Rachel H.
Yelp
If I would have reviewed Good Eggs a month ago, I would have scored them higher, after using them for several months for specialty grocery shopping without incident. I considered them a reliable supplier of groceries and locally produced meal kits. I encouraged my family this would be a good Thanksgiving option for our smaller needs this year.
But I write this on the day before Thanksgiving, arguably one of the most important meals of the year for our family. A delivery that was supposed to arrive at 10 am today, and has most of our key ingredients, including our turkey and pumpkin pie, is MIA as of 7 pm, but what is most upsetting is that the customer service communication at Good Eggs is absent. Clearly, this issue is impacting many customers, because their outgoing phone message (no humans, only answering machines) is indicating long delays, but then the phone is disconnected and we were hung up on, without any additional support.
Phone messages were not responded to, and in trying to call Good Eggs back, we were led through a series of prompts before ultimately being disconnected again. Our many emails sent throughout the day received canned responses "please have patience" without real information as to whether items may arrive before Thanksgiving, or after. Our texts (they encourage customers to text or email customer service) were not responded to. In short, no communication. Radio silence or canned non-meaningful responses. Its not acceptable that there's no one, no actual human who is customer facing, answering the phone from the Good Eggs team during this widespread Turkey Day issue that impacted countless customers.
2020 has taught us many things. Certainly it taught us to have patience and gratitude and to accept that not all things will go to plan. And we've learned that we will survive it. That it will be mostly okay. But on a year such as this, selecting Good Eggs on Thanksgiving turned out for my family, and many others, to be just another one of those 2020 stressors we didn't need.
Update: Our order (missing some items) arrived in the past 10 to 15 minutes (around 8 pm) without any communication prior, and about eight hours after expected arrival. While we lost a day of prep time, at least most items got here before Thanksgiving. Still there is much to improve in terms of the supply chain and customer communication. We were sad to hear (through local NBC Bay Area News) that many other Good Eggs customers were not as lucky, when watching 'Where Is the Turkey We Ordered?' Local Delivery Service Fails to Drop Off Thanksgiving Orders."
Good Eggs, this year, turned out to be a bit of a turkey.