Since Sept 2023, all the Lowe's officially became Rona+. So this is one of those stores that get turned from a Lowe's to a Rona.
The attitude of the staff that greets you in the front door was super rude even on opening day (whom I presume to be the manager; a black guy with very short hair and wears glasses). We thought we would take our own buckets since it's for the first 150 or 200 customers on grand opening day, says the flyer. He thought we were stealing or something and his tone was very bad. Why didn't he stand right next to the buckets when we entered then? And he made up rules that it's one per family while it clearly says on the flyer that it's one per customer. How could he prove that when two people with different last names and different addresses be a family? I don't know. He just makes assumption.
Other staff were nicer but not very efficient, which I don't think is related to the new opening. We dealt with a total of 5 staff to eventually get the orders done.
First we asked staff 1 where to find certain item. He didn't know where it is and has to ask someone else. So we kept following him and walking back and forth. Eventually we found the products and go to check out.
Then staff 2 who helped us check out messed up with our purchases and we have to return. Then staff 3,4,5 helped us return and repurchase and gave us the promotional gift card (buy $100+ and get $25 gc). And all of these assistance while checking with multiple people took us over half hour to purchase 3 simple items. It's not about the systems not compatible or need time to merge or something; it appears to me that each person may know just a little bit of something and so no one person knows how to follow through(?)
To be honest, rona price isn't the most competitive and so if you don't have gift cards to use like me; I'll shop else where.
So in the end, the store values "customer" who just walk in and out to take the bucket and not value "real customer" who have just dropped $500 in one visit. You can gauge what kind of culture Rona+ has. read more