Mar 092009
Remember when I used to usher in the new week by spewing forth vitrol regarding everything in the world that was pissing me off? Yeah, I’m doing that again this week. Cuz I realized yesterday that I have a lot of Hate. And it’s gotta be shared with the internet.
- The Children’s Place. We’ve spent a lot of money at this store. Shoot, most of Harry’s wardrobe is made up of clothes from Children’s Place. Cute clothes at reasonable prices. Their sales were discount GOLD, people. We loved it so much we got a store charge card. We don’t do that, like, ANYWHERE. We don’t do credit cards. So to get one for Children’s Place was a testament to how much we liked shopping there. I was looking forward to getting to get some of their utterly adorable girly clothes that had taunted me for years. This brings me to last week when for whatever stupid reason, they canceled our credit account. Why? We made our payments on time. We hadn’t paid much debt down but there wasn’t that much on there to begin with so big deal, right? We paid every month. We pumped a lot of money in. And they cancelled our account. The only reason given? They checked our credit score and didn’t like it. I don’t like it either, don’t get me wrong. But shouldn’t our account history with the company take precedence? Should it matter WHAT our credit score is as long as we’re paying our bills? WTF, yo?? Let it be known this card was handled by Shittybank er Citibank. It’s truly a shame because I enjoyed shopping there. But apparently in this trying economy OUR MONEY isn’t good enough. They want AAA+ credit score customers only. Whatever. I’ll get my kids clothes elsewhere.
- Old Navy. SERIOUSLY. What is WITH these stores?? Do they not want to keep customers? Is the pressure of ending up like Circuit City too much for them and they freakin’ fall apart? We stopped in there yesterday for shits and giggles and browsed their sales. They had a lot of cute stuff that was awesomely discounted. I saw some toddler pajamas that were marked down from $14.50 to $4.50. SCORE! I showed Kile a pair (that had a discount sticker on them) and offered to use my PayPal funds to buy them. He didn’t seem enthused so I put them back. I did some more shopping and Kile apparently went back to look at the pajamas again. He picked a pair that had monkeys on them (because Liam IS a monkey) but (gasp) it didn’t have a sticker on it. Shouldn’t matter. EVERY other pair had a sticker. Shoot, Kile even saw another package of monkey jammies that had a sticker on them. He figured the sticker fell off this one and tossed it in the cart. Meanwhile, I found some totally cute long sleeved shirts that were originally $15 and were marked down to $4. I need long sleeved shirts like you wouldn’t believe so I grabed two. On was a purple stripe and another was a turquoise. Pretty! We went to check out and the jammies rung up as being $10. There was much hubub as we tried to explain ourselves and the cashier called back to a manager who said, “Nope, monkey jammies aren’t clearanced. They’re $10.” Well forget it! Cripes! We paid for the shirts and left. I get home and I realize that one shirt was $9 instead of $4. Turns out? It was marked on it’s sticker as $9 but in the hubub over the stupid pajamas I missed it. Now I’m cheesed off and am tempted to just return both the shirts and give Old Navy the bird. How hard is it to SEPARATE clearance items? HOW? Can someone tell me? Is it harder than moving the clearance stuff to ONE table and the regular or just plain sale stuff to another? Surely it must be because otherwise they would have done that, right? RIGHT?
- People who run over Girl Scounts.
- That I was unable to get the yarn I really really really wanted this morning cuz I’m ze broke.
- That it took me FIVE tries to cast on the waistband of the pair of shorties I started last night. I swear to GOD, I lost the ability to count somewhere there for a minute and I was about ready to toss the whole thing out the window.
- When dear friends lose their pregnancies. That just sucks all around.
- When dear friends are losing their parents. That sucks all around too.
- Rush Limbaugh.
That is all. For now.
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WTF? They canceled your card? Can they do that? Wow. They suck.
I hate punitive checkers at stores like Old Navy. 80% of the time there IS something that can be done but they just.don’t.want.to.make.the.effort. (To show I am not picking on retail workers, um, been there and done that on my bitchier days. It took a LOT for me to be that uncooperative, though. )
And?
I used to listen to my husband listening to Rush Limbaugh every freaking morning until I thought I would die. It’s better now that it is Glen Beck. I don’t agree with everything he says but his personality is WAAAAAY better than that pompous man.
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I agree with the whole Old Navy debacle. I’ve taken to carrying the same item (possibly a different size) with the clearance sticker on it along with one that doesn’t have a sticker on it. Sometimes it works, occasionally not so much.
And as to the Children’s Place, I can’t believe they just cancelled it!! I’ve been having fits about Sam’s Club reducing my credit limit every 3 months or so to $5 about my balance. I’m trying not to use it so I can get it paid down some, and they are dropping my limit. I was going to try to pay off a big chunk of it with my tax refund, but not any more! They would probably cancelled the damn thing on me with my luck! Some weeks that is all I have to buy groceries with, and my kids need to eat!
Well Old Navy pisses me off on a regular basis anyway because their kids sizes run small. It might say 2T on it, but it’s not. That cute fleece Angela sent for Christmas? Elizabeth got to wear it ONCE (and that was mostly so we could say she wore it. It never really fit) because they LIE ABOUT THEIR SIZES!! Also, when they have their commercials with the way cute in season clothes that are supposed to be in the store now and on sale… um… not so much. I can never find them. Or if they are in the store as advertised, they’re only in like size zero or something.
Wow that sux. A very good friend of mine has a daughter who works at Old Navy. She is in danger of being fired because she can’t get enough customers to apply to their credit card, even though she asks every single person who comes through. Hmmm. I wonder why that is. I offered to apply for shits and giggles and just as i knew would happy I was refused, but at least that helped the girl…for THIS month.
blah! This is why i almost always every shop resale
I almost never buy anything new as far as clothes go – or I make them.
Even my over-the-top daughter gets resale designer clothes from Plato’s Closet – and she loves it.
Hope yer Tuesday gets getter hugss…
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Shouldn’t the Children’s Place have looked at your credit score BEFORE they gave you a card? weirdos.
Absolutely does suck about your account being cancelled. I agree, they should have checked your credit score before they even thought about giving you a store card – that’s their fault. I thought 2008 was a really bad year for people losing their parents – wasn’t a very fun year. Hope 2009 is better!!
as an old navy employee (who, trust me, hates that place probably even more than you do) i can tell you that in my store we do keep our regular/clearance items separated, but some customers have a penchant for deciding they don’t want an item and just putting it down wherever they feel like it. if you had brought the pajama set to me with the other that had the sticker, i would have given it to you at the lower price cause it’s our fault, but i guess it depends on the store. Also, with the economy being in the pits recently, ALL old navy’s are severely cutting hours and we almost never have enough people in the store to actually keep up with all the work, particularly the general clean-up as everyone is either at the registers, in the fitting room or assisting customers…we do try though! We just need more arms…