Time: 12:30PM Date: 7/31/15 Weather: Clear and warm
I came here with my friend who's getting married in three weeks, to look for bridesmaids gifts. Her mother was with us as well. Upon entering the store, we were not greeting by anyone. Although, there were two employees present on the floor (one associate, one manager). After being in the store for 10 minutes with approximately 10 other people, they continued their conversation on not using text messaging to do business. It wasn't until someone asked to try something on, that they finally broke their conversation.
The associate came to help the customer with a bracelet that happened to be by our party. After helping her, my friend's mom proceeded to ask the associate how she could get a piece she has at home, to really sparkle. The associate said she could by a cloth. My friend's mom asked her if they store offered a cleaning service. The associate laughed and said "No. That's weird." We asked we that would be so weird, she said because no one has ever asked me that before. We told her, well other jewelry stores, such as Tiffany's do offer the service. So its not really something that you laugh at when someone asks you if your "fine" jewelry store provides that type of service. She shrugged it off and walked away. (I'd like to note the associate came up to us scratching her underarm. Who the hell scratches their arm pit in public, no less while working retail?)
After a couple more minutes, I simply had to walk outside, because I could feel myself getting extremely upset. I've worked in a retail store part time for over 15 years. The reason why I maintained that job in addition to my full time office job, is because I like interacting with other people and providing excellent customer service. I had a manager of an outlet store say she was a stickler for customer service because she did not want her store to fall into the typical bad service category as other outlet stores.
This store was the prototype of what bad customer service looks like. You ignore your customers, belittle them when they ask you a question with an accent and then not accept responsibility when you've made a mistake.
I went back to the store after we left and asked Jennifer (the store manager) for her district managers name and phone number. She proceeds to give me her card, stating she'll forward my email to her district manager and she's not allowed to give out her information. Seriously, was I born yesterday? I know she has no intention at all in forwarding my strongly worded email. But at least you all will now know what to expect when entering that store. No one will acknowledge you. Except maybe to make you feel bad about asking a perfectly normal question. Oh and they won't let you buy 6 of an item with a coupon because the coupon only allows 3. Goodness knows, they're raking in the dough from they're "sparkling" customer service. read more