Store location: Countess Weir Exeter
I am writing to you to make a formal complaint about your staff and the poor attitude I recently encountered. As a customer satisfaction organisation I would expect you to understand good customer service. To explain this in more detail I have been very upset by the service shown by a checkout man named Jason in this branch. I as I always do, put my shopping in order from heavy to light on the conveyor belt, I must admit my normal Aldi branch I shop in is Alphington Road Exeter, where the staff are so friendly and polite. I had a shock at the new store in Countess Weir. I put large bags into the trolley to pack my shopping as it gets scanned through, this saves me as I'm disabled loading the trolley again and lifting heavy bags, I have never had any issues my my normal store but today I left so upset and by the time I had gone through the check out man, a supervisor and a manager I could have cried. I am a disabled lady and my daughter had taking me shopping, whilst my groceries were going though, so fast that I couldn't keep up, I asked him to slow down, to which he did not! I am a ITP sufferer which means I have internal bleeds my health is dangerous, Jason was piling and just stacking my goods anywhere and everywhere till the point came that I couldn't get hold of the carrier bags I purchased because he had piled huge amounts of shopping on top and more shopping on top of that. Whilst he went so quickly I had to stop packing, I told him to slow down as all my shopping was being piled high, about to fall of the checkout and my soft items getting squashed. I shouldn't have to explain my personnel private health issues with anyone, I thought being a customer server he would have listened and slowed down or even offer to help me, but instead I got a mouthful of rudeness and arrogance, I really couldn't believe I was being spoken to in this way. I asked to speak to a manager where a young girl came over and was so rude and sarcastic that her customer skills were appaulling. She smirked and smiled at the checkout man (obviously finding it funny, I can guarantee you this was not funny!!) when I was trying to explain the situation, I asked her what she thought, I had no apology but a lot of sarcastic remarks regarding how the checkout worker was the best Aldi has and she didn't believe what I was saying, she never once looked at me, I said I'm a unhappy customer which her reply was 'so'! With that attitude I knew she surely couldn't be the Manager, so I asked her rank, she was a supervisor who walked off and there were smirks given and no apologies. I asked for the Manager for a second time to be greeted by Glen, again no apologies for being upset or helped, just that he would take Jason in to look at the CCVT, I said I hope he did. I explained to the manager that just a few tins of food being passed so quickly could and would have smashed into my hands where I would instantly have a internal bleed. Answer to me was
"He wasn't to know" well Im sorry just because I am not an old lady in a wheel chair, this is a life threatening illness where I am a patient of a cancer ward and has been for 23 years. Im horrified, in all my years of being a wife and mother and a grandmother I have never met a store so rude and arrogant. I will not be shopping with Aldi again. This has upset me profusely and so my daughter. What happened to great customer communications. This check out man was still being rude and arrogant as my daughter and I tried to leave the store. I hope there is cctv footage and i hope there is sound to it, because its disgraceful way to treat your customers. This occurred on the February 24th, 2018.
To resolve this issue I would like your company to review this and take what action is necessarily needed, and hopefully someone will contact me. It comes down to speculation again, I wasn't in a wheelchair today, one of the very few I'm not. Shouldn't every customer be treated the same and with respect!?.
I am extremely disappointed with your organisation at this time and I expect a response to my correspondence within at least 3 days. I find it reasonable to be resolved within 14 days. If this is not the case, I will be escalating my case.
Please reply to my resolver email account as I would like to keep all of my communications in my personalised complaints case file.
Yours faithfully
Elaine Woolacott