Are there any shops/restaurants etc. that you boycott due to a bad experience/service?

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I have two - Co-op (due to their manager in my local store selectively targeting only certain people about what were essential items in their shopping during Covid.

And Asda as their supermarket online delivery customer service line is really bad.

Clarks have gone seriously downhill. They don't even fit shoes now, just measure and assume all shoes will fit the same way and the quality is crap. Every time I've been in they also haven't had the size we've needed and told me they can order it in for me - yes I can do that too, it's called the internet.

Lush for a series of fucking awful campaigns, and generally treating their staff like crap. Also their products aren't as green and natural as they would have you believe.

Bodyshop for being shitty towards JK Rowling, and again their products aren't as natural as they like you to believe. Also Anita Roddick basically plagiarised a small independent company.

Sports Direct for the appalling way they treated their workers.

Ben and Jerry's for their endless preachy virtue-signalling, and their hypocrisy - their supply chain was found to contain the use of poorly treated migrant workers, then there was this car crash of an interview:

@NeverGoingBackOrAmI

Monarch Airlines for not caring that everyone else had eaten hours ago and my vegetarian breakfast didn’t make an appearance until the Manchester tarmac was in sight. Bastards.

I thought Monarch airlines had gone bust a few years ago ?

Pretty much any shop/bank/cafe chain etc that indulges in controversial social justice campaigns that have absolutely sod all to do with the actual services they provide.

@MaddyMagellan

Pretty much any shop/bank/cafe chain etc that indulges in controversial social justice campaigns that have absolutely sod all to do with the actual services they provide.

This.

I do miss Bodyshop stuff but the TRAs/MRAs will keep em in business. They don't need women customers.

@CatrinVennastin OMG I live in Crouch End, which restaurant was that?!

@sophiebmumof3 what is it about all gender toilets that put you off? x

Are you serious? Are you serious in asking that question? You don't understand why women, who vulnerable as we all are, don't want to share toilet facilities with men? Please tell me your question isn't serious. PLEASE?

Honest Burgers: when I tried using my Bluelightcard in their local restaurant, they claimed it was for the cardholder only. I checked on their website: it says it applies to the whole party. I emailed them, no response... It's a shame as their rosemary chips are really nice.

Our village shop. On a lovely sunny afternoon several years ago, we were watching the tennis on the IPad in the garden. DH fancied a couple of beers so walked to the village shop. He asked for a 6 pack and did they have any cold ones in the fridge in the back of the store room rather than taking warm ones off the shelf.

The owner who was in by himself said they are in the fridge but he can’t go and get them because DH could steal something. DH told him what he thought, left and hasn’t been back. The shop owner knows DH as he delivered to him so knew where he works, knows where we live and knew where I worked at the time. Never been back.

I won’t go into Claire’s after seeing them forcibly hold a baby down to have her ears pierced. Horrendous.

Local independent pushchair/baby wear stockist. At the time they were one of very few available stockists of the pushchair I really wanted for DC1. I had planned to buy from them even though they weren't the most competitive on pricing, as I wanted to support a small local business. I thought it was really good luck that they were so local to me and that they stocked this fairly obscure pushchair brand. When I went in they were absolutely awful and wouldn't let me even touch the pushchair let alone unfold it and try wheeling it up and down etc. They said they would only let me touch it after I paid in full for it, as they had people wasting their time by wanting to try out the stock in the shop and then going away to buy it cheaper online. In the end I told them they had just lost a sale and I left, managed to get the pushchair I wanted elsewhere in the end and I have never been back into the shop.

Morrisons. Shocking customer service with an online delivery.

Nestle brands. The slavery & baby formula issues.

Lush and. Body shop for same reasons as before - campaigns, binders and the Twitter response when JKR wrote about why single sex spaces were important to here.
Brewdog due to allegations of bullying and harassment

I still actively avoid a handful of restaurants/cafés who have assured me about their gluten-free options (cooking their “gluten-free” chips with gluten fish, for instance – maintaining that it’s OK). Telling me that I’m wrong when I say that it means it isn’t a gluten-free option annoys me. My family will boycott the same places even though gluten isn’t an issue for them. Some people have no idea how bad practice and service can have such repercussions.

If I get good service, I will absolutely give good reviews and recommend those establishments.

I won’t use our local Wickes purely because they messed up an expensive kitchen order, blamed me, lied about delivery times (which cost me money), delivered broken items and said it wasn’t their fault, etc. It was several different members of staff and, when I went into store to get things sorted out (politely), they couldn’t have been less interested. One assistant nearby was listening, and rolled his eyes. We have had several major kitchen/bathroom purchases since then, as have my family, and we all avoid them now. It was so many years ago now, but I was upset at the time and can’t shake off how I felt at their rudeness.

L’Occitane - has started an MLM
Body Shop - has had an MLM wing since 1994 (thanks Anita ). As mentioned by @ScreamingMeMe the whole “I dreamt up the idea for BS” is BS. Rather a long list of negatives including the other issues mentioned upthread.
Neal’s Yard - MLM
Usbourne books - MLM

You get the picture - I can’t support any company that deceives (mainly) women and is happy to use a business model that sees over 99% of participants lose money.

Anything owned by Mike Ashley. I had sent an expensive item back to store for a refund, it showed as being delivered, next day went into administration so I was well out of pocket.

Pandora as the snooty assistant was incredibly rude to me. When I approached the till there was a box of various items on the counter.

I went to look in it and he literally snapped it shut and whipped it away as though I was some kind of unruly street urchin from Oliver Twist.

Maybe he wasn’t supposed to have left it out but an “excuse me I’m not supposed to leave this on display” wouldn’t have been hard.

I was about 21 with both my parents who were buying me a gift to celebrate my graduation. I went to Mulberry instead - and I have bought several items from them over the years.

I’ve never ever set foot in Pandora since.