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?

Amazon, Argos, Sony. Well known reasons, multiple experiences of bad service, and past anti-customer behaviour respectively.

If I boycotted every company I deemed unethical, I'd have nowhere to shop.

Any personal care product company other than Tropic.

Ryanair for a whole host of reasons.

Sports Direct because of the warehouse management and the way he acts as owner of Newcastle United FC.
Primark as I don't want people to die making my clothes and their poor quality.
Sky and BT Sport as I think that they are expensive options to watch sport.

@SmidgenofaPigeon

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.

Absolutely agree with this, had to bite my tongue when SIL was banging on about how good they are as I knew she would find out to the contrary-the birth bits if not the anti-woman stuff- and I just didn't want to scare her days before birth (tempting as it was as a response to how patronising she was being to me about my own current pregnancy and previous birth).

Lush
Marks and Spencer because their customer service is diabolical every time.
MLMs
I won't ever promote NCT again as I've been trying to get in touch with them about something that doesn't involve them taking my cash and they just don't respond. So that tells me what I need to know as they're quick as a flash when you want to hand over your money.

My local Clarks, the staff shouldn't be working in a customer facing role, so rude.

A local gastro pub, they completely ignored me and served a well dressed couple instead.

Local Debenhams before they all closed. Rang their headoffice from the store to complain about one of their manager's, who said something like "The customer isn't always right, you are wrong and your attitude is really bad!" After he initially refused to do an exchange, even though I proof of purchase and it was within their returns policy.

I spent 20 years as a retail manager, so can't bear bad customer service. I do email compliments when I get good service. My team's would get more complaint letters than compliment letters, but this wasn't an actual reflection on their customer service. Consumer's are more likely to complain.

@MilesJuppIsMyBitch don’t the fitting rooms have doors? Your strange narrow minded bigoted thinking aside, How is it any different to the actual MEN working on the women’s fitting room in other stores? It’s perfectly normal. 😊

Lush- I hated the police campaign they ran and various other campaigns don’t sit right with me

Readly- sick of seeing influencers constantly pushing them

RSPCA shops because they let a lot of animals down

Oh is Laurel Hubbard of Hubbard's Cereal. That's them on my Naughty List then.
I spent 20 odd years refusing to drink french wine because of the Rainbow Warrior.

@KleineDracheKokosnuss

And for charities:

The children’s society
The RSPCA
The NSPCC

I used to give money every month to the nspcc until I found out they use the money for sex offender programmes.

@Thewiseoneincognito

If not wanting to get changed in the same space as a man makes me an enlightened freethinking spirit then I’m happy to own that...🤷🏻‍♀️

Perfect timing for my addition according to the previous poster!

Any company that disregards women's legally protected private spaces - M&S are one example.

Any company that engages the men's rights group Stonewall as advisories.

Pret A Manger after the death of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse.

I do make some choices based on the company’s political stance on women and whether we are just vagina havers and menstruators. I mentally log them as they come through Twitter and if I can avoid, I do.

BMW. I've been bitten by them twice. Agreed a price on a car, only to go back into the showroom and for extra costs being added to the price. Twice this has happened after I expressly asked several times before making the trip into the dealership.

Lush

Body Shop

Nutella - not just palm oil - one third of the entire Turkish hazelnut harvest is bought by Ferrero. Many hazelnut orchards are dependent on Syrian refugees for harvesting and child labour laws are 'applied' loosely, if at all

Cadbury's

Mars

Nestlé

Unilever

Amazon
A small shopping centre in a posh area of town where people are REALLY snooty to anyone not dressed up to the nines. I find it amusing because I actually earn quite a lot but I will be buggered if I am getting botox and highlights just so they deign to be polite to me

Body Shop who don't give a crap for women and girls
Lush ditto,
Macdonalds
Starbucks

@ThisBeTheName 🙄

I hated the man when he was middle-aged, too, if it helps. And his bollocks may well have been wizened then. He may have been born with them wizened. Strongly suspect he was.

[quote MsHedgehog]@Thewiseoneincognito

If not wanting to get changed in the same space as a man makes me an enlightened freethinking spirit then I’m happy to own that...🤷🏻‍♀️[/quote]
😆🤣 can they see through doors? There’s nothing ‘enlightened’ about that level of paranoia

A local chippy near my DM, because the owner is a wanker, and was hideously rude and unfair to me when I worked there as a teenager. I lasted two nights. DM still refuses to go in there years later

Amusingly, I also have a local clarks I refuse to step foot into because of poor management. The manager has been there as long as I've lived here and after his patronising attitude to me on a couple of occasions, the final straw was when I saw him be unbelievably rude and patronising to an older woman behind her back. I have not darkened the doors since. But sadly, he's still there.

Our local village loves to bang on about shopping local, please shop independent etc and of course, they were all outraged when a large coffee chain established a site. But I have now decided I will never again step foot in the local pet shop. They might want me to come and support them but in my 10 years of owning pets, they have never once made me feel welcome or wanted in their shop and the big chain pet shop in the local town centre is friendly, helpful and a fraction of the price. It's actually quite astonishing I've only started boycotting them now.

@Thewiseoneincognito So you’ve never needed help by a fitting room assistant? Someone who comes to the fitting room door and you then open the door for them to help you... The lack of logic 😂😂😂

Lidl, they work their staff into the ground, I worked there, lasted 6 weeks until I got so run down it made me ill.

RSPCA for the reasons previously mentioned.

Brexiteer ones if I can.
I'd like to avoid Amazon, but it's very difficult.

@Athrawes

Oh is Laurel Hubbard of Hubbard's Cereal. That's them on my Naughty List then. I spent 20 odd years refusing to drink french wine because of the Rainbow Warrior.

Yup. Owned by Dick Hubbard. Father of Laurel

DH brought it home one day (he's the granola eater) and I pointed out the connection and it's never darkened our home again. DH rocks. He's also the Sanitarium refuser.