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 MsHedgehog]@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 😂😂😂[/quote]
🤣🤣 I wouldn’t be so trashy to open the door naked, also I don’t believe every male is a rapist or voyeur. 😉

Nestle
Cadbury’s
Sainsbury’s chocolate and cocoa since it’s not fair-trade any more.

Oh, I should have added Kwik Fit who ripped me off royally and then lied about it - they thought they'd put me on hold and hadn't. I could hear every word of the arse-covering conversation they had.

Lush

Cadbury
Starbucks
The Times

[quote MsHedgehog]@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 😂😂😂[/quote]
And also to belittle a teenage girl and call her 'unenlightened' for not wanting to be in a state of undressed vulnerability where a man is guarding the exit/entry.

Fucks sake.

@Thewiseoneincognito

Yes, let’s resort to name calling, yet I’m the trashy one... And of course, I must be opening the door naked right? Again, where is your logic? “😂😂😂”

If this is something you’re keen to argue on, please learn how to argue. Calling women names and saying we assume that all men are voyeurs and rapist just makes you look stupid and inept.

It was Arcadia before they collapsed. Purely due to the odious toad ‘Sir’ Philip Green

@Malin52 a man guarding the exit entry? It’s an M&S fitting room not the Crown Jewels. I’ve heard it all now 🤣

John Lewis, since they outsourced their customer service. I was happy to pay over the odds for good customer service but now that that's gone, it's not worth it.

Lush & Body Shop due to aforementioned reasons
Nestle - it’s shocking how many brands they own
Coca Cola
Cadbury - it tastes like over sweetened, artificially chocolate flavoured wax.
Starbucks. The 9/11 Water charge says a lot about their corporate culture.
Any MLM
Dyson, Wetherspoons - they campaigned for Brexit then complained when it happened & shafted their workers
Anything connected with Mike Ashley, Rupert Murdoch or Jeff Bezos, unless I genuinely cannot find the same or an equivalent product available at an affordable price anywhere else at all. And even then I usually mull it over for several days & consider if I really need it - usually I don’t.

Oh, also the Guardian.

Wish I could boycott the BBC, but I love them too much.

Although I did unfollow CBeebies on FB when they posted a short film of a four year old boy 'living as a girl', and gushed on about how wonderful his parent were.

Also anything to do with Philip Green, I knew there was another one.

Nestlé, for all the reasons

Boots - making a massive profit from prescription work while dodging tax through American ownership (iirc they've registered in Delaware which is notorious for low tax) AND reducing pharmacy coverage and pay AND relying on government benefits to top up staff salaries. And any time I've taken a prescription in they've said 'we've only got half can you come back in a few days for the rest'. I started going to my local independent pharmacy and - despite having less space - they've always been able to fill anything same day.

Warburton's bread etc - massive Tory supporters

Sainsbury's - their self scan app fails too often and the only thing you can do is wait for a staffed-till which is few and far between. No customer services apparent, unless you count waiting in the lottery and vapes queue for someone to then call someone else who might have a clue

[quote Thewiseoneincognito]@Malin52 a man guarding the exit entry? It’s an M&S fitting room not the Crown Jewels. I’ve heard it all now 🤣[/quote]
Hilarious isn't it. Of course it's not. Try thinking. You have belittled a teenage girl for being guarded.

Sports direct, shocking customer service and now sadly House of Frazer

@Malin52 Try thinking.

The irony

Having worked for a national charity and a local one. I have stopped supporting the national ones the waste is appalling and most of their money comes from legacies anyway

Cadburys
Nutella
Starbucks
Amazon

My nearest lidl. Went from being brilliant, to rude surly staff.

I’m a stubborn old cow so there’s probably more.

My local Volkswagen car dealership. Went in to discuss buying a car and fobbed me off by making another appointment at a later date. Basically saying I needed to go home to speak to my husband. I complained but didn't receive an adequate response

Wetherspoons- various reasons, mainly due to the owner.
Lush- again various reasons

British Telecom in all it's forms - I have had several complete ongoing nightmares both at home and at work from them. Most terrible customer service of any organisation I have ever dealt with. I would pay more not to be a customer. Another business on our site refuse to deal with them also, had similar problems to us.

A pharmacy attached to my GP's surgery

When I was trying to tick one of the boxes on the back of the prescription form, they said "oh THAT one is for the people on benefits" in a sneery way.

It seemed to be totally lost on her that she had recently advertised for a new worker and was only paying minimum wage. If that person was single and had children then they would be probaly be ticking one of those boxes

Hiplip

Do you have a link to this as I can't find anything online regarding Felix food being recalled?

I refuse to shop online.

@Oldraver

A pharmacy attached to my GP's surgery

When I was trying to tick one of the boxes on the back of the prescription form, they said "oh THAT one is for the people on benefits" in a sneery way.

It seemed to be totally lost on her that she had recently advertised for a new worker and was only paying minimum wage. If that person was single and had children then they would be probaly be ticking one of those boxes

Did you say that to her?