Are there any stores or companies you refuse to shop from or deal with?

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As the thread title says - I have just decided to shop anywhere except a major high street electrical / computer company from now onwards after a couple of poor customer service issues. I shopped there from convenience, but I'm fed up with them now.
This got me thinking. I avoid any MLM, even though I really like some products I was given as a gift, and stores with poor ethics regarding production, worker treatment, etc.
Do you have any you actively avoid?

TOPS tiles
Primark
An independent butcher close to us

My local boots chemist. Nothing against boots in general, but in this particular store I received terrible customer service so I've totally switched to another chemist (which is just across the road so no skin off my nose).

That reminds me Kolo. I've changed from Boots opticians due to poor communication and customer service.

Any company with adverts that are ridiculous, infantile or irritating. That's a lot of companies!

I'm probably hugely hypocritical in many ways when it comes to purchasing habits but I avoid:

Starbucks
MacDonalds and all similar 'fast food' restaurants
Oreos
Nestlé as far as possible
Tesco - their meat supplier is razing the Amazon
Nutella - hear Ferraro have an approved palm oil policy now but as I've heard of companies dodging the standards with underhand methods, avoidance is best
Estée Lauder
Amazon when possible
Super cheap clothing suppliers

Ethical Consumer and Greenpeace are good places to check.

Amazon

Starbucks and The Body Shop for their politics.

There's an independent shop in town - bits and bobs, homeware, that sort of thing - that has always made me feel very unwelcome. So I won't buy in there. There's a similar shop a couple of doors down who are so lovely, so it's no big loss.

Purina cat foods due to their failure to address concerns regarding cats falling ill and even dying after eating Felix cat food.

The Clinique counter in Nottingham John Lewis. Very nasty assistant who carried on dusting her shelves when my elderly mother was asking about reformation of a foundation. Clearly decided 70 year old wasn't worth her time. 70 year old thus spent £200 in Clinique at Debenhams.

Lush
Currys (not sure if they are even still around these days)

Any cosmetic companies who test on animals. Or use palm oil in their products.

@Barkingdog Why Lush? Not disagreeing with you, just interested.

Sorry I see you you were mainly focussing on customer service and I've approached it from the ethical production/ planet destroying sides

The RAC recently gave us terrible customer service. I will probably switch from them when our time runs out.

My only long-term boycott is for anything Murdoch owned.

Lush
The Body Shop

Local grocers. Owner is a twat.
Local bakery because shop assistant sneezed on my bread.
Volvo. Worlds worst customer service.

All Nestle products
Marks and Spencer
Boots
Next

Lush
Virgin
BUPA
Wilsons Car Supermarket

Capita and Npower. After working there I'd never give them my money. They discriminated against me when I was pregnant by moving my entire team to a different department and retraining them where as i was left behind and told it wasn't worth putting me through 2 weeks of training when I had 4 months before maternity leave.
They also generally treat their employees like dirt, they don't train them properly, provide no support for the amount of phone abuse they receive and blame the companies failings on the lowest workers.

Lush for the appalling way they treat their staff. Any MLM as they exploit people.

@AtomHeartMotherOfGod Why Estée Lauder?

I'm not inclined to use a local M&S because they currently have a trans male working in the women's changing room. Teenage DD felt too uncomfortable to try on anything because of it.

A coffee shop in our village. It refused to shut during the pandemic even though other 2 independent ones did. They put up notices declaring themselves not subject to the law.
Police had to waste time alongside council officials to force closure and now court time has been spent issuing them fines that they are refusing to pay and appealing.
So much hardship has been endured by everyone that it makes me really cross that they think they are above it.

Scottish Power
Sports Direct ( house of Fraser now too)

Ive gone off Boots too. Their staff are a disgrace. Always gossiping with each other and ignoring customers. They used to be excellent years ago now they are the pits. Body shop with their rubbishy products and daft new marketing schemes. I never give to MacMillan as so much goes to their fat cat executives.

The Positive Birth Company for their stance that north isn’t just women-centric, that ‘people’, bot just women give birth, and deleting all the comments questioning what the fuck they meant by that. Also fining a potentially unrealistic picture of birth being an empowering experience if approached in the right way, and making women feel bad if they didn’t have the calm, in control birth experience they tend to peddle.