The staff there are usually ok (not the most helpful but they're decent), but today I didn't expect to get attitude from them.
I went up to the lady behind the Baby Registry counter to ask if they have a specific baby car seat which is advertised as on sale on their flyers. The lady kind of looks at me with a sigh and asks whether it's the $200 one, and then she said that one's all out and she's been getting calls all morning about it. She looks like she was ready to move on with me. This is at 10:30am on a weekday. The store barely opened for 30 minutes and this lady looked exhausted and quite unwilling to help. No smiles from her, no "How are you?" or "How can I help you?" from her.
I pressed on and told her the car seat I wanted is the one on the flyer. She just looks at me blankly again, although I gave her the name of the car seat. I'm not asking her to know all the car seats out there, but if I have given her the brand, the model, and the price, I would have expected her to help me find the car seat instead of just sitting there looking at me. So I ended up opening a flyer up (which was right in front of her), flipping to the page and pointing to the baby car seat that I wanted. FINALLY she gets off her seat, goes to the back and comes back with the car seat in the box. I asked if the price was as stated in the flyer, and she just quickly says "I need the beeper for that". After the price was verified, she asked whether I was taking the car seat with me (mind you, I was pushing my baby in the stroller), or to have me pick it up from the loading dock. I asked whether somebody can help me put it in my car, since I have never bought anything big from Toys R'us before and didn't know where the loading dock was. She rudely replies that they don't do that and that she'll have it be sent to the loading dock. Now I have no idea where this loading dock is, and she just said it's out at the back. No instructions were given to me at all. Metrotown is a fairly big mall, guys. It took me a good 30 minutes driving around on Kingsway (with a crying and hungry baby in the car to add to the stress) to find the loading dock. I ended up driving into a construction area and the construction workers were more helpful than the Toys R'us employee in pointing me to the right direction.
I get that perhaps that lady had a rough day - a rough first 30 minutes of her work day from when the store opened. Yes, she did get the job done and got me the car seat I needed. But the attitude and her impatience was out of this world. I wasn't even trying to shop around and try out different car seats. I knew exactly what I wanted and yet I felt like this employee was in no mood to help me at all.
Conclusion? I would not be shopping here again. read more