To anyone visiting this location,
Expect to find a great aesthetic store layout, things appear to be organized and built to the upmost standard. New panels, screens and merchandise have been laid out, however what seems to be dragging this store behind is the complete disregard and unprofessionalism of the staff towards customers that come to this location.
My experience at this store was towards closing time 7-9 PM, I selected three shoes from the shoe department. Right off the bat, you'd begin to notice many staff seem unmotivated to serve customers, if they do take an initiative to step in to help, they rarely check with you again about the shoe size you asked to see. Many customers including myself, had to wait very long periods of time to receive service.
Bottom line, they just simply take WAY too long of a time to update you on the progress, I was waiting for nearly 15 minutes to get the shoe size I had initially requested. As I was approached the same customer service representative I had initially inquired about my request, They ended up asking another co-worker to go have a look, while they stood there and continued to socialize with their other co-worker.
This complete disregard of professionalism and proper customer service only proves that it's often not in the aesthetic of display in a store that leaves satisfied customers, it's the personality and nature of customer service representatives that drives customers to consider returning to their store for continued loyalty to the brand.
Towards the end, upon realizing that I'll probably have to wait even longer for the search just to begin, all while I was already under the impression that someone had already been looking for the pair of shoes I had requested to try on. I simply left, and went on to purchase $243 dollars worth of merchandise from another athletic clothing location at the Yorkdale Shopping Centre.
With the current level of attitude in regards to customer service towards customers at this location, the Sport Chek brand will certainly need to rethink employee training, as customer satisfaction was low in my experience, and to the many unnamed customers on this particular unfortunate day.
For reasons such as this, it has become increasingly clear to me that the job this brand needs to get done cannot be done unless major changes take place at this particular location. read more