Kohl's review: Damaged mail order

I ordered Christmas gifts for family and some foster kids that I am sponsoring for Christmas during the Cyber Monday sale. Kohl's split the order into 6 different boxes. The first box arrived today. In the box was a very, heavy cast-iron pot with 2 toys and a tween nail care set. The nail care set was crushed with its contents all over the bottom of the shipping box. Who packs a heavy item with fragile ones without putting the fragile ones in a separate box? I called Kohl's. The phone tree is ridiculous to get to a real person. The online chat option wasn't working either. I was told, "you can go to the store IF they have one and exchange it (minimum of a 3 hours roundtrip drive to the nearest store in good weather and it is currently a blizzard so it would be 6 or more hours of traveling) or we can process a replacement but if you don't wait for the rest of the order we cannot help you with any other damaged items." I was told the rest of the order could take until Christmas to arrive. These are Christmas gifts with some of the items needing to be mailed from my end, which means there won't be enough time for them to make it for Christmas. This is NOT customer service! I paid for undamaged items, and I should not have to wait for the other 5 boxes to arrive to file a complaint for the damaged item(s). Their Kohl's Capitol One credit card also will NOT warranty items like a normal credit card does, so avoid this as well. Definitely, NOT a good experience, and I shudder at what I'll find with the rest of the order, since there is another cast-iron pan and fragile toys and jewelry still in transit. I will NOT be able to get a replacement in time to mail it for it to arrive for Christmas. The closest store is over 80 miles from my home! Gas is $3.49/gallon. I get a maximum of 20 mph in good weather and far less when the top speed is 25-25 mph. So I will have to miss a day of work to return the item to the store (if they have one in stock, which may not be the case, the representative said there was only one left at that store) and pay for a tank of gas and risk my life on the treacherous roads, or NOT have a present for the tween foster child for Christmas.

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