I was in the store for almost an hour on Saturday, August 10, and not one person out of the eight people that were working there, asked me if I needed any help. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure they were avoiding me. It got to the point that I had to put all of my shopping bags down and pull up the Sephora app on my phone just so I could read reviews on products that I was wondering about while I was IN the store. It was not a pleasant experience..
at one point, I asked an associate if they had any more of a deep conditioner that was on display. She informed me that there was already another associate in the back, looking for the same brand for another customer, so she would have her look for me.
That woman returned, informed the other customer that they did not have what she wanted, but proceeded to look right through me, ignore me, and walk away. I still don't know if they have the deep conditioner!?!
I also asked recommendations for an eye cream from another associate who looked like I was from another planet when I asked her the question. She dismissed me by recommending the cheapest product they had and if I wasn't happy with that, to try Charlotte Tilbury. When I told her that I was looking for some thing safe for sensitive eyes, she literally told me she did not know what to say. And she walked away.
When I finally went to pay for my items, I also needed to pick up an online order. There was one woman in front of me who was almost done paying for her items. And associate came from behind me, and asked me if I was paying cash or credit, and then pulled me out of line so that I could go pay for my purchases at some type of podium that they had set up by the door.
This was rather uncomfortable and ridiculous to me, As I was next in line and I was about to be helped at the register, proper-I had quite a large amount of shopping bags, And I would've liked to have been helped at the regular register with the regular counter, like a regular customer.
The fact that they pulled me out of line with all of my items, to be rung up at a podium by the front door in the midst of all these people shopping on a SATURDAY afternoon,was absolutely ludicrous. I told them that I had an online order to pick up, as well as pay for my in store purchases-
The girl told me, you can do that up there.
I informed The woman that rang me up that when I placed my online order, that I wanted to order some samples with my beauty insider points and that it wouldn't let me. She said "that's weird" -
she said that we could add up my points to see what we could do. I asked her if I could get a sample of an eye cream that I was looking at. She told me that they no longer gave out samples, and if they did, they were out of them.
This statement made no sense to me, but I accepted it. she rang me up for almost $300 worth of items paid, she attempted to make small talk with me, told me to have a nice day, I asked her again what my points were and she informed me that I had 320 which I found odd because that's the amount of points that I had had when I left my house.
The points were applied immediately. I just wanted to get out of there, I didn't wanna argue or even have a conversation about this. As the woman was extremely rude. She randomly offered to get the door for me as I was already halfway out. Such a horrible experience. I then opened the Sephora app and it told me that I had 720 points. So I could've gotten samples, I could've gotten $10 off my purchase, I was extremely irritated. I probably would've spent more money in there and gotten several products that I actually went in there for, had I've been properly helped!!!
The associates that I did come across were extremely unfriendly, dismissive.
i'm not expecting anyone to roll out the red carpet for me, but my goodness. To be inside of a store for one hour going up and down every aisle, very clearly, thoroughly looking for certain items, and not being approached not one time is absolutely horrible. not to mention, the associates that I literally made eye contact with seemingly gave me dirty looks.
sephora used to be such a pleasant and awesome experience but, OMG Not at this location!!
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