Whats your least favourite shop?

Sports direct. Stopped going in there 15 years ago when they refused a refund for some leggings that ripped on first use (I had other leggings in a smaller size so definitely not a size issue). Recently DH bought a holdall there out of desperation as DS needed it for a trip, the handle broke before he even got on the coach. Unfortunately by that point he had no choice but to continue using it, so not tried for a refund to see if they've improved.

A gift shop in one of those awful touristy restaurants like Bubba Gump or Hard Rock. Or the Disney shop.

I guess a second hand computer parts and electronic components retailer would be of zero interest to me.

TK Max - Feral weird customers.

Card Factory - Feral weird customers in a very confined space.

The Range - find it too busy. Too much stuff. Same for B and M.

Curry’s/PC World - in our local one, there’s always lots of staff huddled together, but they don’t want to want to come and help you.

Go Outdoors - Been in Two different stores recently, and one had excellent service, the other not so good.

B&Q purely because it is the most boring shop in the entire world.

I dislike both TK Maxx and The Range, both are like jumble sales when you go in, too much stuff and not much room to look at it..

I used to love The Range garden centre out the back but the lovely lady who used to do the plants must have retired because no one seems to water or look after the plants and shrubs as well as she did. I no longer go there for garden planting now.

Oh, I find the opposite where I live. Lidl, staff are the most miserable I've come across, they barely smile let alone say hello.

Waitrose are just the opposite, I love going in there, always friendly, polite and open another checkout the minute there are just two of you waiting. Nicest place to shop I've found.

Shops that sell white goods.
absolutely rubbish. horrible experience, crap staff. Yet we spend hundreds of pounds on products there that we use every day.
if I spend 2k on a handbag, I’d get champagne and a personal assistant in the shop. 2k on a fridge, I leave and cry in my car. Experience Designed by men obviously.

I love this so much, we had a lifetime family vendetta against a local cafe that had been super rude to me once, to be fair it only involved never going in there 😆

B&M is depressing, full of tat and stinks of overpowering washing powder and assorted unnecessary associated scent beads and whatnot

Quiz and New Look. Their clothes are so poorly made with tiny seam allowances, horrible man-made fibres, crap sizing. I think they're worse than Primark but at higher prices. A lot of high street stores meet this criteria to be honest. Only my opinion/experience obv, but there you are.

TK Max: jumble sale
Aldi: got to the door, turned around and left

Oh hell, yes! My local one is like an aircraft hangar full of clothes racks. I honestly don’t have the patience to spend an hour rummaging through it all to find the one item I might like, and which might actually fit. In fairness though, the cookware section is pretty good.

B&M. Though they sell some great stuff, I feel claustrophobic and trapped because there's no straightforward way in or out of those that I've been into.

I did. So annoying that that's all I could do.

Tk maxx, 🤑how can anyone be bothered with that jumble sale

I can’t even go within about 200 yards of a Lush store, the smell is horrendous! I don’t know how people can work in there, is no sense of smell on the job description!

I was about to say Zara! Like a jumble sale with massive queues. I've bought their clothes online and they're generally nice but the clothes in the shops just look so cheap and awful.

B&M. They never seem especially clean, and the lighting is dull in the ones near me so that adds to the dinginess.

Tesco and Sainsburys. I won't go in either. That nasty cheap, greasy, chicken smell from their 'rotisserie' chicken section makes me want to vomit.

The first time I smelt it, I had to swallow my own sick in the middle of the store. I was 8 months pregnant, and the smell overwhelmed me and it was either swallow it back down or spew up next to the scotch eggs. I thought it must be a pregnancy thing so I tried it again about a year later and nope - ended up nearly spewing everywhere.

It's a bloody rank smell that permeates throughout their shop. Even their bloody clothing sections smell like rancid, greasy, chicken.

Never been able to take Primark. Clothes just strewn all over the place and so humungously wasteful - they produce so many new lines that most of its going to go straight to landfill.

In fact I've stopped using any high street or online version thereof since watching 'Buy Now' on Netflix; the fast fashion industry is sending so much straight to landfill by producing way more new lines than anyone can buy. I stick to Vinted or occasionally spending more on smaller run fashion. Its interesting how I've totally lost interest in window shopping, which I used to enjoy, since doing this.

B&M! Never been in one that’s clean, doesn’t have fixtures/flooring/shelving coming away and just the atmosphere in them is depressing. Sorry I know they have a huge fan base but I detest them all

LUSH - never actually been in one, but the chemical warfare when you walk past the door is enough.

Agreed, I go into Lush from time to time to buy a specific product my mum likes. Feels like a gameshow having to get through the pushy sales people to get to the item I actually want to buy.

I agree. After being treated with indifference by a male staff member who then fawned over my DH as he was assumed to be more likely to spend money, and a female staff member who snapped at me to take the back off my phone myself ( bought from them) as she "didn't want to break her nails", I avoid phone shops if I possibly can.

I worked in retail for years and enjoyed interacting with customers and helping them. I get things have changed and conditions are worse, but if you hate the public, try to find something else to do!