Marisol M.

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Dillard's

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“Discrimination, threatening and intimidating towards Spanish speakers.”

10/8/23

After today's experience at Dillards, my opinion is that some of their employees are discriminating, intimidating and threatening towards Spanish speaking customers. My name is Dr. Mary Miller, and on 9/23 I purchased a bed quilt for my mother who was arriving from Spain on 10/6. We made her bed and found a hole in the quilt. I found it unacceptable to have a hole in a new merchandise, and I called Dillards immediately. The customer service representative stated that it would not be a problem that I did not have a physical receipt on hand. According to her, showing my bank statement would be enough. Well, my 80 year old mother and I returned to Dillards to exchange the damaged quilt. When we arrived, we first we talked to the same two clerks who sold me the quilt; but one of the explained that even after she saw my bank statement there was nothing that she could do as I didn't have a proof of purchase. I escalated the situation and spoke to the manager, The Hime Department manager's attitude from the beginning was demeaning and condescending, she profoundly refused to either exchange or return the quilt. She stated that she believed that we had washed the quilt, because they don't sell damaged merchandise. I repeated time and time again that I did not wash the merchandise, and she flat out called me a liar. She began to raise her voice, got frustrated and threatened us to call security to have us removed from the store. This woman was ready to have my disabled mother and I escorted out of Dillards because we wanted to exchange damaged/defective merchandise. Later on, at one point she mocked me by saying, "but you a doctor and can buy another quilt!". After she realised that her intimidation tactics did not work, she decided to talk to customer service and I received a gift for only $86.60 out of the $124 that I had initially paid. Some credit is better than nothing, I thought. I am appalled of such discriminating customer Service at Dillards; especially knowing that Hispanics make up 31% percent of the population.

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Shame on Dillards threatening, discriminating and intimidating customer service towards Spanish speaking customers!!!selling damaged products is unacceptable!

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After today’s experience at Dillards, my opinion is that some of their employees are discriminating, intimidating and threatening towards Spanish speaking customers. My name is Dr. Mary Miller, and on 9/23 I purchased a bed quilt for my mother who was arriving from Spain on 10/6. We made her bed and found a hole in the quilt. I found it unacceptable to have a hole in a new merchandise, and I called Dillards immediately. The customer service representative stated that it would not be a problem that I did not have a physical receipt on hand. According to her, showing my bank statement would be enough. Well, my 80 year old mother and I returned to Dillards to exchange the damaged quilt. When we arrived, we first we talked to the same two clerks who sold me the quilt; but one of the explained that even after she saw my bank statement there was nothing that she could do as I didn’t have a proof of purchase. I escalated the situation and spoke to the manager, Yalda if I am not mistaken. From the beginning her attitude was demeaning and condescending, she profoundly refused to either exchange or return the quilt. She stated that she believed that we had washed the quilt, because they don’t sell damaged merchandise. I repeated time and time again that I did not wash the merchandise, and she flat out called me a liar. She began to raise her voice, got frustrated and threatened us to call security to have us removed from the store. This woman was ready to have my disabled mother and I escorted out of Dillards because we wanted to exchange damaged/defective merchandise. Later on, at one point she mocked me by saying, “but you a doctor and can buy another quilt!”. After she realised that her intimidation tactics did not work, she decided to talk to customer service and I received a gift for only $86.60 out of the $124 that I had initially paid. Some credit is better than nothing, I thought. I am appalled of such discriminating customer Service at Dillards; especially knowing that Hispanics make up 31% percent of the population.