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ezmoney163
01-20-2004, 02:46 PM
I want you guys to read this letter I just wrote to Giant Eagle grocery Stores and see what you think.
TIA






To whom it may concern. I would liike to tell you about my most recent experience at my local Giant Eagle store. I purchased 4 Healthy Choice Entrees when they were on sale this month for BOGO free. I brought them home and tried one. My son whom the purchase was made for refused to eat it. It was not something he liked, you see he is a picky 2 year old. Anyway, I took the other 3 dinners back today because I had bought all the same kind the week of the sale, the supply was really low and choice was limited. Anyway, when I went today I asked if I could exchange the products for the same brand just a different variety. The woman working the service desk (Gina) said let me ask the manager (last name Lynch) and she did and he said yes. So I go back to frozen food and pick out 3 boxes of Healthy Choice Pizza bread (which were included in the sale the prior week) and took them back up to the service desk. Gina then told me I would have to pay the difference. I was not sure what she ment . She told me they were charging me full price for the ones I just picked up and would have to pay the difference on them from what I had paid last week at BOGO. I said well how much is it I am going to owe. It was well over $3. I told her no I was not going to pay that much for something I was exchanging and should be able to trade even up. I had her call Mr. Lynch and tell him I thought I should receive these 3 boxes of the same product as the returned product. He told her he could not do that since the sale was over. I am sorry but I do not understand. I ended up walking away form the store with 2 boxes of Healthy Choice Pizza plus paid .37 cents when I had walked in with 3 boxes to exchange. I am sorry if I am confused but I need someone to explain this to me. Gina was very rude to me, she acted like I was taking up her valuable time by exchanging my products. Personally I thought that is what a CS person does is take care of Customers problems and returns/exchanges. I am very upset at the manner in which this was taken care of, please advise me of how I am now to react the next time I need to return something to your store?? I am hoping I will get some kind of response from you soon. Thank you so much for all your time.

Brandy D

feliciac
01-20-2004, 03:02 PM
I think you wrote a very good letter. I have never tried to return a food product, but if they told you you could exchange it then it should be even, that's what an exchange is. At least that is what I was always told when I worked retail.

ezmoney163
01-20-2004, 03:24 PM
Well before I had even purchased it I asked if my son would not eat this could i return it later for different type, the cashier said oh yea no problem. This is the first time I have ever returned food, I never thought it should be such a hassle!! LOL

Kyla Kym
01-20-2004, 03:28 PM
You should have just got your money back.

I took something back to a grocery store not to long ago and it was on sale the week I took it back. They gave me a full refund of the actual price.

Your right, it's not fair what they did to you. But then again it being frozen food you were lucky they would take it back at all. I'm shocked that they did because the health dept. is so picky about keeping things at a certain temp at all times. They use to even come in ever so often and candle my eggs to be sure they were safe. I would have never taken back a frozen food product because after it leaves the store you don't know how long it is before it gets put back into a freezer and you don't know what temp it has been kept at. They could probably get into allot of trouble for taken it back I'm thinking. The only way I would have ever taken back something like that from a customer is if it was freezer burned. I figure the store had to throw away the ones you brought back. Not saying you let them defrost then refroze them or anything....but there are people out there that would bring them back and not care. Can you imagine buying something to eat that had been brought back to the store by someone you didn't know? You don't know what they did to it while they had it.

rlynn411
01-20-2004, 03:30 PM
The letter you wrote is very good. I myself would of expected to do an exchange.

Dolly<3
01-20-2004, 05:01 PM
Originally posted by Kyla Kym
You should have just got your money back.

I took something back to a grocery store not to long ago and it was on sale the week I took it back. They gave me a full refund of the actual price.

Your right, it's not fair what they did to you. But then again it being frozen food you were lucky they would take it back at all. I'm shocked that they did because the health dept. is so picky about keeping things at a certain temp at all times. They use to even come in ever so often and candle my eggs to be sure they were safe. I would have never taken back a frozen food product because after it leaves the store you don't know how long it is before it gets put back into a freezer and you don't know what temp it has been kept at. They could probably get into allot of trouble for taken it back I'm thinking. The only way I would have ever taken back something like that from a customer is if it was freezer burned. I figure the store had to throw away the ones you brought back. Not saying you let them defrost then refroze them or anything....but there are people out there that would bring them back and not care. Can you imagine buying something to eat that had been brought back to the store by someone you didn't know? You don't know what they did to it while they had it.

Ditto.

I'm sorry she was rude to you. Sometimes I wonder why they even hire some of these people.

monii222
01-21-2004, 05:00 AM
I know the lady you are talking about every time I go in there to cash my support check, she is very rude to me like, why are you here and bugging me. I have gone into that store to the CS desk and stand there for 5 to 10 mins while they finish up there conversation, that you can clearly tell has nothing to do woith work. They are like makeing plans for the weekend or something. Your letter sounds very good.

ezmoney163
01-21-2004, 06:01 AM
Originally posted by monii222
I know the lady you are talking about every time I go in there to cash my support check, she is very rude to me like, why are you here and bugging me. I have gone into that store to the CS desk and stand there for 5 to 10 mins while they finish up there conversation, that you can clearly tell has nothing to do woith work. They are like makeing plans for the weekend or something. Your letter sounds very good.

Mon,

I know exactly what you are talking about. Yesterday she did that too. The woman who was in front of me was waiting and she stood over on the dry clean side and stared at her for like 3 minutes before helping her. The lady in front of me was rude to her back though nd told her ~ boy you sure are busy today. I was laughing. LOL She is always attitudy when I go in the store. My old High school principle came in too while I was there and he gave me a hug and yadda yadda she just stood there and rolled her eyes because he was asking about the kids and how I was feeling. She is so mean. I think she needs to be a little nicer. I mean that is her job right??
LOL

delSol
01-21-2004, 07:47 AM
seems like the most snotty people have those jobs - why not hide them in the back or something...

one time, my sister was having a bbq and there was gonna be a bunch of us so she went to Publix and bought 4 london broils - she ended up going to WinnDixe later and they had london broil BOGO so she bought 4 of them there and took the first ones back to Publix - the girl was all snotty and wanted to know what was wrong woth thme so my sister told her about the WinnDixie sale and the girl was really mean and said "WHAT A WASTE" and thrwe them in the trash - seems they can't put them back after it has left the store - we all felt bad after that...