There is so much employee turnover at this store! I've been coming to this store for over 30 years and the service today takes the cake.
If some know, the high end Macadamia Nut products are locked up in a glass case. I wanted to purchase the Island Princess Chocolate Covered Mac Nut that was on ad this week. Along with my other items to purchase at the regular cashier, I asked Jayden ( a minor, whose register has a sign that alcohol may not be purchased at this register) that I would like to purchase the Island Princess Chocolate Covered Mac Nut product that was on ad. He relayed there is a customer service button to ring to have someone come and open the case. I relayed, I'm asking you, can't you help me? He then said what item and on what aisle it on. ?????? Customers do not take notice of the exact aisle the product they are inquiring about, nor do they want to be directed to go back to the aisle to push a service button to get another person to help me! WTF , I then told him, don't you guys study the ad for what's on sale this week so you know when customers inquire about them. He looked at me and said, NO. I told him, well you should. It seems that Jayden is not educated enought nor has been trained to effectively do his job. Or....does inquiries of this sort not within their job description anymore to help the customer with an guaranteed sale that contributes to his paycheck. Or...just plain lazy or ignorant due to lack of training. I asked if the Manager was on duty he said yes. In the meantime, another floor stocker came after having to be called by Jayden for assistance. Mind you the mac nut aisle was in line with his register. Apparently, Jayden does not know the lay of the store nor the what is on ad. Who works here and not know how to service the customer and yet have the nerve to respond negatively.
Back in the day as a retail cashier in a Supermarket, before any digital technology, cashiers would be handed the following week's ad to study and memorize because there were no systematic bar codes with pricing and inventory accounting. Whenever a customer inquired about any item on the ad, we would know where it was located, how much it was on sale, and the price to ring up on the register. If we didn't know, we would leave the register if there were no customers in line and assist the customer to locate it (there were no customers in line behind me). If there were, we would call over the PA to have a stock person bring that product to the front so the customer would not have to leave to find it for themselves!!!
I was unaware of the service button for the glass case. The impression that Jayden presented was that, there's a button to call someone for the items in the case and that I will need to get that person to help me (after he had already rung up my items). He did the right thing to call someone for assistance because he was clueless.
The better response, if he was clueless (after I had referred him to look at the ad, and pointed it out which one I needed) , "I will get someone to help you", instead of there is a button you need use to call to open the case. These kids do not have the proper training and it reflects on the Manager of this store. This Manager should be embarrassed and without saying the employees must emulate the Manager's exact character. Auwé to this store!!! read more