I love shopping at American Eagle, and admittedly do 99% of my shopping there, online. I recently decided to bring in a return to save me some time and effort. Probably won't be doing that again..
The store has a square counter, tills on either side. And when I arrived there was an associate on both tills. I lined up behind someone at one of the tills and I was directed to line up at the other till after standing there for about 3 minutes, waiting my turn. I mentioned that I had a return to do, and instead of the staff member politely correcting me to line up there for any type of transaction, I was shot a snotty look and she corrected me with attitude. Simple mistake, when your tills have ZERO signage. No need for the look. After my return was gladly processed by another staff member and I left the store, I noticed the math seemed wrong.
I returned to the store and asked for clarification, stating that I believe my return was done incorrectly, but as I entered the store the same staff member who was initially rude to me, clearly said something under her breath to someone next to her, and walked away to avoid helping me. I understand that working in customer service is a hard job, especially on a beautiful day like today. But the attitude was uncalled for, and ridiculous. Ill avoid shopping in this store in the future.