First of all this complaint is for Sam's Club Store Number: 6260 located at 8480 Highway 64, Bartlett, Tennessee 38133. I am a 71 year old man with COPD, High Blood Pressure, Arthritis in my hips and a severe hearing loss in both of my ears due to an in miliitary service injury. The COPD makes it difficult to breathe if I exert myself, the Arthritis makes it difficult to walk more than 200 feet without stopping. The Arthritis also makes standing in one spot for any length of time extremely painful. Of course, my hearing loss makes it difficult hearing people.
Please note due to my infirmaries, I rarely leave my house to shop. I prefer to purchase items from either Walmart, Sam's, Amazon and eBay then have them delivered to my home.
However, on February 11th, 2024 I drove to the above listed Sam's Club location to 1) return a battery for a core charge refund and 2) to talk to someone about a gift card purchased at the Jackson, Tennessee store by my son. It would appear that the cashier did not process the card correctly at the point of sale in Jackson, Tn. Therefore the cashier's failure to do so left the card unactivated for use. After some consideration, I determined that the cashier most likely scanned one of the two cards being purchased twice thereby leaving the one card not usable. As a side note, I will be calling the issuer of the card this morning, February 12th, as soon as they open.
Upon arrival, I found there were no carts inside the building at all, no electric carts or push carts, none, nada, zilch! I had to hobble around the parking lot to find a usable cart to place the battery in. Once that was accomplished, I took the battery into the store and got in the Customer Service Line to discuss the Gift Card issue. After approximately 5 minutes in the Customer Service line, a person from the Tire and Battery center started calling loudly for me to bring the battery to him so he can process it. He did not know that it was a core return at the time. In any case, he continued to call me, which was annoying, I informed him that I would take care of the battery once I finished talking to Customer Service. He just would not stop calling, so to shut him up, I got out of the CS line went over to the Tire and Battery counter. Of course, he then proceded to take his time processing the return. I provided my membership ID and the receipt but he continued to dillydally processing the return. I finally got fed up with his lackadaisical attitude and requested to see a manager. The "so called" manager (I saw no name tag or any indication of her position anywhere on her clothing) was much worse than the clerk in the Tire and Battery center. Her attitude was I just don't care what your complaint is, just shut up and leave me alone! So no help there. After that, I left the Tire and Battery center to get back into line for the Customer Service desk. Mind you the T & B center clerk already had all the information neccessary to process the refund of the core charge. He did not do so and as of this review the store hasn't refunded the charge to the card it was purchased on. Finally, I tried to discuss the issue with the Gift Card with the clerk at the CS desk and was told that due to Sam's Club's policy, they will do nothing to rectify the issue. Again, this issue with the card is all due to the purchase of the card not being processed properly by their cashier.
To say the least, I was upset and 100% frustrated by the attitude and treatment I received at the hands of the store employees. I mentioned that I had enough of stupid for one day and left the CS desk. I at no time called the CS desk employee stupid. I was referring to the things I had experienced through out the day. One, of those stupid things, was the darn Sam's Club policy about Gift Cards. However, the CS clerk told the "so called" manager I called her stupid, which, of course, was a lie.
At this point, I have a premium Plus Club membership with Sam's Club. I am seriously considering closing it. There is a Costco store less than a mile from the Sam's. I really do not have to shop at Sam's Club at all. Additionally, I refuse to step foot into Sam's Club Store Number: 6260 for any reason.
I have filed a complaint with the store's home office and I will be filing a complaint with the Better Business Bureau once they open at 9:00 a.m. read more