The Range, Gateshead Reviews Summary

Category: Home goods store

Address: Gibside Way, Gateshead, NE11 9BT, United Kingdom

Phone: +441914605554

Rating: 4.2
based on 363 reviews.

Product Availability and Stock

Pros:

  • "Throughout the year there are great seasonal products for sale, all at very reasonable prices."
  • "The Range also stocks a vast array of pet products for all your needs."
  • "With some things they're always well stocked e.g. pillows, cushions and throws."
  • "Massive amount of stock."
  • "They had plenty of stock in and we found what we needed straight away."
  • "Always bright and clean."
  • "You can get all kinds of things from the range from a new bedroom to pet food it sells everything."

Cons:

  • "Other things have empty shelves e.g the entire half aisle of various light bulbs was missing about 80% of stock."
  • "Item that I wanted wasn't in stock at Gateshead so asked staff member to see if it was in another local store."
  • "Goods were not priced as per their shelf ticket. We paid £5 extra and argued that the centre should honour the original price."
  • "Only issue is pricing I bought a Buddha statue that was price marked at 7.99 but SEL read 9.99, I was charged 9.99."
  • "How Much This is alway the question you have to ask whilst in this shop. Nothing has prices on."
  • "Quite a few items on the shelves were damaged."
  • "The range has a habit of charging more at the tills than the prices advertised on the shelves."

Customer Service

Pros:

  • "Staff in here are way nicer than the Sunderland store!"
  • "The staff always seem busy but very friendly & helpful whenever I ask for help."
  • "The lady on the till that served us was very friendly and polite :) would visit again!"
  • "The staff when you find them are very helpful and will do what is needed to rectify finding a missing price."
  • "Great l staff in store who are friendly and helpful."
  • "The staff are normally very friendly, like today when the till staff apologize for our wait which was very kind of him."
  • "I find the staff to be knowledgeable, helpful and pleasant."

Cons:

  • "Not great, poor customer service."
  • "Sorry to say the staff I spoke to were no help what so ever."
  • "Some members of staff should work on their customer service as it's shocking... They have time for chats and messing about but no time for customers..."
  • "Susan didn't bother to engage with me."
  • "The customer service is appalling at the checkout, no 'hello' or similar and no 'bye' or 'thanks' after paying."
  • "Very poor customer service."
  • "The two women working there were as miserable as sin."

Store Layout and Environment

Pros:

  • "You can spend hours zig zagging through the aisles with absolutely a bit of everything in there."
  • "Love this shop! Lots of variety here."
  • "Large store with plenty of variety of goods."
  • "All the usual Range products but in a very large store. Can spend ages browsing."
  • "A large store full of household items, pictures, mirrors, wall clocks, bedding, curtains, furniture, gardening items, a large xmas section when we were there (November 2019), electrical items, also a cafe on site for when you are exhausted from shopping were you can take a pit stop."
  • "This must be one of the biggest Range's or is the biggest Range in the North East 👌"
  • "Huge shop with some fantastic ornaments and pictures which are very modern and creative."

Cons:

  • "It losses one star as in the summer it gets super hot thanks to the wall of mirrors and lack of air con/good air con."
  • "However it took us almost an hour to get out of the car park on a Friday afternoon in November due to traffic and the badly designed 'road system' in the car park."
  • "Absolutely diabolical queuing system in place."
  • "Only one checkout open with very slow receipt machine."
  • "Been today and was shocked and disappointed at how cramped the Christmas section is."
  • "Very difficult to negotiate the store with a buggy, due to over-stocked shelves and floor."
  • "It's got a huge 'Range' but I find the layout of this store cramped and difficult to navigate."

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