Showing posts with label cake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cake. Show all posts

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Kroger success!!!

Following up from my letter to Kroger, I got an email from the store manager.

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Dear ,

I apologize for the less than satisfactory experience that you encountered while shopping at Madeira Kroger. We strive everyday to offer our customers superior customer service. Unfortunately, this was not the case in this situation. Please accept my apologies and your next cake order for free. All you have to do is bring in this email and I will give you a complimentary cake of your choice.

Sincerely,

Store Manager
Madeira Kroger
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Score!!! I haven't decided if I will use this for my next work cake or just get a cake for our family with this or something else.

Friday, September 12, 2008

Kroger cake fiasco

Hello,

I am writing to complain about some poor service I received this morning at my local Kroger store (#402 - Madeira Ohio). At my work, we have a team meeting each month and as part of that we buy a cake to share as a birthday treat for the members of our team who have had birthdays during the past month.

Today was the first month of it now being my responsibility to buy this cake. I headed to Kroger early this morning and started browsing the cake selections. They all had various prices on them but there was one without a price. I held it up to the worker behind the bakery counter and asked how much this cake was. She said $8.99 - this seemed like a good deal compared to the other cake prices so I put it in my cart and headed to the checkout.

When I got there, it rang up $15.99. I told the cashier that the bakery worker had told me it was $8.99. Apparently $8.99 is the standard price for 1/8 sheet cakes, whereas the one I got was a 1/4 sheet. I asked her to call back to bakery on the phone which she did. Rather than modify the price to $0 (which would seemingly be the thing to do per your price scan guarantee), or even apologize for not seeing the size of the cake I held up (after all, an honest mistake), the bakery worker told the cashier THAT THE CAKE I HELD UP WAS A 1/8 SHEET CAKE!!!! Umm, no, no it was not.

If this is the kind of service I can expect from Kroger stores, I will be making my future monthly cake purchases at Meijer.

Thank you for your time

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Update 21-Sep-2008 - success!