Let me start off by saying that this is probably the WORST if not one of the WORST Petsmart EVER, If I could give it less than a star I honestly would.
I had adopted a dog Chuck, through their PetCharities that they have in store earlier the week of February 24th. Now Chuck was severely matted and dirty. The girls at the adoption center said that they didn't know how long Chuck had been on the streets for.
So when I adopted Chuck I went into the grooming salon, I asked if they had any available times to groom him the following day, but one of the groomers told me that Chuck needed to be with us for one week to adjust, so I made the appointment for that following Saturday.
When Saturday rolls around, I drop him off to get groomed with the grooming manager Pricilla. She asked me if Chuck had any aggression problems, to which I replied none that I know of. She took the dog in and probably within an hour of so, I get a call from pricilla that Chuck was snapping and being aggressive towards her and that I needed to pick him up immediately even though he was only halfway shaved. All while being extremely rude and uncooperative on the phone. She just kept repeating that I needed to come back and pick up chuck.
Of course I was upset, Chuck was severely matted. So I asked to be transferred over to the store manager John and maybe they were able to find another groomer with more patience or a solution to this problem. Instead of helping me John sided with Pricilla, while also being rude on the phone.
Now Chuck of course is a rescue dog, and the groomers knew that before grooming him. I assumed that they would try and be patient with him. I mean he was a stray, and he obviously been on the streets for a long time. So you'd think that a place like Petsmart that claims to be all about pets would try to comfort the dog who probably had never even been groomed before.
So when I get to the store, I walk into the grooming salon where Pricilla was waiting with Chuck. She doesn't even say a word to me, she just hands chuck over to me and expected me to not say anything. All I asked her then is if she was the grooming manager and she didn't even answer. Instead she began yelling at me and my mom that we needed to leave the store and that we were banned from "ALL" Petsmarts simply because we tried to ask her about what had happened with Chuck.
All we were trying to do was voice our disappointment with the situation but she never ever tried to hear us out.
Now if you are the manager of a department in a customer service oriented environment, you are trained to diffuse the situation and listen to the customer.
I know this personally because I too am a manager in a retail store. Therefore I know how a customer should be treated and how a situation like this needs to be handled.
Obviously Pricilla, who apparently is the manager of grooming is not well trained at all.
She wasn't apologetic, she didn't try and find a solution. Instead she just yelled at us claiming that Chuck had hurt her. She even showed us her arm and guess what? There was nothing there.
We left because she didn't even attempt to hear us out, So we asked to talk to john ( The store manager) . When we talked to john about what happened he also wan't apologetic and was also not very helpful. Obviously his leadership skills are nonexistent, which is why his grooming department is such a mess.
When we told him about her yelling at us it seemed as if he didn't believe us and was very nonchalant the whole situation. He even called us aggressive, I wasn't yelling but i was upset. How else was i supposed to be? Happy? Smiling? This girl pricilla just butchered my dogs hair. He was still matted from the bottom half of his body and on top of that, scared!
How was is that I was able to get Chuck groomed later that day with another groomer if he was "aggresive"? Simple, it is because these groomers are not trained properly and obviously not patient with dogs or anything for that matter. I would never feel comfortable leaving any dog in their care, who knows what they do to these dogs when you drop off them off.
All I have to say is shame on you Pico Rivera Petsmart and if you're even thinking about taking your dog grooming here. Think again. read more