Dunn
The term "substandard service" is a compliment
Truly the worst customer service experience I can remember receiving in the past year, if not several years. I genuinely couldn't tell you with certainty whether the Kohls.com employees are simply incompetent, impudent, or an unfortunate combination of the two. Even after escalating my customer service chat to the "floor supervisor," the supervisor's response was quite literally that they had no ability to help answer any question or provide any solutions. What on earth? What version of customer service is this?! I actually manage a customer service department myself; if one of my employees responded to an inquiry this way they would be written up at best, if not let go. The same would likely happen to me if I addressed a request for customer service with this attitude and approach. It is one thing to explain why something cannot be done, although in my situation this wouldn't be applicable. I was not asking for anyone to move the moon, I simply had a question about a missing credit on my account. Even so, if an appropriate and respectful conversation had been had, perhaps the end result would have been semi-helpful. Not only was there no explanation, the supervisor immediately entered the conversation claiming his own ineptitude- who does that?! He ended the conversation the same way. Essentially all he said were varying statements of "oh well, can't help you!" This supervisor should be further admonished for this behavior considering that I expressed to him that I felt the prior representative was offering conflicting statements which came across both disrespectful and misleading. During my conversations with a Kohls.com representative and with a Kohls.com supervisor, there was never one single attempt to directly answer my one basic question, (why is the credit not showing on my account,) much less did anyone even try to assist me with any possible resolutions. If these are the individuals that Kohls is training to serve as the face of their company's customer service, they have failed miserably. As a customer, not only did I receive no service at all, but I wasted twenty or so minutes of my life speaking to both a representative AND a supposed supervisor, only to be demeaned by individuals who were blatantly apathetic and altogether dense. To throw an extra cherry on top of the immense frustration following my supposed "service" interactions, you really have no further recourse to attempt to receive a resolution, or hold out a hope of reaching someone who may be semi-beneficial without going extremely out of your way. There is no secure message option nor is there an option to submit a request form to any department. Online chat is clearly promoted as the primary method of contact to request customer service. As a result, even though I emailed myself a copy of my chat transcript, the only choice to get help from there is to call a generalized phone number on the Kohls website, and verbally explain 20+ minutes of dialogue to the unsuspecting individual who answered the phone. From there I would then be sent to appropriate department and likely forwarded yet again to a different supervisor, each time having to reiterate the situation over and over again. All to receive some semblance of assistance with a very basic question! As the customer, I absolutely should not have to do this. To additionally be told that NO ONE, out of the hundreds of thousands of employees who work for Kohls, would even possibly be able to offer assistance (supervisor told me, in writing, that no one at Kohls would be able to help me in any way) is an insult to me as the customer and, frankly, to Kohls as a company! If you must purchase something from Kohls, I would strongly urge you not to risk ordering it online. Ever heard the expression "up a creek without a paddle?" That is exactly where you'll find yourself if you experience even the slightest hiccup with a Kohls.com order. The is the first review I have written for as long as I can remember; if I'm being honest, I do not write reviews as often as I should, even when they are positive and well-deserved. Today I took further time out of my Saturday to write a multi-paragraph, detailed review of the ridiculously unacceptable experience I had with Kohls.com customer service. This in and of itself should speak to the level of frustration and disrespect I experienced. Learn from my mistake and don't order from Kohls!


