Whats your least favourite shop?

Iceland. Horrible, crap quality products. Poor range of everything but frozen foods. Not even particularly cheap. Ghastly shops. I have no idea how they stay in business.

Co-op. Inferior to Tesco Express & Sainsbury’s Local in every way, and far more expensive. The one thing in their favour is that they are ubiquitous in my part of the country (East Midlands) so I do sometimes shop there for convenience, but only if there isn’t a choice.

Low ceilings for me. All our local Morrisons feel uber oppressive and I also hate going in them.

But you have self service tills! We all have to queue behind people with 14506 items and refuse to let you ahead when you have a pack of mushrooms and some cheese coleslaw.

Love both Lewis and Waitrose, so civilised

My local Morrison's. It starts with the car park, dirty and littered with overgrown bushes. Inside is really grubby, it looks like the floor hasn't been cleaned properly. The self service tills are filthy. Surly staff, the people on the deli look like they're doing you a favour. I've stopped going there as I'd rather travel to the other side of town to a different supermarket.

Places which focus on make up and “beauty”. Dull as ditchwater.

Littlewoods was such a soulless place. Bland, stuffy, pale grey and blue everywhere. Hardly surprising it failed although I expect there were other reasons besides. It never seemed to change with the times and try to improve its image. The Index catalogue shops were OK though. Thrifty was dowdy polyester central. My Mum would insist on going there every time we went into town - beats me why.

Those of you oop north and in Scotland may remember Tip-Top, a kind of second grade Superdrug. The branches I used to go in - not by choice - both had the same lurid green-yellow carpet and strong chemical stench. Horrible shop.

🤣🤣 64,678 steps and counting.

TK Maxx - like a jumble sale.

Love a Range/Home bargains trip, although the latter is hit and miss product wise depending on location of store.

Not keen on TK MAXX...
clothing is a bit jumble sale ish....a mish mash of stuff that's all shoved on rails.

Card Factory where I live. You cannot go past anyone as aisles are narrower than a pushchair. It surely must fail fire safety. Yet a retail park, has a large one where you can (if you could) do the can can kicks in the aisles

Lush. I like their products, but I dislike their politics and their pushy staff.

Tesco, because of that ad of Santa waving his vaxpass. Popularised tyranny.

God yeah Screwfix & Halfords. So dull.

I despise TK Maxx. I like the house stuff but I can’t be doing with the rest of it.
I also hate H&M. There’s never anything in it. So messy and chaotic.

B&M as their only checkout open is the one in the kiosk and some of their kiosks tills don’t have a scanning gun. So if buy anything large, the staff have to manually enter the barcode.

Primark - glorified jumble sale. Staff spend ages folding clothes to be unfolded, chucked onto the floor etc later

Aldi - do they have any staff that pick up cardboard off the floor and displays? My friend works for another supermarket and clearing the cardboard shelf ready packaging (SRP) plus the plastic trays that big pots of yoghurt is something they do constantly. The other day I went past the baked beans and counted 20 cardboard trays which were empty! Also the mixed cases of pop and squash is going to result in someone injured. As customers pick a flavour which isn’t on the top level so take one from underneath. Result 20 bottles underneath 50 bottles.

Urban Outfitters - daughter loves it but I feel like I’m in a jumble sale and get confused.

WHSmith - it’s like they have the lights on the dimmest possible setting.

Aldi - I just can’t get on with it at all. Team Lidl.

I also used to despise being dragged round Littlewoods as a child! For some reason it was uniquely depressing. I also hated it when we had to go in BHS.

Another now defunct chain that used to depress me as a kid: Bejam. Endless aisles of chest freezers. Trailing round after my parents as they stocked up on frozen burgers and bulk packs of coley fillets.

You should try the new one at Oxford Circus - it is all underground - I dread to think what the fire risk assessment looks like.....

The staff in my local Waitrose are really nice and friendly. It's a small store though, and in a small town, so they sort of get to know you if you're in there regularly.

We don't have a Lidl, but in the local Aldi they all seem stressed and under pressure. My hairdresser's husband is the manager there, and she reckons it's because he's probably a bastard to work for!

Currys customer service is a fucking disgrace. In the last year I have had to take them to small claims court for a faulty tv, and do a charge back on my credit card for an item i never received. I wouldn't shop with them now even if their stuff was free, too much hassle.

Morrison’s. I can’t even fully articulate why I hate it, but for some reason I find it really depressing. It’s not some kind of snobby thing, either - I get endless joy from Aldi, Home Bargains and umpteen other cheap discount stores. I just really hate Morrison’s.

ZARA. The quality went downhill years ago, and now they push their bloody app on everyone WHICH I AM NOT DOWNLOADING!!!

Sports direct - I don’t like the layout and avoid it as much as I can

I think there is only 1 in the country. It’s not worth driving to, I promise!!