Gabriela
Somewhere,#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Sun, January 25, 2009
I worked at Macy's Federated over 10 years. On the back of our coupons are exclusions. 99.99% of the time they are the exact same exclusions from sale to sale, from year to year. Everyday Values, Coach, Dooney and Bourke, Mens' Polo, Tommy Hilfiger and etc. Without fail, numerous people would constantly try to use the promotions or coupons on excluded items. I would literally have to turn the card over and point it out to them. The manager probably had the conversation several times that day but she shouldn't have acted as though you were a pauper. That was not necessary. To redeem the discount, the purchase before tax had to be equal to or more than the discount. If that were not the case, then people would come in and buy something that was $4.00 and demand for us to give them $6.00 back in change. Anything that ends in .98 is an everyday value. Usually, they have special advertisement signs that would be displayed on the rack or table with the garments. They also have bigger sale posters that have the everyday value item on it and the price. It actually has the phrase and the exclusion on it. I left Macys 2 years plus ago and I distinctly remember the words Everday Value being on the tag. They could have removed it but I doubt it. This is not bait and switch.