Crate and BarrelReviews of crateandbarrel.com

This review is not about any local Crate & Barrel store or in-store employees. It is specifically about corporate customer support and how it is staffed and run. Crate & Barrel clearly does not care about either its employees or its customers if this is the level of understaffing and disorganization they are willing to tolerate. I spent over 90 minutes waiting on the phone and never reached a human being. The phone line was effectively unusable. Throughout the day, I attempted to resolve the issue via text — which appeared to be the only way to contact support. I was repeatedly matched with different support agents, none of whom had context from prior conversations. Each interaction started from scratch. No one seemed to know what had already been discussed, what actions had been taken, or what the next step should be. Despite providing the same information multiple times, there was no progress toward a resolution, no escalation, and no accountability. The experience was chaotic, inefficient, and deeply frustrating. It felt less like customer support and more like a system designed to exhaust customers until they give up. For a brand positioned as premium, this level of support failure is unacceptable. The issue itself could have been resolved early — instead, poor staffing and broken processes ensured that it wasn’t. Again, to be clear: this is not a reflection of store associates. This is a corporate customer support and process failure.

Literally the worst shopping experience I’ve ever had. Will never shop here ever again and neither should you. God awful customer service reps across the board. Save yourself time and grief and spend your hard earned money anywhere but here.

Completely unsatisfied. After the bed i ordered was delayed three months, it delivered today and was missing a significant piece and could not be assembled. It has been impossible to get an update or connect with someone live. This is the worst customer experience I have had with a furniture company. How can you charge someone and leave them with this experience?

Crate and Barrel is TRASH!!!! I ordered a chair to be delivered on November 30th. My delivery was cancelled at the last minute and then rescheduled for December 6th. I cancelled an appointment to accommodate their delivery window only for my delivery to be cancelled because Crate and Barrel warehouse could not find my purchase to give to the delivery driver.

This has been one of the worst purchase experiences I’ve ever had with any retailer. I was mistakenly charged twice for one table and four chairs — nearly $8,000 — and had to open a dispute to fix it. When I finally picked up the chairs three weeks later, they had mold on them and had to be returned. To make matters worse, after Crate & Barrel switched credit card providers from Synchrony to Imprint, I was hit with an unexplained $100 charge, which the dispute team still insists I must pay. Overall, an incredibly frustrating and unprofessional experience. I strongly recommend avoiding this store.

I used to buy from this store constantly, loving once the products, service, and logistical sense of the business, however, that is now stopping. I ordered some items on the online website, and there was never a mention, of one of the items being backordered. No email, no follow up, nada. I get the box 4 days later, and the box is completely mutilated. I try to contact C&B, and nobody follows up. I send 8 emails, all go unanswered. I leave a message on the website, it goes unanswered. Excuse me, but do you know what customer service is? Do you plan on staying in business? Well, to little to late, you have lost a customer of over 30 years, because you have forgotten the measures of retaining customers and giving them real service. Not this AI stuff. When you lose customers, you eventually will fall and unfortunately, not following up, or communication is a thing of the past. Not impressed, will give someone else the business.

I've shopped at Crate & Barrel for many years, and overall, I've been happy with the merchandise and also with the store credit card. However, C&B recently switched from Synchrony Bank to Imprint and regarding the new card issued by Imprint - what a mess. It's been an absolute disaster. When I tried to use my old card recently, C&B wouldn't accept it. I was told, "You must use the new card." I said, "Wouldn't I have to actually have received the new card to use it?" Indeed, that's correct, but (per a recorded message) "Imprint has been swamped with the transfer" and therefore couldn't be bothered to actually send out the card in time for me to meet this requirement. So I used a non-C&B card instead which meant I didn't get points for my purchase. Finally, the new Imprint C&B card arrived, but when I went online to activate it, I discovered that the card number pre-posted online for me bears no resemblance to the number on the physical card sent to me, and there's no option to edit the wrong info online. I tried calling the number on the back of the new card, only to discover that the entire phone system appears to be automated with no chance of speaking with a person. When I tried to use that automated system, I ended up in an endless loop which always took me back to the menu. So I guess I'll cut up the C&B card issued by Imprint.

Horrible customer experience. Trying to contact them is the most frustrating experience and you get nowhere. As many businesses lately you have to try and navigate through AI to get to a real person. I got hung up on a couple times before getting put on hold for a long time. When i finally reached a real person she said she would help and then pretended to have problems with her headset and eventually hung up on me. I then got texts from AI pretending to be the person I talked to at first and telling me they tried calling back and left a voicemail. It was very apparently AI and not a real person. I was clear I would not talk to a machine or text and wanted a call back by a real person. It kept telling me it kept trying to call me. There was zero record of incoming/missed calls or vms. These are the tactics businesses are resorting to force AI down our throats. This whole ‘you are lucky to be able to do business with me and you will take what i give you and like it. If not, too bad’ business model will fail. And those businesses will go under as more and more customers walk away. I will certainly not ever spend $5000+ at this business again, nor will I take my business anywhere that tries to replace customer service with AI. I will only go where being a customer is actually valued.