Very rude and brusque manageress
My last experience at Clarks was so awful I will never shop here again. Having bought school shoes for my children for the last 10 years here, the last pair fell apart after a couple of months. I presumed that returning them would be straight forward.. but no. On my first visit the manager was very amenable regarding exchanging the shoes. I had to impress that I did not want the same pair (especially as a younger member of staff had said that a number had been returned - much to the disgust of the manager, which was quite amusing to watch - clearly the manager did not want this information to be shared!!). Anyhow, eventually it was agreed that we could order another pair of shoes as long as they are the same size - that was fine as he has clearly not outgrown the shoes, they were just faulty.The new shoes had to be ordered in, and it was the second visit to the store to collect the shoes that we were met by the same manager, who despite serving us only 3 days prior seemed to have no knowledge of us due to collect the shoes nor getting a refund on the faulty ones, which is what she advised me she would do! So we finally get to a point where we all understand what is happening, the manageress then starts to refund the NEW shoes. I asked her why she is not refunding the faulty shoes, which we are returning.. no she insists on refunding the shoes we are collecting. Given that the new shoes were cheaper, I felt unhappy that Clarks were penalising me for selling faulty shoes. The manageress got very angry and said on this occasion she would refund the shoes we are returning!! Am at a loss as to why get so angry at a customer, particularly when they are right :) But she could not seem to understand to credit the faulty shoes being returned. Once the shoes had finally been credited onto my card I asked her if that was everything as she never said another word. I was met with silence, so we left the store. It was only after we left I realised we still had the faulty shoes, and sent my son back into the store to drop them off. Very unnecessarily stressful and do not ever want to encounter the lady at that store again. The store is in Wilmslow
April 5, 2019
Unprompted review