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?

[quote ShowOfHands]@Thewiseoneincognito you don't need to agree with previous posters but when somebody details a teenage girl not wanting to disrobe in an area occupied by a male, do you really think crying with laughter is an appropriate response. Even if you aren't a woman of a certain religion, an abuse survivor or somebody vulnerable, it's okay to say no simply because we are entitled to same sex spaces. Laughing at women trying to uphold legal rights does not paint you in a good light.

I refuse to give money to Starbucks, Lush, Body Shop, Wetherspoons, Nestle and the local sweet shop. In fact, I tend to shop solely in local independents or at the market/charity shops.[/quote]
THIS here. I'm sick to death of people telling girls and women we're "bigots" and the like for not wanting to be vulnerable where men are.

Pizza hut. I went to one with my family, we didn't get served. Other people came in, and got served, but not us!! When we complained to the waitress, we were nice about it, the manager came over and shouted at us for complaining!! We walked out. I complained to head office, they rung the store, and I received a response that made the whole situation to be my fault!! Went to another restaurant in the same area, and didn't get served at all. Sat there for a long time, staff were too busy talking to serve us. Walked out again. This was up north too, didn't find people friendly at all, despite what people say.

Lush, M&S, Body Shop are all stores I no longer use.

Ok and kraft for buying everything, making The locals unemployed and relocating to another country when they said they wouldn't, changing recipes and charging more for less, that bloody Irene Rosenfeld... refusing to appear before a mp's select commity

Anything owned by Philip Green or Mike Ashley.

Anyone who supports Mermaids (including Starbucks and Tesco) or who thinks it’s ok to screw over women for woke points (including PBC, M&S, Lush and The Body Shop).

Trying to stay away from Stonewall affiliated companies too.

I also tend to avoid companies which gift to “influencers”. How can you post an honest review on anything you haven’t paid for?

thewiseoneincognito I'm not remotely interested in whether others think I'm narrow minded and bigoted. I just won't use changing rooms staffed by men.

Virgin Pure which do water machines for the home and office. Has the worst customer service I have ever encountered in my whole life. Told me that my machine would be mine after 24 months of weekly payments then I would only pay for filters. 5 years later and they are denying this, say I still rent my machine, that they don’t have any copies of contracts and that I can pay half price to keep my old, hardly working machine. They are also fond of contacting debt collectors when anyone cancels their direct debit as they are so pissed off with the shysters. Reviews online are terrible. Appalling company that should be shut down.

Lush, Primark and Body Shop are the main ones. And I’d rather set fire to my money than give it to Oxfam.

@FizzyPink

Any MLMs Any brands gifting hideously expensive products to influencers who absolutely don’t need it (although this is becoming tricky as they all seem to be at it nowadays)

Yep them too. If a company is happy to give away their absurdly expensive product to a millionaire who could buy it several times over if they actually wanted it then they clearly don’t need my custom.

Boots Opticians - sold me new glasses when they should have referred me to Eye Casualty the same day. When the new glasses (unsurprisingly) didn't improve my eyesight, they tried to make out that was somehow my fault.
I went to another opticians who sent me straight to hospital, having phoned ahead to the opthalmology department. Luckily the damage to my vision caused by the delay in getting treatment wasn't too bad.

Not that I often would be able to afford to go there but the Burgh Island hotel after I worked there for an entire summer and they then refused to pay me a penny. They were still doing it to summer staff regularly until at least a couple of years ago. I think it’s changed ownership since but I’m still angry about it.

Lush, Body Shop, Starbucks and Innocent for their attacks on feminism.

Nestle (mostly, lve lost track of all their brands) Starbucks, lush, body shop, currys.

@ThreeWitches - or anyone else interested in why Lush really aren't as great a company as they claim to be - I suggest you put the kettle on, there's a fair bit to read.

Lush for this disgusting campaign.

We are a police family and I'd never shop in there (even if I could stop gagging from the stench long enough to go in there).

Cineworld in Glasgow. I was sitting in the second to back row and the guys in the back row were drinking and talking and just being arses. Then one of them answered their phone and I turned round and asked him to please get off his phone. He kicked the back of my head when I turned back around.
I went out and spoke to a staff member to ask them to be removed (screening was sold out so I couldn't just move seats). They got the security guy who said it would be better if I left with my boyfriend because he didnt want to have to tell a group of young men who had been drinking to leave the screening, and since there were no other seats for us, he told us to leave.

I was an unlimited customer so they couldn't refund my ticket as I hadn't paid the ticket price and I hadn't kept my receipt for popcorn and drinks so no refund for that.
I stayed to make a proper complain about how they handled it and asked them to call the police because he had kicked me in the head, and then the security guard went and removed the boys because the manager realised that this was all not publicity he wanted. They then told us to leave again and told me to call the police myself if I wanted... so they sent us out after just removing the boys and we had to walk along the street to find a taxi with those lads harassing us and shouting things etc.

Cineworld couldn't have given a fuck when I called the complain the next day.

@JurassicPark101

Not that I often would be able to afford to go there but the Burgh Island hotel after I worked there for an entire summer and they then refused to pay me a penny. They were still doing it to summer staff regularly until at least a couple of years ago. I think it’s changed ownership since but I’m still angry about it.

Lush, Body Shop, Starbucks and Innocent for their attacks on feminism.

Blimey that's awful, we spent our honeymoon and first anniversary there

Anywhere that' is sacrificing women's words for the trans agenda

Oh and Ryanair, they double charged me for flights in 1999 and wouldn't refund, in fact spent a fortune on calling their customer service which was a premium rate number!
Dyson or Wetherspoons due to Brexit.

Body shop because of that tweet to JKR, disgusting and they never apologised

Lush for reasons previously mentioned

John Lewis because they quietly changed the ladies changing room to mixed sex, it rarely has attendants and has curtains not doors. The reply to my message expressing concern was poor. M&S non food stores for similar reasons especially the disgusting reviews they used to publish on their website that only came down when Baroness Nicholson took them to task (I still go to the food store occasionally).

British Airways. Just absolutely awful.

Their planes are old, the service and food onboard is gross and inadequate. We haven't found a single flight we can use our points on yet because that flight doesn't have any "allocated upgrades available for point holders".

Will never ever fly with them again.

An local electrically shop. One of the owners spreads nasty lies about people around the town.

M+S after they significantly fucked up with my wedding cake. Imagine canceling someone's wedding cake and not telling them?! Imagine if I hadn't called a week before the wedding to check?! The call centre man had the nerve to get angry with me when I expected(in a polite manner) for them to fix it.

Currys after their monumental fuckery with our white goods when we moved. Their customer service people were lovely, but the system was so awful and broken no one could refund us or get us the goods we bought.

Charities

MacMillian due to their erasure of ‘women’ on their website, if they are changing language for inclusion why are the number of mentions of men increasing whilst the pitifully few mentions of the word women reducing? And what about inclusion for women with low English language skills?

Cancer Research for removing the word women from cervical cancer materials a few years ago

Stonewall as they’ve turned into a protection racket who hate lesbians

NSPCC for refusing to discuss child safeguarding on MN Chat

Girl Guides and Scouts due to safeguarding concerns

Oxfam after the appalling behaviour of some of the men working for them in Haiti and other places - they were sexually exploiting desperate women

I guess I boycott JK…but that’s no hardship cause I’m not that into HP.
I would boycott any company that was was anti-LGBTQIA, and I will boycott any product that is against trans rights.