to towel dry the dog? I said "yes please" but in my head I'm thinking if my dog is afraid of the dryer and his options are to sit in a cage and shiver or be toweled off shouldn't COMMON SENSE dictate that he be toweled dry? How would using a towel on my dog harm him in any way? Is there an extra charge for towels? If the groomers aren't allowed to make common sense decisions shouldn't they have called the owner for direction?
We get our dog and load him in the car and get him home before we realized that four of his nails were bleeding from cutting too close to the quick. Luckily we use a seat cover in the car so none of the blood got on our apolstery in the car but we had blood stains in the house. I can forgive cutting into the quick once, but cutting the quick four times is pure negligence. Beyond that I picture him bleeding, wet and cold sitting in a cage for an hour and we PAID to have him tortured!
Terrible service from start to finish. read more