In past years, I had wonderful experiences shopping t my local Michaels. This past week, I have wasted a lot of time and have been completely frustrated by my experience trying to buy some items at Michaels after I received an email announcing discounts. On Friday, 2 days ago, the on-line site, everything I wanted to buy at my closest Michaels store was not available. At the next closest store, which is a half hour from my home, I finally found some items that I wanted to buy, after most were not available at any store within 25 miles of me. I finally found two items that were availaable there, and ordered them for pick up.
Shortly after I placed the order, I received an email that one of the items was not in stock.
Yesterday an email arrived telling me that the other item in the order had been picked up. I did not pick it up. My plan was to pick it up on Monday. Just to make sure that I wasn't going to drive for half an hour and then to be told that the item was no longer there, I phoned that store this morning (Sunday). The staff member was unable to find any record of my order either by my name or by the order number. Furthermore, she told me that I should have an order number with letters, but the only order number in all of the emails I had received had only numbers, no letters. She then told me to call 1-800-Michaels. The agent there was not able to reach the store by phone to tell them that I had already paid for the item and should be able to just pick it up. At this point, the process became an impossible task, so he just cancelled my order.