The person working at the shop today (I'm assuming she is the manager as she kept calling it her store) was so curt and unhelpful. I walked in with my soon to be daughter-in-law and waited patiently. There were other people in the store and the only associate we saw was helping other people. We discussed shoes in the shop and looked around while we waited. The shop associate looks up and asks us what we wanted. There was no smile or greeting at all.
Now I have worked in food service and customer service and I know that working in a crowded mall on a Saturday sucks. However, as you're being paid to be there, it might make everyone's day go by a little faster if you were pleasant to work with. Just a thought.
We came for two reasons: an exchange and to purchase two different pairs of shoes. She retrieved the shoes I wanted to try on. Then she looked at my exchange and immediately said "we no longer carry this version at my store, they will have to be shipped". For the record. I'm fine with that. I didn't need to walk out with the shoes today. That being said it may have been nice for her to offer to show me the version they do carry, again just a thought. She looked at my box (it was a Christmas gift I bought for someone else and effed up the sizing) and immediately I knew she was going to argue with me about the exchange, but they were completely unworn and in the box, so I just gave her my account info. While she looked up my account my daughter-in-law showed her two photos of points she wanted to see for her wedding day. The associate, without pause, without to check her stock, without offering any help at all, said "if you don't see it on my shelves, then I don't carry it. You can order it online" I was pretty fed up at this point with the unhelpful attitude and just wanted to leave. Then she found my purchase on my account and made a noise that I can only describe as "yeah, that's what I expected" (I have three kids and am 8 months pregnant...I make that noise at least 2 dzn times a day. I know it well). She turns her iPad around to show me that not only are they out of the return date but I had a discount on them and they were final sale therefore she would not be able to help me. I explained that the purse strap on that same receipt was the only item with a discount and final sale, the shoes were not final sale, nor discounted, and I didn't want a refund, just an exchange. She started speaking to me like one may speak to a 4 year who is deaf and doesn't speak the same language in a 90's sitcom (except there was no laugh track at this store). I said "Thank you and we're done". She then asked about the shoes I tried on. I politely declined.
As a side note to the here, I have purchased over the last 7 years over 50 pairs of Rothy's between three accounts. This is not to brag, this is to say that I clearly have a Rothy's addiction and can be easily talked into just about any purchase. If I, gentle reader, abandoned shoes that I tried on and liked...the customer service needs to be addressed. read more