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Canadian Tire Complaints - Terrible customer service!

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Canadian Tire

Posted: 2008-04-14 by Ashley [send email]
Terrible customer service!
Complaint Rating:  25 % with 4 votes
Company information:
Canadian Tire
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada

Just a reminder to everyone... PLEASE try to be civil and respect the employees in customer service at Canadian Tire, or for that matter, anywhere. They ALWAYS have some way to help you, it all depends on your attitude and how you speak to them. The managers will back up whatever the employees say about the issue. If you're rude to them, don't expect them to take it and not be rude back. It's human nature. And just because an item broke, or you didn't like it, don't blame it on the employee. Chances are pretty good that he/she DID NOT make it, and is not responsible for you breaking it, or it being defective. He/she DID NOT make the "rules of return" and is just told to follow them. Most people working in those stores are just working there as a part time job, trying to get through school with a little money to pay for schooling fees or have a little extra cash in there pocket. They DO NOT care if you morally disagree with there policies or think it's their fault. If you disagree with something then POLITELY say you don't agree and chances are they'll say they're sorry, they don't make the rules and they have to follow them. If you're still just so upset at the injustice of a couple cents, that weren't yours to begin with, or you think you should get something brand new for free if you bring in your disgusting, overused product, then contact the head of Canadian Tire. And leave the employee out of it. If the employee was rude to you, then please before you get all huffy and demand to speak with a manager look at your own attitude and how you're treating them. Besides, the manager and employee will probably laugh at you when you leave anyways!

I hope this post has helped some people with basic common courtesy when dealing with employees who have a choice to the extent they decide to help a customer! Have a great day everyone!!
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91 days ago by Milan Budimirovic [send email]
Well, as someone who has been scammed by Canadian Tire's auto parts department, I can only say this: it is difficult to be polite and courteous when you are being lied to and cheated. If you want people to be polite to you, perhaps you should seek employment at a store that honours its warranties and doesn't cheat its customers.
89 days ago by Ashley [send email]
Well, isn't someone just having a rotten day? My post was just meant to be polite and state that people who want something done for them should be polite to the people who are in the postition of power to help them. If you think you were being talked to rudely or sarcastically, would you not speak back in a rude or sarcastic voice? If you are being kicked, would you not kick back. It's human nature.

Most of the employees you deal with in retail stores do not give a cr*p about the return system, they are just told what to do and they do it. They can't change the system, so shut your mouth and stop yelling at them- it's not they're fault so they might get defensive if you think it is and start yelling at them. Go to the owner of the store and talk to them, or the head of the coorportation.

I have seen it time and time again, not just at Canadian Tire, where an employee was going to help a person, but they were spoken to rudely or made it seem like they were stupid, so the employee did not help them. If you are polite and treat others the way you would like to be treated, you will not have a problem. Didn't you learn the saying "Treat others they way you would like to be treated" when you were just a toddler? It's really that simple.

All I meant was treat people with respect everywhere you go. If you don't you should expect any respect back.
89 days ago by Ashley [send email]
***If you don't treat people with respect, you shouldn't expect any respect back***
76 days ago by Kim [send email]
Listen young lady, the CSRs are hired to represent the store and should bear that in mind when dealing with the customer.

Perhaps customers would be more tolerant if the companies in question hired qualified sales people who knew what they were talking about, and actually had some business sense, as opposed to young kids who don't have a clue and don't give a damn.

As you mature, you will be able to identify with the frustration that rampant incompetence inspires in those whose patronage pays your salary.

These stores will find (and have probably already started to see) that they will rapidly lose customers as the competition becomes more fierce.

Personally, due to the lousy customer service at Canadian Tire, I now shop at Wal-Mart. They carry most of the same products in their Tire and Auto Centre.

Additionally, little girls should not tell adults how to behave.
71 days ago by Bill [send email]
Kim you outright are absoloutely stupid. There now that its off my chest. Did she state anywhere in the article her respective age?. No I do not believe so. Just to let you know adults can be just as competent as todays youth if not more incompetent. IF YOU DO NOT GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE AND REALIZE THAT THE YOUTH IS THE FUTURE THERE IS NO HOPE FOR YOU. As well judging by the wording composition and setup of your article it seems that you are very bitter towards anyone that tries to help you. For your information miss not everybody gets bitter as they get older as you have seem to. Milan it sucks to be ripped off by anyone and it is human nature not to trust again after being hurt but not every store is the same nor the employees.

Kim you must have an IQ of 35, maybe more as you spelled most words right. But you decided to lump an age group together, all 50, 000 of a companies employees together, and above all made assumptions about age. You are simply idiotic and when you get old and need help hope that the stupid incompetent youth that don't give a damn wont help you out. Seriously. I could go on and on about different things and why you are doing what you are doing but I choose to use my IQ points in other places.

You were young once to, you can try to hide this and you will as you seemed to not have a great experience growing up.

Your neighborhood genius,

Bill
65 days ago by Ashley [send email]
Wow. I did not know posting a simple message would make some people get so upset. I did not mean to offend anyone I was simply just stating that age old saying "treat others they way you would like to be treated." Milan, I'm sorry you think the world is against you and every employee is the same and a certian store. Kim I'm sorry you think all Canadian Tire employees are "incompetent teenagers" and you feel the need to belittle me.

Nevertheless, think about your post logically. If you owned a large business would your aim be to make money? I would think so. Therefore, would you rather hire a teenager and pay them minimum wage or hire a more skilled ADULT (for the sake of argument) and pay them a much much more higher wage. Obviously you would hire the young one and train them to the best of your ability in order to have the business (and yourself) making much more money. But with your attitude, I'm sure no one really missed you at your Canadian Tire anyways. If you give people a chance, yo'ure realize that they're not all the same. Just because they work at an establishment does mean they all think alike.

Thank you Bill. I agree that by her post, she is bitter towards everyone who tries to help her. I feel deeply sorry for those around her because she probably makes their days just go downhill when she shows up. I belive, that by her post, she thinks the world must bow down to her when she's ready for them to do so and if you make her wait- WATCH OUT! Out come the claws and the imprints are left on the COMPUTER BLOG about Canadian Tire. Ha.

**Before you tell everyone you recieve such horrible customer service, look at how you're treating the employee. If you go in there with some unreasonable return, then you shoudl be turned away. If you think you're better than the CSR's and you deserve the universe handed to you on a silver platter just becuase you showed up or you want it, then you are in for a rude awakening one day. I just wish I would be there to see it. Try to treat others with respect and you will recieve respect in return. It's not a hard concept to learn (unless you're too proud), you should have been hearing it since you were a child**

"ADDITIONALLY, " no where on here have I posted my age. I am an adult, working a full time job at a small business. So I don't know where you invented that I am a "little girl." Shows your sterotypical thinking though. Nice.

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