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Horrible interaction in New Look

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lanbro · 23/01/2025 20:12

Just bought something in New Look, interaction at the till as follows:

Till operator: what's your email for your receipt?
Me: no thanks, I'd like a paper copy please
TO: it's a digital receipt
Me: I know, but I'd prefer a paper copy please
TO: what, you don't have an email address?!
Me: of course, but I'd like a paper copy
TO: fine, it'll take a minute. Why don't you want to give me your email?
Me: I get 100s of spam emails, I don't need anymore thanks
TO: OK, no need to get angry!
Me: I'm not angry but I'm cross that you're being so persistent when I said I didn't want to (may have sounded louder than intended)
TO: don't speak to me like that! That's it I've had enough, don't talk to me!

I said fine, I'd talk to the manager, who happened to just approach the till area. Clearly backed her staff up, unsurprisingly, TO denied the part of the conversation where she'd incredulously enquired about me even having an email, and tried to withhold my paper receipt. I just stated to please give me my receipt but I was furious! Customer service non existent. I understand why they want to send receipts but me saying no should have been accepted surely, and not pushed on me, in a snotty manner

Both TO and manager late teens/early 20s, probably working for NW on not much above so I wouldn't take it further but it's really annoyed me!

YABU she was just trying to do her job
YANBU Terrible customer service

OP posts:
Differentstarts · 23/01/2025 23:54

JandamiHash · 23/01/2025 23:52

This is brilliant!!

Is it 🙄

JandamiHash · 23/01/2025 23:52

Potsofpetals · 23/01/2025 20:35

I’ve set up an email address for receipts with a rude address about their practices. I don’t give a shit if they think I’m childish. It sends the right message

This is brilliant!!

JandamiHash · 23/01/2025 23:52

New Look are unbearable for this.

Differentstarts · 23/01/2025 23:50

CeeCee2022 · 23/01/2025 23:24

I was told that New look are going totally digital and not going to give out paper receipts anymore. They got very annoyed with me when I told them no sorry I didn't want them tracking my purchases and my email was none of their business and requested my paper receipt!! I seen in a paper their shutting stores and from their attitude towards people it's no wonder, puts you off shopping with them.

You said to a shop assistant that they was tracking your purchases. You do realise shop assistants have zero say in anything right

Notgivenuphope · 23/01/2025 23:48

dreadful conduct. you won't get an answer but I would email head office. it should have ended with 'paper copy please'

TeabySea · 23/01/2025 23:44

I just say I don't have email. So far, it's all been okay. Not sure what I'll do if I go to a shop and they say they don't do paper receipts. Probably not shop there again.

Cunningfungus · 23/01/2025 23:42

Knowitall69 · 23/01/2025 23:39

You're.

Too-shay

StressedLP1 · 23/01/2025 23:41

I’ve stopped shopping at Argos for similar reasons - if you need to return something they don’t give you any physical receipt at the point of return but say it will be emailed to you. No thanks, don’t want to take a risk on that proof of return being lost in the ether thanks very much.

PassingStranger · 23/01/2025 23:40

lovemycbf · 23/01/2025 21:08

Peacocks recently told me when I was exchanging an item unless I give them my email they couldn't do my exchange.
Bloody outrageous really I had no choice but to give it

I'd have said what about ppl who don't have an email address.

Knowitall69 · 23/01/2025 23:39

Cunningfungus · 23/01/2025 23:36

Just admit when your wrong lol

You're.

WellsAndThistles · 23/01/2025 23:38

DreamW3aver · 23/01/2025 21:06

What law says you have to give your email address to buy a TV. I bought one last year and I'm 99% sure I wouldn't have given my email address. Is that new?

My parents don't even have email addresses, does that mean they can't have a new TV

Its maybe changed but whenever I bought a TV in the past, I had to provide my details so TV licence folk could check up on me.

(Just Googled it and the law changed in 2013, guess my last TV purchased in a high street shop was before then!)

PowerTulle · 23/01/2025 23:37

I shop at NL and experience this every time. If you want a physical receipt and they say the tills don’t print receipts any more you can politely remind them of their legal duty to provide you proof of purchase. They can do this, you will suggest helpfully, by writing out a receipt on company headed paper, including all the details and date of purchase and they sign and get it countersigned by the manager. Unsurprisingly the printer on the till tends to spark into life again at this point.

It’s data harvesting and on the borderline of meeting gdpr regulations. Unfortunately big companies get away with pressuring their poor staff to make you give in, and they assume customers either won’t know their statutory rights or feel uncomfortable about asserting them.

Cunningfungus · 23/01/2025 23:36

Knowitall69 · 23/01/2025 22:32

Glad you are being pacific about it.

Just admit when your wrong lol

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 23/01/2025 23:30

CeeCee2022 · 23/01/2025 23:24

I was told that New look are going totally digital and not going to give out paper receipts anymore. They got very annoyed with me when I told them no sorry I didn't want them tracking my purchases and my email was none of their business and requested my paper receipt!! I seen in a paper their shutting stores and from their attitude towards people it's no wonder, puts you off shopping with them.

No wonder they've got stores closing down. I predict over the next two or three years they'll all shut down ... They're not even that cheap or any good anymore. And the staff are rude, obnoxious, and frankly bloody ridiculous. Good riddance to them when they do go!

PassingStranger · 23/01/2025 23:28

I'm not sure Dunelm can insist on having your email.

Just say you haven't got an email, they can't argue with that.

MatLeave · 23/01/2025 23:27

Yes, I've had similar from New Look. The staff are very persistent. I always tell them that I don't have a personal email address and they look at me like I'm an idiot. Fortunately, it's not one of my go to shops and certainly doesn't encourage me to return

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 23/01/2025 23:27

namechangetheworld · 23/01/2025 22:32

It's definitely relevant. Would the OP have thrown a tantrum over something as innocuous as an email address if it was her solicitor or doctor asking for one? Would she balls. She thought she would make a point of trying to show up the minimum wage kid behind the desk instead of simply saying "I don't have email" and ending the conversation there and then.

Edited

😂 Most bonkers post on the thread. Well done! 👏

SeaUrchinHat · 23/01/2025 23:27

Our New Look closed down and now I’ve remembered why I don’t miss it. While it’s understandable why companies are keen to reduce paper use (which is absolutely something to be encouraged), this non-flexible approach to dealing with customers is definitely becoming more common in the majority of larger shops. I have a huge fear that logical reasoning is not a skill that’s being learnt by a generation that has grown up with less face-to-face interaction (and therefore less ‘thinking on your feet’) than previous generations. Something is going wrong that’s for sure and none of us are benefiting from it.

namechangetheworld · 23/01/2025 23:25

Coldanddamp · 23/01/2025 23:23

It's definitely relevant. Would the OP have thrown a tantrum over something as innocuous as an email address if it was her solicitor or doctor asking for one? Would she balls. She thought she would make a point of trying to show up the minimum wage kid behind the desk instead of simply saying "I don't have email" and ending the conversation there and then.

Gosh, it's terrifying that some can read the thread & this their takeaway. My cat has better comprehension skills...

Feel free to elaborate on exactly what I'm missing?

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 23/01/2025 23:25

YANBU @lanbro New Look are terrible for this. For this reason I have not shopped there in 6 years or so.

CeeCee2022 · 23/01/2025 23:24

I was told that New look are going totally digital and not going to give out paper receipts anymore. They got very annoyed with me when I told them no sorry I didn't want them tracking my purchases and my email was none of their business and requested my paper receipt!! I seen in a paper their shutting stores and from their attitude towards people it's no wonder, puts you off shopping with them.

Coldanddamp · 23/01/2025 23:23

It's definitely relevant. Would the OP have thrown a tantrum over something as innocuous as an email address if it was her solicitor or doctor asking for one? Would she balls. She thought she would make a point of trying to show up the minimum wage kid behind the desk instead of simply saying "I don't have email" and ending the conversation there and then.

Gosh, it's terrifying that some can read the thread & this their takeaway. My cat has better comprehension skills...

lifeonmars100 · 23/01/2025 23:16

namechangetheworld · 23/01/2025 22:32

It's definitely relevant. Would the OP have thrown a tantrum over something as innocuous as an email address if it was her solicitor or doctor asking for one? Would she balls. She thought she would make a point of trying to show up the minimum wage kid behind the desk instead of simply saying "I don't have email" and ending the conversation there and then.

Edited

i don't think a doctor or a solicitor would bombard your inbox with special offers, sales and Black Friday deals.

GoldGuide · 23/01/2025 23:10

lanbro · 23/01/2025 22:36

I didn't throw a tantrum😂 do you just do everything that's asked of you without question? I had a boundary, she was rudely persistent, I stood my ground. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it but in the moment, it made me cross! And yes, I would question anybody who was asking me for something unnecessary and refusing to take mo as an answer

I've seen a general trend of rudeness (or being less customer-centric) across retail these days. I've worked many retail jobs over the years.

I think it might be a generational thing where they're lacking the quality in training, or generally don't care, around being there to provide a (pleasurable) service to customers.

Of course, these kinds of interactions also don't help against the increasing prevalence of self service checkouts where unnecessarily rude encounter at the till can be avoided entirely.