Kayla Schneider

Review of Kohl's Department Stores

This review is due to a single experience that we ...

This review is due to a single experience that we had shopping at this location today, and I felt like I needed to write it to warn any other parents who might be shopping at this location with their children. We took our kids in to see Santa today, and afterwards we needed to pick up a few items. While we were near the children s section, an employee came up to us and our 2-1/2 year old daughter, and commented about the robots we were standing by. She asked our daughter if she liked the robots, and then said Let me see if I can try and get you one. My husband and I thought this was odd, but maybe they were doing some sort of giveaway drawing or something you had to sign up for, so we didn t say anything, and then our daughter didn t respond, so then the employee asked our daughter, do you like Frozen? , which of course our daughter loves, and then the employee said, do you want a doll? Let me show you these over here and proceeded to take us to a nearby Frozen doll display area. My husband and I looked at each other wondering if they were giving away free dolls or something? She then kneeled down next to our daughter, showing her the different Elsa and Anna dolls, asking which one she wanted. Mind you, these were not free dolls, nor were they cheap. My daughter chose one of the Anna dolls and the employee smiled and quickly walked away, leaving us with a daughter who on a normal day would have been extremely excited expecting that she now owned this doll and was going to be taking it home. Luckily for us, we had just visited Santa, and she was excited over the free Play-Doh she had received from him, and we were able to distract her with that and put the doll back on the shelf. We were so shocked and couldn t believe it had actually happened, as it all happened fairly quickly, and didn t catch the employee s name. Some parents may not be able to afford random expensive toys for their children while out running errands, and employees tricking kids into wanting something as if it were free and then walking away made me sick to my stomach. It is a screwed up thing to do to a child.