Good afternoon my lovely people of mingle2 I know its been a hot minute since I posted any material, my life was quite busy and I just couldn't post but I'm back, Shouts out to all my " Vocal Avengers" that respond to my material I like to do these forums like our personal talk show and we get great perspective on all walks of life. So let's get right into it. America, have you ever gone to a Wal-Mart, Target, Sears or any other major retail chain and you go in to buy something nice and you was faced a nightmare. I give you an example. 2 weeks ago I went into a Game Stop to purchase a Xbox One S.(for all my gamers out there) I came across some big money after taking care of my family I wanted to treat myself to some electronics. I brought a 32 inch smart TV from Wal-Mart & I figured with a new upgraded TV I wanted to buy a new next-gen system. I got to GameStop and I asked for a brand new Xbox One S. When I got home I hooked up the system and I faced a problem. The system requires internet connection to set up your system. I was like WTF.....After about 2 hours trying to short cut my way to offline I was unsuccessful. I even resorted watching YouTube videos tutorials to see if I can cut a corner to offline....Nope! So the next thing I did was pack it up and return the system with a full refund and purchased a Playstation 4. Now my frustration came in I thought why wasn't I was informed that you need stable internet service to use the system? He sold me the system without asking if I had home internet service. I also thought it was partially my fault because I didn't research or ask pertinent questions either. I almost thought I was stuck with a $300 loss but it worked out in the end. America Tell me your worst Retail Story. Have you ever had bad customer service at a retail chain? Was it something you brought and when you took it home it was defected or a scam? lets talk about it....whats you worst retail story?

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EyeAmYourHost39

EyeAmYourHost39,

Yeah ....like I said I was very angry because I spent $300 and I cant use my product. So I thought about it and return it for a system which I can play offline. I hear a lot of horror stories about how people experiences in retail stores get cheated, scammed, uninformed or straight nasty customer service from the places we trust. Game Stop was an example of my little frustration with retail. I get it, you have to sell product. You guys have to get us as the customer to buy but lets not deceive or treat customers like cattle. Now lucky for me I was able to turn it all around before it would gotten me angry and bad consequences may occur. I tell you about a good friend of mines went into to Wal-Mart to buy a laptop and he claims in electronic department he was greeted with sloppy customer service. He tells me girl behind the register was on her phone arguing with her boyfriend and the conversation got heated. So he fake a cough to get her attention she looks at him roll her eyes and proceeded talking on her phone. After about 10 minutes of waiting he decides to notify the manger. The manager comes over to tell him she's on break.....WTF....If this was true what the heck she still behind the register? After that he decided to go to Target down the street from where this took place. Now ask yourself wheres the respect? If that was me I would asked serious questions

Why is she the only one at the register? usually its at least 3 register attendants at electronics department.

May I speak to the regional manager?

Bottomline, I go to another Wal-Mart or like he did go to Target.

Hey Eyeam, I am glad you worked it out.

I honestly dont make many purchases, Im pretty low maintenance. But I'm sure there are lots of horror stories out there. I probably had them in the past, but nothing that was memorable apparently.

Ms Harmony,

Hi welcome back good to see you respond as usual. Well i have tons of people i know during the Christmas Black Friday holiday shopping faced crappy service and some even getting angry and heated. Im go back to the GameStop thing i saw a mother wanted to buy her kid a video game as a Christmas gift for her son. Now her son is only 5 years old. So the sales associate gave her friendly suggestions for a 5 year old. Games like Mario Kart 8, Sly Fox, and other rated G games. So the kids ask for Grand Theft Auto 5.....the sales associate warns the mom that GTA 5 is rated M for mature and try to get the mom to give her son a more general game for kids. The mom say oh he knows its just a game its okay. Now by this time the sales associate tells her this game is highly sexual situations, nudity, bad language, drug usage and the N-word used quite much....the next day she comes back livid...." You should be ashamed of yourself saling a game like that to my kid" she request for the manager and the manager sides with mom and fired the sales associate. Sometime horror stories can balence another direction. The sales associate did warn her and was quite nice to her but she didnt want to hear it........so a man lost his job for doing what he was supposed to do and not sell a mature rated product to a 5 year old. I know this is like Chinese Algebra but the message is i think store politics will happen to all of us at least once.

Microsoft and Windows 10. Poor software that is difficult to use and often times fails when they do an update. I think the real source of the problem is Microsoft's attempt to make a common software system for your 1/4 computers you call smartphones and the demands of a real computer. You end up with these mini apps that cannot work together because of the limits of your smartphone. The really unfortunate part of that is a lack of competition in an operating system. You buy a new computer and it either has Microsoft or Apple!

EyeAmYourHost39

I tell you another Retail Horror. I guy walks into a N.C.Penny with his wife or companion supposedly buyinng the lady brand new high heels. Im thinking what man have the patence to shoe shop with a woman god bless him anyway. So the lady ask for a size 4 in womens . Now this lady isnt petite or small she's a big girl im thinking a size 4 try a 10....lol the guy came to her with a box of 4 looks to be a open toe heel she tried to put her fat toes in the shoe and apparently the 4 was too small. She she asked the sales person is these a 4 ? He said yes a 4 small you asked. She then ask for another shoe in a small 4. So he comes back out again with another size 4 shoe .She wasnt getting in them either....now shes angry....tells the sales guy these cant be a 4 because i been a size 4 shoe since high school. The guy continues to tell her Ma'am this the second size 4 shoe you tried on and its too small. Maybe a size 7 or 8 would be more comfortable for you. By now she felt insulted and berates the salesman. She ask for his manager and when the manager comes out the sales guy tells the problem and the manager sides with salesman. Now this really got out of control she calls the police. Store security, her guy, and the manager couldnt get this lady out of the store......then she threatens to call her sons....telling them a salesman insulted your mom yaw need to come down here and handle it.......By now 2 angry.young men are in the store going off . By now the police shows up tells the lady you have to leave or you be tresspassing. At the end of all that she left but for once the sales person was courteous and nice and i bet he could use a shot of Hennessey after that day......

That's just f***in' stupid...
Everyone there can see the size of her feet...so, who does she think she is fooling?
And, so what if you wear size 9, or 10?
I have lady freinds that wear 10...and they are cool as hell (one id a DJ)

My retail hell... really ignite's every time I go to the grocery store... well to be honest any store I go to... we are receiving less product but paying more for that product..
As an example ..Campbell's Soup they made the tins smaller.. less volume but I'm paying 50% more than I did before they made the size reduction now... same thing with cereal the boxes are the same height but they made them narrower.. but once again I'm paying more and receiving less..
The list is endless I drink coffee the jars have become smaller but the price .. has gone up doubled... you mentioned a video game..op.. look how much you're paying for a game 80 ..$90... just for a disk with some information on it... they pump them out by the millions probably only cost them Pennies on the dollar... and nowadays you can even download them directly to your system but you're still paying through the nose.....

It used to be you received value for your money... now it seems corporations think how can we give the end-user less but get more money.. from them..

I went to my local grocery store the other day I picked up a pack of gravy mix for a .1.33.. it's just a package with some powdered gravy mix in it.... on the same shelf I noticed cans of diced tomatoes .. quite large cans by the way...for$ 0.88
Now how on Earth can a metal can filled with diced tomatoes.. cost $0.88 but a little pack of gravy mix cost a ..$1.33....
There seems to be no Rhyme or Reason no real value placed on what you're buying anymore..

OldKid46,

Welcome to my cyber mansion i certainly agree with you on about Smart Phones today with apps we dont need or use...like on my phone to save up more space i have to uninstall apps thats not being used and the apps thats not being used came with the phone so i cant uninstall them. Like i have an LG X Charge Andriod device and Noisy Wallet is permanently installed on my phone. I dont need Boost Wallet.....Now getting to your horror story Microsoft is always trying to find ways to be innovative but it only complicates customers and frustrate those whos not that technology savy. I think Microsoft with the Xbox One S will lost money on the online gaming only ideal. Its not good business to shut out offliners but im afraid thats the future of technology epecially gaming community. Going Digital is what Microsoft and eventually Sony will be required to operate next gen gaming consoles and PC gaming. Think about it if i just need a code to install games in my console without even leaving the house well......welcome to by then 2020.

I_Love_Bluegrass,

Hey welcome to my Cyber Mansion you absolutely right its nothing wrong with facing it.....you put on some pounds and we all gotten bigger after high school. Mind you this thick woman already thought she was a Diva with the Italian made hand bag , jewelry on her fingers designer coat i mean so you maybe a size 7 to 10. I think women should be secure with what they are & not trying to be models and Scarlets or Video Vixens and be you. You put some size on or you a natural thick build woman. Your feet varies beauty is within. It cant be defined just with oh you look amazing. Its an add on of you. She obviously was spoiled as a child and it spilled over as an adult today. The kicker was the guy she was with was so embarrassed......

No1PhD

Welcome back to the discussion in my Cyber Mansion....i 1000 % agree with everything you told us and Supermartkets is not out the red zone when it comes to being mistreated. This reminds me about a horror story last week i was at my local Shop-Rite market i only needed just small things. I think my purchase was less than $ 20.00. I brought a couple of loaves of bread, 3 2liter Pepsi sodas Coffee grinds creamer and box of sweet n' low sweetner for my early morning coffee rush. So at our market we have the computerized self check out stands but they was all out of order....so it forced me to go in the general line. Which seems like 100 people with mountains of food in there carts. So by now i already irrated in my head this is a long line. Now here where it gets crazy...so after about half hour wait the girl in front of me with another girl time to ring her food up....the teller bags her.food which seems forever.....almost like slow bagging....after about a 10 to 15 agonizing mintues with her bags ready it was time for her to ring up her total....it came to be like &100. So the girl gives the cashier a debit card....no i think was a EBT Snap Benifit card....the cashier swipes the card and it denied it....she swipes again and access denied now this was when people was getting Febuary Snap Benifits early because the Government Shutdown so she had the impression hers was ready because her friend got hers that day and i guess hers wasnt ready that day....so once they realize maybe you too early or you might want to call your county assistant office to find out what day it supposed to be active.....so after a embarassing moment she felt she had to return all that food back.....before returning the food she swore her benifits wad active that day and she spent 20 minutez arguing with the cashier.......crazy....any sane individuals would of told her to check the balence before you go shopping.

My worst retail stories revolve around my time as a retail employee.
Pretty much every horrible retail story involves the customer and their expectations or lack of knowledge.


Not really. I've never really relied on it though, and I've never had to argue with them.

My main aggravation with retail is dealing with other customers.