Whats your least favourite shop?

M&S food sections - colder than the Antarctic, and absurd prices (though the food is generally really good - I never buy it myself, but a friend does 😀😋)

Primark - the synthetic smell and mess makes me want to leave.

The Asda I go to isn't a bit like that Morrisons on the other hand is.

Asda, always so crusty and grotty and rather bleak.

B&Q makes me feel panicky- I think it’s because I feel hemmed in by the high shelving and lack of windows.

I've just Googled Trago Mills and it looks great! What's the problem there?

I remember some decades ago there was a physical branch of the Scotcade catalogue shop on Vicar Lane in Leeds. At the time I really didn't understand what the place was all about and why it was so tiny. Like Thrifty, it was one of those quaint shops my Mum liked. I wouldn't say it wasn't a favourite, it was just a rather peculiar place that to me had no obvious purpose.

My parents ordered a parcel to be delivered to a shop similar to this. There was a massive pile of parcels on the shop floor, on the customer side. So anyone could go in and if they recognise a shape and size of parcel and know contents are very valuable, they will steal them.

Now they order to collect from another shop but need to drive there as it’s 1.5 miles away

Well Sports Direct of course. I occasionally find myself in there for a football or swim shoes or something and end up composing angry letters to customer services in my head.

Plus the local shop where I sometimes have to pick up parcels and it’s a dingy, dusty, filthy and smelly little corner shop with nothing but alcohol and energy drinks and vapes. The bloke says not a word but sits behind his filthy plexiglass screen staring at his phone. The parcels seem to be kept on the floor under his feet. How do some people not even try to run a business?

The Range.
The dismay of seeing piles of pointless seasonal crap.
Had a One4All gift card from buying insurance. 95% of places under this scheme either don’t have a shop/restaurant nearby or have no interest in the contents of the retailer (online and physical).

I needed some pillows. So decided to use the gift card at The Range. OMG! Enter the store and see automated 6ft Santas, the 12ft blow up outdoor displays. Then Halloween teapots, Christmas mirrors, Christmas drink glasses, millions of Halloween decorations.

I just wanted to get my pillows and leave.

The Range - absolute dump, crates of unpacked stock always blocking the aisles, smells of BO, half of the stuff on the shelves doesn’t have prices, 14 days return policy and rude staff.

I do too. I've always put it down to all the seasonal tatt and the complete waste when it is dumped 6 weeks later.....

Yes I find the shop assistants pounce in Lush too @Sparklesandspandexgallore
Leave me alone. I’ll ask if I need help

Agree Sports Direct is vile. Our local one is dirty, dingy and all staff are grumpy.

I have to say Zara too. They are just so slow on the tills it's unreal. ALWAYS queues. I find the environment jarring and the lighting too bright. I feel instantly stressed in there.

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I don't know what it is, but when I go into our local Home Bargains I get so anxious. I don't know if it's the lighting, extra tall shelves that make me feel claustrophobic or what. It's so strange!

My God! That’s disgusting. Please please tell me you complained.

Any shop where all the customers in there appear to be experiencing their first day out in the world.

Agree on the music in JD, I feel like I’m stuck in a weird zone halfway between going shopping and half way between a night out.

Hard disagree on the merchandise in there though. Well, if you’re not into athleisure wear then you have a point.

Yes I might as well be shopping in a warehouse. I don't go in very often for that reason.

Totally came here to say this

I agree about Starbucks. I went into one for the first time last week (mainly for the loo) and it was awful. You needed a code for the toilet so I expected it to be well maintained. It wasn't! Filthy, no paper, no soap, litter everywhere. I won't go into a Starbucks again.

This makes me feel really mean, but tiny independent shops where the owner is right there in the shop, especially if they're selling products they've made. It makes me feel like I have to buy something, but if there's nothing I like, then walking out with them saying "Thanks" and having to awkwardly reply... noooo. I've seen in a few cities recently shops run by local art/craft collectives, which seems like a much more cost-effective, low-pressure alternative to individual owner-run shops.

Shops like M&S and Asda who have loads of sizes and lengths of jeans and jeggings but NEVER IN MY SIZE. They have every size except 12 regular so I end up having to buy an extra long and take them up which is a right pain. And naturally all jumbled up on the rail so you can't find anything.

There was a one-off key-cutting and sports trophy shop in my high street (in fact, there still is, but I think it's changed hands). The men in there were the rudest people I've ever encountered - and that's saying something. For a private business it was bizarre - you'd think they didn't want any customers.

I went in twice and then heard from other people that it was notorious for appalling treatment of customers.

I don't think it's justified when it's a chain shop (you should either do your job properly or be honest and leave) but I could understand it more if the staff felt no connection to the business themselves.

It became almost like that notorious Chinese restaurant in Chinatown (in London) where people queue up to experience the outrageous rudeness of the staff! 😀