Petco Reviews Summary

Category: Pet store Brooklyn, New York

Address: 1610 Ave Y, Brooklyn, NY 11235, USA

Phone: +17187432147

Rating: 4.3
based on 214 reviews.

Staff and Service

Pros:

  • "The staff is quite friendly and qualified."
  • "Very helpful staff, too."
  • "Every worker I have encountered has been helpful, courteous, and works quickly."
  • "The employees are very nice and very helpful."
  • "All employees are very nice and helpful!!"
  • "The staff are so friendly and patient."
  • "Employees are always very nice and helpful."

Cons:

  • "This location is definitely understaffed."
  • "I hate the costumer survice."
  • "Very poor service. Their people is lazy and they talk more chilling with their customers for long."
  • "The employee who completed my transaction, Lauriano, did not want to answer my questions and he was offputting."
  • "The bad thing is the staff. Specially the man in the fish department, rude not helpful has no people skills."
  • "The staff seems to be rude and short and they are ALWAYS understaffed."
  • "Terrible and worst petco ever!!! honestly the workers are really unexperienced."

Store Layout and Cleanliness

Pros:

  • "The store is so clean and pretty!!! The atmosphere is super easy."
  • "This store is kept so nice and clean."
  • "A very clean, organized, and stock up Petco."
  • "Place is clean."

Cons:

  • "The retractable leashes are not in the isle with collars and regular leashes, you have to go to the register."
  • "I'm usually very satisfied with the store, however, recently it seems understaffed."
  • "Some are too busy talking among themselves in the aisles to offer their assistance."
  • "Finding someone for help takes a while and really annoying to have to go around asking for help."

Animal Care and Products

Pros:

  • "The store is really big and has lots of fish and rodents for sale including some really cute mini hamsters."
  • "They carry a decent variety of products but most are a little pricey."
  • "They are always ready with information for the stock they sell."
  • "The store has really knowledgeable and helpful staff."

Cons:

  • "Its a little sad seeing their fish and how some of their pets are kept."
  • "The staff could do a much better job taking care of the animals. Just walking around you see a bunch of dead and half dead fishes swimming in the tanks, dead bettas, and incredibly dirty water."
  • "This store sells sick animals, I’ve bought 8 neon tetras to a well established tank and 3 of them died within a few hours."
  • "The betta fish are kept in horrible conditions. Some are dead, some are kept in a dirty, soiled water."
  • "These birds are clearly sick and neglected."
  • "They treat animals as mere products and don’t have any morals."
  • "TERRIBLE SERVICE!! ALL THE MARINE FISH ARE INFESTED WITH ICH AND VELVET... THE STAFF HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT."

Pricing and Rewards

Pros:

  • "Kudos to Petco for the amazing rewards program they have."
  • "I went to petco and got a bargain on the cat litter almost 1/2 price."
  • "If you sign up for their coupons you will receive some often which helps out to minimize your Petco costs at times."

Cons:

  • "MOST TROUBLING OF ALL IS THE FOOD THEY HAVE IS CONSISTENTLY OUTDATED I HAD TO CHECK 6 DIFFERENT BAGS TO FIND ONE THAT WAS IN DATE."
  • "Each petco store makes their own prices. If this is a chain store how can they charge what they want?"
  • "Would this price gouging to the fullest!"
  • "Their service and timing has gotten progressively worse, while raising their prices to an obscene level."
  • "Awful serving the price they said 127$ for grooming then they charged from me 140$ and they didn’t cut accurately."

Additional Services

Pros:

  • "Groomer on-site is also great, and decently priced."
  • "The vets were very professional and friendly."
  • "Specifically rating the Vetco inside here. We had to take a visit to Dr. Tracy Hill for our kitten. She is so welcoming and kind."
  • "Dr Roth later come in with Eric to explain every aspect in detail again to make sure that we as a pet parent can have a better understanding of our pet."
  • "Excellent customer service and wonderful wellness exam with our dog Zoey!"

Cons:

  • "DO NOT GO THERE FOR AMAZON RETURNS."
  • "DO NOT VISIT THIS VET. SHE DOES NOT DOSE MEDICATION CORRECTLY OR TAKE AN ADEQUATE HISTORY."
  • "BE WARNED, while the grooming services performed have always been good and while they’re friendly, this location has OVERCHARGED me multiple times."
  • "Do not bring your pets to the groomer named Monica What she did to my dog is terrible and totally unacceptable."
  • "They cancelled my dogs spay appointment twice."

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