i work at Ulta and i love this job. we pride ourselves on making sure the
customer is happy and we are fast pace at the register. i am lead cashier
and this is a serious job! there should be a cheat sheet at the register
for your free gift with purchase and the code GWP pops up at the register
if the product has a gift with purchase. the put backs are usually sorted
or should be sorted and it gets you to know the store. i had not work in
retail in 13 years and i was able to to it. granted i am 32 and i worked in
a professional office for 10 years but this job is fun and as long as you
work as a team and help each other out i feel like this job is amazing. be
patient and be hard working you will learn the store in no time! Ulta is an
excellent place to work!
Agreed Lydia! We share the same sentiments. Sounds more like bad management at the store she was hired at because most of her problems are easily solved ie. explaining planograms (which are easy once you know what you're doing), walking around the store and getting used to the brands and items, etc. No one should be telling her to lie to customers or to give poor customer service. It's spots like that that give Ulta a poor reputation.
you should have been trained a bit better and they shouldn't be dinking
around with the check out but honestly you sound very incompetent. You
worked there a month and still couldn't figure it out? It also sounds like
you didn't even try to find things out for yourself and just went to
asking. Understand that your co workers have their own jobs to do. Retail
is very very simple and theres no reason someone should have had to hold
your hand.
it took me about a month and a half to know what i was doing at my job, for the SAME reason (no one fucking trained me properly). so dont be fucking rude, and get down off your high horse. some people learn quicker than others. ALSO, she said shes never worked in retail and has been working in food since she was 16. i promise you that you have to learn more things working retail than food.
+Lisa Burrows I just saw you on another ultra rant. You're seriously going around on all of these and commenting about how they're wrong because you work retail? Lmao
right. I work retail and I train all the newbies. They all try reeeeeeaaally hard before they jut ask me to do it for them. Then they complain much like you.
ulta as a company isnt bad, it sounds like you just experienced a bad store
with bad managers. i work at ulta and i feel i've learned a lot. sorry it
didnt work out for you though..
+Brittany Ritter I really really wanted to love it, the managers just didn't care. It was sad because I was so excited about it. I asked questions and put in a lot of effort to learn and they didn't care. I still shop there and love the company, just not the management at that store.
They change shelving so that they can confuse customers - one day you go
and find out where skin creams are, second day you go there and they're not
there anymore. So you search for them... and meanwhile buy a bunch of stuff
you don't really need. Classic marketing.
+Robin Carden You pretty much described what the other guy said, just in a sugar coated and almost scripted way aha. Bunch of stuff they don't really need/something that they might like that had previously been overlooked - same thing.
They do not change shelving to confuse customers. In retail, studies have shown that the human mind and eyes are lazy. When you pass the same thing several times you stop noticing it at all because your mind filters it out as unimportant. So when there is a new display or a section has been rearranged, it forces the eyes and minds of customers to actually pay attention to the things around them. The hope is that the customer might see something that they might like that had previously been overlooked. Displays also change to account for seasonal items, items that have been discontinued (or have new packaging), or new products altogether. There is nothing malicious involved and companies do not waste time, resources, and capital to screw with customers. They are there to make money - end of story.
I worked at Ulta for 2 years and I totally agree with everything that you
said. The sad part is that it's not like it's just a couple locations that
do this, there a several that do in many different states.
I currently work at ulta, and I so agree with you about the GWP's. It's
very disorganized, and thankfully now we have a printed off list saying
what is currently being offered and when. But they still need to work on
making it better.
I have gotten to the point where I will call ahead (I have 3 Ulta stores to chose from) if I really want the GWP. About 50% of the time they do not have it on hand for various reasons.
I don't know you. Therefore, your opinion about me doesn't bother me. You're just a girl behind a computer. I'm sensitive. I just don't have a problem calling people out on being a mean girl when they're just "trying to help"
I'm not, trust me. You think I didn't notice I messed up my brows that day? Psht. Everyone is their own biggest critic.I will leave it at that. It was rude. Keep stuff like that to yourself.
Seriously I wasn't being rude at all I was just typing quickly Your is ownership You're is you are I know the difference you don't need to be rude +No Fluff Advice
I worked as an associate at a retail clothing store for three years. When I
started I had zero retail experience - only food service. It was a "brand"
store where they only sell their own brand of clothing, so they didn't have
a bunch of different brands like Ulta does, but they were all about
efficiency, getting the customer out of line quickly, making sure
associates knew about new items and were familiar with what and where each
item was. It may have something to do with keeping up their "brand image"
but I would expect that to be pretty standard in retail. If I had
experienced anything like you did at your Ulta job, I would have quit too!
Your whole experience sounds like the exact opposite of how I would expect
retail training/customer service to go. Your follow up video is really
sweet, but I feel bad people made you feel it was necessary. Nothing in
your first video was irrational or whiny or childish.. very straight
forward and I totally understood your frustration. I think some viewers
took it way too personally!
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+Sara Buchanan I highly doubt they won't hire you because of your acne!!! Let your personality shine through! If it makes you feel any better - I have hormonal acne and its a bummer at times.
+Kaydee Rojas Awwww! I'm thinking I might! I haven't gotten any questions that necessarily need a whole video...but I am thinking about making one talking about becoming a makeup artist!! :)
Loved your video! I just got hired and am wondering if I need to buy new
shoes... can I wear heels? And are open toed shoes okay if they are
heels/wedges? Hope you see this comment!!
+Emily Matley You can wear heels! Although I highly would recommend wearing heels that are COMFY!! Open toed shoes are okay as long as you're not working with shipment!
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+Jessica Domnick I never did online training. I applied online, but all my
training was in-person. I did paperwork a few days after I was hired, and
then was put on a training shift a few days later. I had training that day,
but after that they put me to work on my own. I could still ask for help,
since we had headsets, but training was very minimal. Mostly about the
registers and the rewards program.
Honestly,in my respectful opinion, it was your fault, how someone trough
away a recit and packaging of something that you recently purchase? ?? Are
you new making purchases or what?
+Cesar Morteo She called the Ulta company and asked if she could return it even if she didnt have the receipt OR the packaging. She told them she used her Ulta rewards card, so they said yes. Please take everything she said in her video into full consideration.
I had a HORRIBLE experience with Sephora online! My bf bought me a $1000
online visa gift card to buy whatever I wanted so I spent like $800 of it
online at Sephora. Well I got an email saying that my order was cancelled
and to contact them at the number given, I call them and they tell me they
can't accept those forms of payment bc the billing and shipping info don't
match and I'm explaining that it's a visa gift card, there is no billing
info! The lady I spoke to was super rude and so then I asked why is it that
ulta, sigma and even nordstrom accepts those visa gift cards but they don't
and she basically accused me of stealing it. So it took over a month to get
that money refunded bc they actually accepted the payment even though they
cancelled the order. Nevertheless, the next time he bought me one of those
cards I called Mac in advance to make sure there wouldn't be a problem with
them and the lady explained to me that with those gift cards you can put
your billing info in the profile section if you sign in online and that way
both the billing and shipping info will match for stores like Sephora who
haven't updated their system. It was such a hassle and I was so pissed at
Sephora bc the problem could have been easily resolved if they knew
anything and it made me angry that they took my money off my card yet
refused to give me the items I had purchased and then had the nerve to take
over a month to refund my money back to the card! I'm glad you got the item
you were wanting in the end!
+Nikita B at that time I did not know that when you get those visa gift cards that you can go online and add your shipping info in the profile section. My bf bought the card while in his country, the UAE, and you can tell by the numbers that it was from another country. Had it been bought in the US then they wouldn't have given me any problems but I strongly suggest putting your shipping info in your profile on the visa card's website just in case. MAC were the ones that told me I could do that and ever since then when he buys me a gift card I add my info on the visa's site and I have used them online at sephora since without any problems. The website for your gift card should be on the card or the packaging it came with, just log in and update the profile section with your shipping address.
+Traci Mills I've never known anyone not to just put their own billing information on those forms. Did you list your boyfriend down? I'm just curious because I have a visa gift card as well so I want to make sure that doesn't happen to me.
Um guys, sorry to say, but didn't you see the describing saying that "She's
not upset about it still." And stuff like that?? I would read that first
please before judging :) :)
I don't see how this was a bad experience? You got what you wanted plus a
nail polish... You didn't even have the box for the damn thing how could
you expect to return it when the store will have a hard time reselling it
without the box...sorry I know this is an old video but shit you lucked out
big time be appreciative
+ichibeh she called Ulta and asked if she could return it and they said yes you could, AND she used a rewards card so that means that they can track what she purchased. How about you LISTEN to what she says and art least TRY to understand it before commenting something like that.
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Seriously someone says, Ugh I hate people with long hair. First red flag,
run for the door and dont look back. They will not style your hair how you
want it, they already hate helping you in the first place x.....x
You had to "hunt people down" to find help in Ulta while I will do anything
to get associates to leave me alone. I don't really care how well people
serve my needs at a store because I understand that we are all people and
we have bad days. I try to be nice to everybody I approach but we all know
that nobody is perfect. I don't think that customers service associates
should be rude just because you are returning a product. There is no reason
for them to refuse your return. However, I agree that they always have to
give you store credit based on what the product is worth in the system
without a receipt. If you wanted to avoid this, you should have gotten the
receipt to begin with. How are they supposed to know you didn't steal it?
Former ulta employee here, returns done without a receipt that can be
looked up on your rewards card in the past 60 days, you will get whatever
the price you paid. When you return a product without a receipt and they
cannot verify the price you paid, they will give you the lowest price it
has ever sold for. And people tend to save up their points which can be
used to take money off of prestige products, so they have no way of knowing
what that product sold for to you specifically with no receipt and no card
to verify.
Honey you were lied to. That is not the fault of the person informing you
that you were lied to. Had she given you that 20% off she probably would
have been fired. So sorry that her job means more to her than your 60
dollars. You sound like a really crappy customer who thinks she's always
right.
+Lisa Burrows you do realize that both sephora and ulta give you store credit for items purchased without a receipt right? Like that's their store policy. you're off here ranting about customers but anyone who actually works in retail knows that this girl is 100% right. if an employee says she can do something that she cant, that is the managers fault at not informing and training the employees well enough and that's a problem. if an employee tells a customer something she can do, it is not the customers fault for the mistake and the manager should do something to fix it. whether it be give her store credit for what she should have gotten or given her something to say sorry or at least given her a better excuse than a sorry she was mistaken. the reason the manager did not give her the full price of that product is because if you work in retail you know it's not the company that suffers it is the specific store and that manager just did not want to lose 35 measly dollars for the sake of customer service. I have no doubt if a regular cashier was doing her exchange she would have gotten the full compensation but bc it was the manager, she cut the cost she shouldve gotten dramatically. you tall about retail like you're an incompetent employee who shit talks all the customers in the back and does the least amount of work for the money. If you were a good employee you'd understand the difference between a badly treated employee and a horrible customer. and judging by your reaction it's obvious that you just treat your customers the same way that the employees treat this girl in her stories. please brush up on not only your customer service skills but also your people skills because you're obviously just negative and don't understand what being rude is because to you it seems like the norm. please further educate yourself and get better at your job (maybe while you're at it, be a better person too)this is coming from someone who's worked in retail for 4 years :)
lol right. im going to tell you where i live and work. Thats the kind of information I'm going to post on the internet. Notice how I don't have a picture on this account?? I don't work at ulta or with makeup at all though. And maybe shitty spoiled customers can agree with you all they want. I promise you more customer service associates agree with me. How you can watch a video about a woman trying to return an item without a receipt then getting pissed off that she can't get full price and say she didn't do anything wrong is beyond me.
Thats because she put it on the internet. Higher ups are constantly giving people shit to keep them happy even when they're wrong. It's just part of the business. It's easier for them to do it than to defend their employees. It's just part of the business. Hell I had a woman DEMAND that she get a discount of an item because she didn't like it enough to pay ful price but she still wanted it. The dumb ass manager just gave it to her to get her to shut up and go away.
+Lisa Burrows if you're so confident in yourself that your just doing your job then you wouldn't have no problem at all telling us what department you work at and witch store.Because you get soooo much complaints your job wouldn't be at stake you seem to think.Your the one who was being rude and many people agree with me.The women in the video did nothing wrong, your just an angry bitch that people even seem to think you're the envious employee she is talking about.
lol i get more customer service compliments than anyone else in my department and I'm the first to reprimand someone for being rude to a customer. However telling someone "no we cannot do that for you" is not being rude. It is doing your job right and follow the rules. Trying to return things without a receipt and being rude to an employee who didn't do anything wrong is ridiculous. Anyone who thinks the customer is always right is a stuck up bitch. Its always funnier when they say "i will never shop here again". Good bitch! there are plenty enough decent people to give us their business. No one wants you here. Bye felica.
+Lisa Burrows you seem like the type of employee who "bitches and moans" instead of helping the costumer properly. Where do you work?Because I would never go there because you seem like one of those asshole employees, who seems like if you even just ask them a question they'll be pissed off.I bet you if your work saw this they would not agree with you, in fact they would probably fire you.
+MelsMakeup88 Girl don't pay any attention to the people leaving rude comments on your page . You spoke the truth and it is what it is. Funny people leaving crazy comments don't even have no videos of their own on their pages. I can tell your very cool and down to earth I hope you can check out my Channel and hopefully Subscribe to me and we become friends I love makeup too girl.Your new Subbie
+MelsMakeup88 lol just checked you're update to. That powder was 14 dollars. you're ultas do have crappy managers. They give free crap to people who shouldn't have it.
+MelsMakeup88 You mean like you were to the ulta associate? If you want good service be a good customer. You very obviously have zero understanding of how retail works so PLEASE for the sake of the people working jobs that already suck, stop acting like you do. Hell you tried to return a product without a receipt and you seem to think that because a someone is a manager they don't have to answer to anyone. "They" is the people who decide if she gets to stay employed.