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Zoro Reviews Summary

Positive Highlights

  • Zoro offers a wide range of tools, parts, and supplies for businesses.
  • The company provides free shipping on orders over $50.
  • Net 30 terms are available for business customers.

Negative Highlights

  • Customer service representatives are described as incompetent and unhelpful in resolving issues.
  • Orders split across warehouses may result in double billing on credit cards.
  • Some products arrive damaged or non-functional, with no troubleshooting support.
This summary is generated by AI, based on customer reviews from the past year

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Aug 30, 2025

One of the reasons I tried Zoro in this competitive market was because of their participation in the "Fuel Rewards" program. Sadly, these rewards have not come thru to-date.

Jan 7, 2026

I dealt with the 3 most incompetent persons within the Zoro customer service department concerning a Werner ladder that was delivered severely damaged as well as a second Werner ladder that was delivered severely damaged as well. 16 days from the day I placed my order and the only compensation offered was waiving the freight charges and a minuscule 10% off the ladder purchase price. As a customer for 15 years, this is how Zoro deals with a repeat customer who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars with their company! I requested a full refund and will be closing out my account!

Dec 7, 2025

If your order is split into separate shipments from separate warehouses, your credit card gets double billed as the full total, then each shipment, then finally they reverse the full total. When I called they told me that they had 10 days to reverse the full change. I told them they are violating their agreement with MasterCard and Visa. I have used PayPal with them in the past and PayPal does not allow these deceptive business practices, so I recommend avoiding them or using PayPal.

Aug 25, 2025

I used to use zoro everyday. Search now returns unusable results. I refuse to dig through 100s of results to find the one I want. Stop dumping trash into my search results.

Dec 13, 2025

Received product in good condition when I went to use it it did not work no help on line and no trouble shooting instruction on package

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New York
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First order, on time, as promised
December 6, 2020

I place my first order with them and I paid a good price (got a discount as a first time customer) and it was shipped in the time promised and arrived in good order. I have no complaints.

Date of experience: December 5, 2020
Michigan
1 review
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Horrible company, don't order anything
December 5, 2020

Ordered wed. Plus payed for two day air shipping, an won't get it till monday.so much for paying for faster shipping. Dont recommend to any one.

Date of experience: December 5, 2020
Illinois
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Unbelievable
November 24, 2020

I ordered a quart of paint and 4 days later recieved an email that my order was arriving that day. Sweet! But after checking the tracking number I realized that it was being shipped to an address in Pennsylvania. I live in Michigan! I called and they had no clue how that happened. She immediately placed a replacement order. Problem was there was none in stock. So I just received my refund email where I see they kept the $5.00 shipping fee. Ridiculous! I wish I would have read the reviews before my order

Date of experience: November 24, 2020
Texas
1 review
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Customer service
November 11, 2020

Got wrong part late, 1 hr on phn with 34 min wait, rude combative rep, no class to even comp shipping charges zilch.

Date of experience: November 11, 2020
New Jersey
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Worst customer service
November 11, 2020

11/04/2020 made a purchase of $700, an email was received for confirmation, 2 days after I received another email saying that the order was canceled due to incorrect pricing, called zoro right away to see options since I was really in need of the items and also chose to buy from them instead of another deal somewhere else... Their answer was that they were sorry... They didn't even try to make it right for me, I guess they don't really care for their customers.

Date of experience: November 11, 2020
Utah
1 review
0 helpful votes
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They wasted two months of my time stringing me along that I would receive the product, and I just found out the latest shipment was canceled. I better get my refund fast!

Date of experience: November 9, 2020
Georgia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Very fast to take your money, and completely useless when it comes to delivering what you pay for. They are lowlife Scammers who hide behind auto-replies and voicemail when contacted...

Date of experience: November 5, 2020
Maine
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I am NOT a contractor, so I don't order parts every week, but all 6 times I have ordered from Zoro I have been very satisfied with the entire experience. My latest order was for a small part to repair a 15 year old Toto toilet - I ordered at 2:00p on one day, and the part was on my doorstep at 10:00 the next morning! Super service and great prices, what more do your want?

Date of experience: October 17, 2020
District of Columbia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Returns: an imposible task.
October 2, 2020

Seriously, is taking me 3 months and I still have the item that weights more than 80 pounds. I purchased from Walmart and the item arrived cracked. Walmart said to contact Zoro. Unfortunately Zoro's customer service is terrible. No one answers and the answering system keeps you in line for hours. I'm not kidding hours. Zoro promise to send you an authorization to take your item to UPS but the doc is not the correct one. So Walmart and Zoro kept bouncing back and fort and don't forget that the item is heavy.

Date of experience: October 1, 2020
Missouri
1 review
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Misleading product description
September 28, 2020

I ordered a cordless chainsaw from zoro.com. The product description read charger and battery included. For some reason I received a shipment with 2 saws and no battery or charger. I called customer service and they emailed a shipping label to send back the second chainsaw and I was under the understanding that the charger and battery would be sent in another shipment. No charger or battery arrived so I called and surprise surprise Zoro was not sending a charger and battery as this was a bare tool, which I thought meant no bushings or some other tool feature. I told the rep that the product description said included charger and included battery but was told they agreed that was confusing but they wouldn't honor their product description. I will never buy another product from zoro.com, which I found is owned by Grainger. Just my warning to all. I have copies of ad and order to document. Joe P

Date of experience: September 28, 2020
South Dakota
1 review
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Refund from hell
September 25, 2020

Tried to return 2 orders that were not correct, they tried 3 times to send me the return order they said, she was rude never did work... Im done

Date of experience: September 25, 2020
Arizona
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Bad company
September 19, 2020

It's very bad company, they are not honest and offer in the photos what does not match the truth. His customer service is very bad. I bought a medium-sized stove with a gas hose and regulator, but I received a small stove without a hose, and I tried to contact customer service and sent more than one email to return the stove, but without any answer, I advise against dealing with this company. Advise not to deal with this company.

Date of experience: September 19, 2020
New York
1 review
5 helpful votes
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The website stated "In stock"
September 11, 2020

The website stated "In stock. Item ships from Zoro in 1 business day." This was the basis for my decision to purchase this part from Zoro.

I received no communication regarding a shipping delay of 8 days. I will not receive this part until almost 2 weeks after ordering. Furthermore, attempting to call customer service was futile.

Date of experience: September 11, 2020
Kansas
1 review
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Zoro is Great!
September 2, 2020

I have been using Zoro.com for several years. I have had a few problems, but Zoro customer services took great care of me. I order at least once a week, if not 2 or 3 times a week. I find many of the things I need in one place and save money!

Date of experience: September 2, 2020
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Perfection
August 26, 2020

I can only rate from my own experience but I ordered a 20' fiberglass ladder on Sunday (Monday business day) and already received it on Tuesday. I was a little worried because I didn't read the reviews until after I'd already ordered and I wasn't familiar with their shipping contractor. I also saw a "no recent order" status on the website and the tracking number supplied was always "not found" with the freight hauler. But all is well. I am beyond pleased with Zoro and will definitely give them my business again.

Date of experience: August 25, 2020
North Carolina
1 review
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Horrible customer service
August 21, 2020

I ordered two keys from Zoro and just received one plus an empty envelope. I emailed them immediately and they replied saying they would get back to me in two days, a week later with no response I called them and was on hold for over twenty minutes. I think that this is a Millinial corporation that has no respect for customer service. I will never order from them again.

Date of experience: August 21, 2020
GB
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Placed an order as their website was showing stocks. Called 07/08 to find out where the stocks were and was told "They'll be in early next week and you should have by Wednesday lunch tme". Wednesday comes and goes, and nothing arrives. We call again and are told "they've not been dispatched". I call back on 13th August at 11am and speak to a Helen who I leave my number with. At 4pm, having had no call back, I call again and am told "The stock that we received earlier in the week only covered some of the back orders, so you probably won't receive this for a while". What angers me the most is that I've been waiting all day for a call back and the second time I call, this new person is able to give a straight answer finally but why couldn't the person last week work this out. She even said she's spoken with dispatch and that I'd have the goods will be with you on Wednesday lunch time. Why did no one do the math to show "actually you won't have them because even though we have stock coming in, it's not enough to cover the orders that we've taken". I won't be using this company again as they lied to be about receiving the goods. I put it to the person I spoke to "if you were told something was coming and it didn't arrive, how would you feel", He agreed he feel let down and be angry. So this is me, let down and angry, waiting for a manager to call me back! I received a call back, evenutally from someone who clarified that the person that originally spoke to who said I would have the goods by the Wednesday had indeed lied to me, that no one had done the sums to see that there wasn't enough goods to fulfill my order. That Helen had lied to me, in telling me the goods were never received and that no one received their order. I put it to the "manger" who angry and let down I was and that surely they would feel the same way. They agreed! Alas, I have not used this company before and even though I would never use them again, they made no effort to compensate me for the inconvenience or deception. DO NOT BUY FROM THIS MISLEADING COMPANY THAT EMPLOYS LIARS! I cancelled the order in the end as there was nothing else that they could do.

Date of experience: August 17, 2020
Texas
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Terrible service
August 11, 2020

I ordered a safe from Walmart which was proxied through zoro. Delivery date comes and goes no item. Walmart and i reached out to their joke of a customer support system, neither of us got anyone from over there. We called and emailed. The order came to my town then magically disappeared. Its under my suspicion that zoro employees crooks who like to steal packages, change my mind zoro. I will avoid this company like the plague. Id give negative stars if i could.

Date of experience: August 11, 2020
Georgia
1 review
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Run Away
August 7, 2020

If you are looking for any type of customer service, this is not the company for you. I have tried to contact about my order and I have yet to speak to or get a reply from anyone at Zoro.com.

Anyway, I have learned a good lesson, I will check reviews before ordering from anyone.

Thank goodness my order was only $12.

Jim

Date of experience: August 7, 2020
Texas
1 review
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Absolutely horrible fruad
August 5, 2020

Said they would ship within 3 business days, 6 business days later, they said they have not shipped and i may it may not get a refund. Horrible customer service

Date of experience: August 5, 2020

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Business History

  • (855) 289-9676
  • Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • Founded in 2010