Here's my shopping experience at Sooke Home Hardware on July 1st, 2021 at 10:30 am.
I came to the store to get 2 items in that day's flyer in the Sooke Mirror - a cordless drill and some spray foam insulation - both out of stock.
I left the store and went out to look at the 'garage sale" items in the parking lot. I found lots of items I wanted to purchase, and placed them near the outside cashier, who wasn't busy at the time. I asked her about the discounted price stickers on the items, to confirm that there was an additional 25% off the already discounted sticker. She said she never heard about that. I asked her to check with her supervisor. She came back and said the discounted price sticker was the price - there was no further discount.
I told her I would be right back, got in my truck, drove over to Church Rd, and grabbed a Sooke Mirror from a red box by the mail boxes. I showed her the ad on the back page of the Mirror clearly saying, "an additional 25% off our discounted garage sale items".
When I went to pay for my items, she was talking to another employee, who had been stacking wading pools outside. I said to him "She should have been told about the additional discount". He said to me "What's your problem? You got the discount." I said "I had to go get a newspaper to get the discount!".
Unbelievable! Instead of apologizing for not keeping their employees informed, and for all the trouble I'd been put through, he says "What's your problem?"
I think it might be time for management to review their employees' attitude towards customers. read more