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andrea G

1 reviews | Active since Apr 2019

30 Apr 2019, 11:52

Dreadful service at truworths

The shops that give the best service is woolworths and edgars, hence I always did my shopping there, I visited the truworths store in n1 city in goodwood cape town looking for a specific item but they never had my size I asked the the sales consultant if my size can be ordered from another store, she said yes I must just stand in the queue and they will order my size. I stood in the long queue as it was close to month end, the person that assisted behind the tills was the manageres, she asked me if I am an account holder I said no , she said to me they cannot order my size because I am a cash customer. I then advised her but the sales consultant said that if I stand in this queue the item I want can be ordered, which means that I was misled with information , time wasted as the queue was long . The only thing the manageres said was sorry we cant order the item, no empathy, no sincerity in her apology , not any any way tried to make me feel better about the fact that I now need to drive to get what I want. The impression I got was that Truworths quite frankly does not need my sale, they making enough money, as if there was no other competition in the clothing industry. I felt **** walking out of that store, I would understand if their process does not allow them to order an item for a cash paying customer, but why treat me like I was not a possibly valued customer, in no way trying to retain me as a customer, treating me with complete coldness. Even worse I called the contact centre Saturday 27/04/2019 spoke to a Daniel , even worse, I had to call back again on 29/04/2019 - Daniel spoke to me again and what he said and how he said it was really dreadful " Mam like the manageres told you we cannot order the item " , I hope the calls gets listened to because customer service is not a priority by truworths. I spoke to the contact centre manager Zahir, the only person that actually listened and try to understand why I was actually complaining. I even sent and email to ********** up until now no one has gotten hold of me. The reality is about established stores like truworths is that customer service is no longer a priority , there are managers in stores working there for many years treating customers like ****, like I am not a customer willing to give the store a sale, like my money means nothing. Are we living in the past where a person of colour never mattered or living in the present where everyone gets valued. This is hectic , the attitude of Truworths stores says a lot, I get the impression the company attitude is still before democracy came into place in South Africa. Bring back customer service or close your stores, value everyone not just a certain class

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Truworths
Truworths's reply30 Apr 2019, 16:13
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 We acknowledge receipt of your review and appreciate you getting in touch with us. 

We will investigate your concerns raised and will provide you with feedback soon. 

Kind regards,

Truworths Online Team 
Truworths
Truworths's reply07 May 2019, 15:50
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 Thank you for your post. 

Upon receipt of your post, we escalated your concerns raised to the relevant department. 

We were advised that that the relevant Area Manager has been in contact with you to convey our sincerest apologies, and can confirm that the consultant in question will be retrained on the necessary customer care skills. 

We trust that this matter has been acceptably resolved and encourage you to contact us directly on *** or send an e-mail to ***, should you have any further queries or concerns, and we will gladly assist you.  Kind regards, 

Truworths Online Team