Big 5 Sporting Goods

James Lauer

Friendly staff and always has something I want on sale.

Gale Luff

Terrible customer service. Even though they're 2 employees 10 ft from me nobody offered any help.

Rick Wilson

I have always been treated promptly and friendly. They ask if you need help as you walk in. The prices are a little higher but most of it's quality merchandise.

John McEntyre

We shop here for most of our kiddos sports equipment every season. Each time, we hope the experience will be different because going to Olympia is both far away and typically more expensive. Every time, every season we are challenged with not just bad customer service, it’s absolutely horrible. This time, the straw that broke the camel’s back and reason for me finally getting frustrated enough to post a review, we were shopping for soccer gear. I had to go to the front counter and ask three times for help because the pricing of items was very misleading. This seems to be a theme frankly, we had a similar issue during baseball and football too. They have a sale price listed and countless items stocked on that shelf but tell you at the counter that it is full priced. Total bait and switch and it’s just plain wrong. When I expressed my concern about to the manager, Yolanda, she jumped into berating us (kids and all) to “inform” that it isn’t their job to make sure they are stocked right or that the pricing is correct (really?? Isn’t that EXACTLY what your job is?) We are the ones that need to be more educated in her eyes. You can’t make this stuff up. This is also very hard to do when there were no prices on many of the items we were looking at other than the sale sign. This was the reason we asked for assistance in the first place while in the aisle so many times to try and understand the utter insanity of their stocking setup. When we did get “help” 20 mins later an employee named Heather also yelled at my kids and I stating she had been there the whole time and that we need not have waited; we tried in a dozen shoes and no one was present. It’s a very small area, we’d have noticed her ;) Anyway, moral of the story is that we will no longer be returning. Don’t care if it costs more, we’ll go to Oly. If anyone of consequence in management or leadership reads this please note this, we have heard the same thing from other team parents that share the same experience. Something there just isn’t right and it has to be a company or local store culture thing to be this far reaching and long lasting. Consumers are getting smarter and not willing to put up with poor service, bait and switch, and plain mean people. Do something about it please!