Nordstrom Rack

I ordered a stunning dress from Nordstrom Rack for an event. A few days before the event (as I am waiting on the dress to arrive) I received an email that they did not have enough of the dress in stock and that I would not be getting it. I appreciated the refund but now I am out of a dress and the event is in three days. I would have liked to have known sooner– or for Nordstrom Rack not to sell a dress they don’t have.

I had a horrible experience at this Nordstrom Rack. I will say I have never had a bad experience prior, but I also was not a Unilocal participant then.
My girlfriend and I did a serious day of shopping and decided to head over to the rack as well… because we can’t pass up the opportunity to spend more money. I think I had close to 30 pieces going into the fitting room. My girlfriend and I were told that we could use the «sharing» fitting room since we were together. This was great. We are getting dressed in the same room, and can quickly give out yes’s and nos for the approval of our try ons.
15 minutes in we are close to being finished when a woman walks in. I grab something quickly to cover up my naked body. My friend and I both apologized and let her know this room was in use. The fitting room attendant then comes and pulls back the curtain (yes…I’m still unclothed) and proceeds to explain to me that the «sharing» room is for all customers. I ask her to close the curtain. I am mortified that I have a customer screaming at me asking me do I not know what «sharing» means, and an attendant now telling me that it’s for everyone. I think I asked her to close the curtain 4 to 5 times. Understand that I am now exposed to everyone who is walking into the fitting room.
I was furious. Humiliated. Disgusted. I took all my items out after clothing and explained to the attendant that she should explain to people that this is a sharing fitting room for all customers. I was under the assumption that I was allowed to use it because I was sharing with my friend. Had I known, I would not have used that fitting room because I was not comfortable with that. She rolled her eyes and said okay. I then asked to speak with a manager and her manager was right next to her. This woman looked like she hated her job and could care a less about my complaint.
The customer who was yelling overheard my frustration and apologized once she realized I was never informed that this was a community fitting room. She then understood my shock, and unhappiness.
I would have possibly felt better if the manager acted like she cared, but she didn’t.

It feels like it goes without saying that any time you can get a great price on something that is ordinarily expensive is quite obvious — but I like Nordstrom Rack compared to outlet stores because this stuff isn’t a completely different line than you’ll find in store. We’ve had great success here with men’s dress apparel (dress shirts, Tommy John undershirts, socks) and I personally favor the handbag and accessory sections. I found the perfect Kate Spade handbag for 50% off what I would have paid in store. The line can get long on the weekends but they do a good job of opening makeshift registers to help get it moving quickly.

Pleasure to shop here. Mostly i shop at nordstrom but i went here to get things that were sold out. And it was such a bargain. The staff was so sweet and i ended up buying some outfits for lounging around at home and home goods for gifts. I love this place. I would definitely recommend it.

My wife likes to come here a lot to buy us dress attire for dinner parties and family events. My impression is that Nordstroms seems to have a little something for everyone, whether your looking for nice dress attire or just a casual t-​shirt for every day use. I’ve gotten a couple pairs of shoes here in the past and they have lasted me quite a while and remain comfortable on my feet. Most of the clothing is good quality, but I can’t really comment on the women’s section for obvious reasons.
Although I don’t like shopping at all, I honestly don’t mind coming here with my wife. It’s clean, the staff is helpful, and they have clothing styles that I actually like.

This place is huge. Large selection of sunglasses here and from time to time they carry brand jeans like Burberry. The shoes are plenty. Rows and rows of it. It’s sweater season right now so lots of vests, coats, scarves and winter gear. I just bought a few things for the kids. Happy shopper.

Shopping isn’t what it used to be. Between shopping for my husband and child, I feel like it is more of an audacious chore… but when you need certain things like bras and feel like Victoria’s Secret isn’t cutting it anymore… where else do you turn? I figured this was one of my last options. Shockingly though I was able to find a nude bra in my size for like $ 30 (originally priced for $ 70) and that is more than enough to sell me on a great store. Good stuff!

Confession: I do about 90% of my shopping online, and I love it that way. I do not heart malls — even upscale ones. But I was in need of a sport jacket and something like that is hard to buy online because a lot of the Euro brands are cut quite differently.
So at lunch, I ventured over to Nordstrom Rack at KoP Mall. It’s in it’s own separate building, with a nice big parking lot, so I did not have to park in the next county and walk through the mall. Woohoo!
With Nordstroms, even their outlet stores are stocked with quality merch, and the salespeople are well trained and efficient. They had a nice selection of shirts, ties, pants, jackets, suits, etc. all in my size — thank you very much. And I did not have to go through a TSA pat-​down before entering the dressing rooms. A tailor is on premises 4 days a week (nice), if you need that.
I have noticed that some outlet stores seem to have merchandise that is lower quality than the regular brand full-​price shops (Ralph Lauren, are you listening?). That doesn’t seem to be the case at Nordstroms — another amazing Seattle based company. Okay, so NR prices are not super cheap, but at least the goods you get are of high quality, and I do think they offer an excellent value. Hey, if you want $ 20 pants, go to Target dude.
So for upscale clothing at not too upscale prices, Nordstrom Rack gets «two snaps and a twist» from me.

Love this store! This was my first trip back in over a year and I was very pleasant greeted by the plethora of perky-​toe shoes, Marc Jacobs bags, and Paige jeans — all at great prices. While I did not purchase any of those aforementioned items, I did leave with a pair of beautiful black riding boots for less than what I would pay for a salad at Balthazar. Success is sweet!

I am a avid shoe collector and was very surprised when my girlfriend told me she thought they sold Nike shoes here so we decided to check it out. The had a ton of shoes and i even found a few expensive pairs of Nikes. I didn’t purchase anything because I «supposedly» have to many shoes (Says the GF). I definitely will be checking in here often to see the new stock.

I’m not a very compulsive buyer but I do not tend to be picky on shoes. The Nordstrom here does tend to have the better selection of shoes I’ve seen compared to most other places. It might be that I’m overthinking this but I do feel like they put in serous effort to select their designers because it’s a wide range of variety that you don’t really find elsewhere.

I plan to go back after only having been there once. Seems like there are a lot of great finds here. I saw shoes, and shoes and I am currently looking for shoes and shoes. I am looking for shows with excellent arch support, so my show journey begins…

I hate malls. There some sort of soul crushing, existential terror that comes from these temples of consumerism and auto-​centric sprawl. As a result, it takes a lot to get me anywhere near there.
Nordstrom Rack basically has one thing going for it that keeps bringing me back. They have a big selection of mens shoes in large sizes. Even dedicated shoe stores (cough DSW, cough) will rarely have more than a few mens styles in sizes above 13, but Nordstrom Rack has dozens.
Of course, the shoe section works a little weirdly. They only have the right shoes on display, you have to go to the «shoe mate» counter so a clerk can track down the twin, sometimes a 5+ minute process after they disappear into the back room. When you find what you want, they also forgo boxes.
The rest of the mens section is fairly disorganised, making it very hard to find specific sizes of coats or shirts. Pants did a little better, except as with most department stores, any size that could remotely be described as big or tall is hard to find.
But in the end, I found a new pair of work shoes, and survived the mall.

Get ready to spend mindless hours here. You will get lost in this store.
What is the over/​under for someone spending an hour just in the shoe section?
There are a lot of good finds, and you won’t feel guilty when you get to the register.
Service here is great. I can’t imagine what the shoe stockroom looks like. Kudos to the attendant who has to find the matching shoe.

You either get super lucky here, or you don’t. Regardless, if you are looking for shoes, THIS is the place to go! Some of them are marked down at least 80%, but most are 25−50% off retail (which can be pretty good, depending on what you’re looking for). I’ve gotten Cole Haan boots (two pairs, I am not ashamed to say), for $ 25 and $ 50 (leather, too!), shearling boots for $ 50, Stuart Weitzman sandals for $ 30, and Kate Spade heels for $ 40. You just have to put in the time to look, but it definitely matters what time of the year you go as well.
I haven’t really lucked out in terms of deals with the clothing, though. Regardless, this place is definitely worth a perusal!

Wow! Bad place to let loose a shopping addict! Jk… I’m totally fine…
I usually find a cute pair of shoes that I fall in love with… This time, it was a pair of red sandals by Kate spade and black sandals from Vera Wang, but they were the wrong size :(so cute though! Why do I have such big feet?! And there were lots of cute Kate spade handbags and dresses and blouses from BCBG. That’s what got me anyway…
I also noticed that the men’s section was pretty cool too… Lots of shirts and ties and shoes, etc, etc.
Definitely coming back! (Like everyday)

Nice place for sale stuff. But they don’t come down enough on the shoes when they send them out there. It’s the same as the sale in the regular store.
Great place to find handbags…

There’s a lot of hunting involved, but you can find some great deals at this store. My favorite section is the shoe section, but it can get a little crazy when its busy. Also, the check out lines are super intense during the holidays. Avoid the weekends, and try and get there early is possible. It’s definitely worth a stop if you are in KOP.

This location always has a nice selection of dresses, from max studio taylor dresses and suzi chin, if your crazy for dresses like I am, you will be sure to find some nice digs. They also keep a nice stock of handbags and accessories.
Suggestions: don’t’ come on weekends, the line goes all the way to ladies fitting room, and it can be annoying.
Best time to go is during the weekday, it seems like they get new stocked items on Tuesdays or Wednesdays for first picking!

I’d like to tell you a little story about a girl who was looking for some dress pants for a business casual dinner. She decided to try out Nordstrom Rack since she had a thing for designer clothes, but was not a fan of the high price tag they usually come with.
She looked in the juniors section and while BCBG and other designer labels littered the racks, she couldn’t find any in her size and/​or to her liking.
She made numerous trips to the dressing room to try different pants and shoes to check the length and eventually found one nice pair of dress pants and some chic black pumps to match.
Then while in line, she saw another girl with her friend who was having second thoughts about buying a bag, so they asked her ‘objective opinion’ while in line. She said she already thought the bag was hers; it just suited her so well. And it did.
She got her bag; I got my black BCBG pumps ($ 25.93 down from $ 89.95)and Kenneth Cole dress pants ($ 23.98, down from $ 79)
So everyone left fairly happy*; the end.
On a strictly informational note:
The racks of clothes are almost impossible to navigate, especially in the misses section. You may think you are looking at a rack with sizes from 0 – 6, but half of the rack contains size 16 slacks and 3X tops. So the marketing is not always accurate in helping you shop.
*I say fairly because the girl at the shoe counter was kind of standoffish. I asked for the box to my shoes and she informed me that they recycle them and don’t give them out. I just thought that was rather odd.