BoxLunch: Pop Culture Gifts 12+

I’ve been shopping with BL for almost a decade now. I’m a loyal customer and I’m well acquainted with the employees at my local store and go in monthly, sometimes more. So I’m not just complaining to complain here.

That said this app is incredibly buggy. I can’t add things to my cart, I get an error message, and even before that started happening, I couldn’t purchase things even tho all information is correct and every space is filled.

Can ya’ll please look into this? I love shopping with you guys and would love to give you five stars but unfortunately I knocked one off since I can’t even shop using the app anymore.

BoxLunch technology is very poor and they struggle to combine various shopping channels to create a positive online shopping experience for their best clients. Whether shopping thru the the app, online store, or in a physical store they cannot correctly combine your accounts and credit your shipping and/or reward points. The system doesn’t credit points always correctly, and when you call, sometimes they know how to fix it and other reps have no idea. The system may check you out as a guest even though you are a five star member. You then have to wait an hour after placing and order before you call customer service to fix the shipping cost. When you finally can call you’ll be waiting as they call all their teams and team members to ask “are we supposed to fix this?” Once you get your points you then have to explain you are five Star and t should be 1.25 points and get ready to wait and escalate. You’ll have wait even more when you ask for a supervisor to fix it...so it it worth a stressful experience for every order placed? And then spend an extra 30 minutes per order to save a little money while feeling this is this biggest waste of time, emotion, and drama per order? You decide.

While I love visiting these stores at malls, their app and site leave a lot to be desired. Being reminded multiple times by the notifications, they wanted me to spend my box money before it expired. I thought “great, there’s plenty of amazing items they have to offer”.

However in navigating the app, I came to find that there are multiple problems. You can’t use your box lunch money to save on some of the nicer quality anime figures, most of their items are sold out 24/7 online or don’t ship, and lastly the other majority has you pick up items in store.

With these stores being located in malls, this is a lot to ask. It’s a long drive from where I am and out of the way with work on the weekdays. I imagine many are in similar situations. So this led me to ask, what’s the point of box money, if I can’t even use it on most of the offerings this store has? It makes me discouraged if anything, to spend more money in the store, when I know the money I get back is basically useless.