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It won't allow me to go below 1. Or I would
My partner and I have a legal exemption to face coverings under Section 8(a) of MN EO 20-81, and since Menards is so discriminatory against this, I must pay extra to have orders brought to the back gate. However, on their website, there is no way to apply a business's tax-exempt code. So, we placed our order over the phone (and informed Mike of our mask exemption and that we would not be able to wear a mask) and were told by Mike that when we came to pick it up, we would need to come in to the desk at the back gate and show ID to prove identity with regard to the tax-exempt code. When we arrived we were directed by staff to go in to the back counter to talk to Mike.
Immediately upon arrival, Mike rudely and AGGRESSIVELY rushed us and demanded we put on a mask as he pulled masks from his pocket. Before we could even explain that we had just spoken to him on the phone and were instructed to come to the desk, he very hostily told us to leave and not return. He pretended that he had no idea what we were there for and acted like we had not JUST spoken on the phone.
We calmly told him why we were there and that we needed to get the items we paid for before we could leave. His next step was to call 911!
Within 45 seconds of being there, he had already called the police! Totally insane!
He then told us to walk through the store to the front, even though we weren't wearing masks, contradicting his own policy. To which we declined.
We were taken aback by his aggression and wildly offensive behavior and asked for the order so we could leave. He continued to escalate the situation so we asked for the name of his superior, which he refused to give. We told him we'd be in touch with corporate, that he just lost our business, and proceeded to leave. He became increasingly enraged.
But wait, it gets MUCH WORSE. As we were leaving, Mike rushed out after us, taking photos of our truck. He then ordered the nice girl at the gate to close and lock the gate to prevent us from leaving the property that he just told us to leave. HE LOCKED US IN! Along with a line of about 3 or 4 other vehicles trying to leave!
According to one of the 4 officers that eventually showed up, Mike apparently told them that we had threatened to break down the gate! Which we most certainly said no such thing. We are local business owners and wouldn't dream of conducting ourselves in such a way! Because of Mike's falsification of facts, the police sped in and approached us very aggressively until Menards realized it was just us.
Mike not only treated us terribly but put his employees and other customers in danger with his immature, aggressive, reckless behavior. Had Mike acted this way with someone half as crazy as him, or made fabricated claims of threats to trigger-happy police the way he lied to our local police (who, thankfully, are responsible officers) that situation could have ended very badly. I am still completely flabbergasted by the experience and blown away that Menards would find it acceptable to endanger the safety of employees and customers over discriminatory, pseudoscientific, logic-less policies.
As a result of this experience, Home Depot has just earned our $1500 expenditure for the supplies we came to Menards for. If this was my business, Mike would be terminated immediately. Many other contractors we work with have also had very poor things to say about Menards and Mike in particular, and say they shop elsewhere when possible. We will NEVER shop here again. Menards might want to get ahold of their unhinged and potentially dangerous manager, as more and more people continue to take their business out of town.
Boycott Menards. Give small, local hardware stores your business whenever possible.
Lastly, Menards in Chesterfield, MI received a cease to desist order for price gouging during the pandemic.
We ordered a 48 inch vanity through Menards on Feb. 1 from the company Magick Woods Elements Ashwell 48"Wx21"D Gray Bathroom Vanity Cabinet. It was supposed to be delivered Feb. 18. Feb. 18 came and went, and my husband called Menards every day after asking when it will be delivered. There was a point person who finally got in touch with Magick Woods only for them to tell us Menards would ship it March 10. This means it wasn't even assembled! March 10 came and still no vanity. We finally cancelled our order! Beware of Magick Woods Elements provided by Menards. Menards should hold the company's they source from, to standards. No customer should have their whole timeline skewed because a company Menards sells, doesn't bother to even make and send the product.
I'd summarize their service or lack thereof as "institutional indifference" combined with a lack of familiarity with products and service. Staff of Menards hardware, Hardware Associate Buyer, Menard, Inc. as well as Menards "guest services" is unwilling or unable to write a reply to written requests, form a response or simply acknowledge a written contact in a business-like fashion; i. E., indifference and simply unresponsiveness, either intentionally or innocently.
My dispute? Trying to get what I paid for, the product was shorted on contents, not all parts and pieces were included in my shelving unit. I started trying to get replacements 10 days ago but the supplier was and is the wrong supplier Menards referred me to and Menards has not answered me at all despite cc of 14 email exchanges with the supplier the wrong supplier and two hard copy letters to Eau Claire corporate offices.
"Save Big Money at Menards" is because Menards don't spend it on service representatives or customer service.
I'm a simple customer with a simple problem that Menards has botched so badly Menards picture should be next to the Urban Dictionary definition of FUBAR.
I finally called that night and they gave some bull story and tried to reschedule next week. I asked for some kind of discount for the inconvenience, like free delivery ($120) they gave nothing, did nothing, not even a sorry for the inconvenience!. So I cancelled the order and never used Menards again.
HOME DEPOT AND LOWES, pay a little extra for the service- it's worth it. Worst construction store I have ever gone to. I am a professional contractor and a master carpenter for over 20 years and have never experienced something like that, EVER.
Absolutely zero customer service. Just wow. Zero stars if I could.
Anyway, in the long run i drove 3 - 70 mile round trips which probably increased the total price! Not a good deal after all.
Several years ago i did buy some material at Menards when they offered 11% thinking i would save money but the 11% is only a coupon or check only good at Menards. That should have stopped me from going back but... NEVER again!
I gave 2 stars because the heater works nicely.
Then, we discovered that one of the legs is substantially shorter than the other three- so I have to get a carpenter to fix it. I wish I could rate them with minus stars. This is really the worst company I have ever purchased from.
Being a good red blooded american I exercised my freedom of choice and promptly left the store and went across the street to Home Depot. Not only did I find a door that met my needs but they were offering 15% off. Not the lame "We will give you 11% credit off your next purchase at menards" but an honest to goodness 15% off of my purchase. I got $500+ off of my $3000 dollar door bring it in at $2500... Add the tax and it is $2700 What a Deal.
Thank you Menards... if you wouldn't have had that bogus policy I probably would have purchased something from you and got a far worse deal.
This isn't my first encounter with Menards. As a general rule of thumb I only shop there as a last resort. My original run in with there customer service department was when they refused to refund me for a $3.14 cent 2x4 after just making a $10,000 purchase of lumber. They said it had already been returned. How I don't know because I had the receipt in hand and this was the first time I had been there since making the purchase to return anything. And if you wish to file a complaint there is no web based complaint division or anything. You download a form and hand fill it in and mail it to Menards at WeReallyDon'tCare Street. Somewhere in the US.
I remodeled my house and spent thousands of dollars at home improvement stores and honestly you cannot beat the service of your local Lowes or Home Depot. You may pay a little more but you get people that are helpful and stand behind their product,
Fast forward to Nov. 26th. I rented a trailer in Canada and drove back to Duluth on Nov. 25. When the receipt was presented at door #11 on Nov. 26th, you guessed it. NO snowblower. They had sold it and everyone of that model all area stores. How the heck does this happen when inventory is so carefully monitored by computer? They sold my machine, fully knowing that it had already been sold to me. Even after I went to all that trouble to get extra assurances that it was okay to pick it up past their policy timeframe.
It gets worse. I then asked to speak to the dept. manager, He told me that their policy was to hold prepaid merchandise for only 2 (that's TWO) weeks and that it didnt matter what his employee had told me. I then asked to speak to the store manager. He was completely unsypathetic to my plight, stating that it was store policy to hold such merchandise for only 1(you read that right, ONE) week. You must be kidding me. And of course, he didn't care at all that his employee/store representative and I had made an exemptive agreement. The same girl who had given me the guarantee that I wouldnt have any trouble getting my blower on Nov. 26 was present during my conversations with both managers. She readily admitted that she had told me it would be okay to do the pick up on the 26th. She also stated that she clearly remembered our conversation. But the store manager refused to stand behind his employee. Poor woman looked so embarassed, especially when the manager said he would "deal" with her later. I sure as heck wouldnt have rented that trailer and driven all the way down there if I hadn; t been guaranteed that the blower that was rightfully mine would be there. He tried to sell me a bigger blower with no offer of a discount or anythng for my trouble. He clearly was not interested in satisfying this customer. In fact. Every offer he made would have cost me more money but his store wouldn't be out one cent. What the heck kind of compromise is that?
I am putting this out there to warn people about the unscrupulous and confusing "policies"at the Menards store in Hermantown MN. The worst thing about the whole encounter was the blatant lack of caring shown by the store manager. He wasn't the least bit concerned about my problem, he refused to take any responsibility for the mistake. He hid behind "store policy" and tried to tell me that there was "nothing he could do" Store policy has no flexibility, his hands were tied. What a crock of... Any manager worth his salt would have bent over backwards to keep the customer happy. Especially one who had spent thousands and thousand of dollars at his store over the past few years. Not this schmuck. My advise? Shop elsewhere. There are plenty of good retailers who really WANT your business.
"Oh the SKU is wrong, oh that's in the wrong place, oh that sale ended two days ago," blah blah blah.
Honoring the price tag on a merchandise shelf used to be a sacred tradition/trust. If a tag was mismarked, the store ate the difference, then made the fix.
Menards OCD over "loss control" has apparently seeped into the customer purchase experience. Which means over ten years of "saving big money" has finally become too costly for this Menardite. Lowes and Home Depot, here I come (back).