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

[NETSRIK]

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.

I'm considering boycotting Sainsburys as they didn't have any jam doughnuts yesterday.

Pret a manger because of their refusal to give a shit when their lack of labelling caused a young girl to die from an allergic reaction.

Lush, as above.

Pizza Express in a local town for being so utterly shit at providing the food we had actually ordered in a timely manner. The wouldn't even come to give us the bill so we paid for the starters we'd waited 90 mins for and left.

Halfords for breaking bits of the car while fitting a break lamp bulb. I could have done that, I wanted it done without breaking the cover though. They've just refused to gone DS a job too so he's joining me.

I refused to go into Safeway after a horrible experience but I relented when it became Morrisons.

Halfords, after they totally messed up a car service a couple of years ago. The oil leaked out of the new oil filter ruining our drive and potentially wrecking the engine. The news tyres were dangerously underinflated. When the car went into another garage for the next service they found part of of socket set abandoned and wedged so tightly onto a nut in the engine that they had to work on it for nearly an hour to get it off. They will never have a penny of my money again.

Wetherspoons because of the well publicized opinions of the owner.

Ryanair - again because of the utter contempt they appear to have for customers. The man seems to take delight in doing and saying everything he can to alienate them.

Greggs because they have such a domination in the high street that two of our lovely local bakers have shut down since they arrived in town.

Our local KFC who just cannot seem to put together even the simplest order - they always manage to leave out at least one item.

Fluffymule, with you on Ryan Air. Refuse to give a penny to someone who glories in rudeness. Treated me appallingly in Dublin airport and when I complained, did not shout or abuse, threatened to not let me board. Have boycotted them for 10 years even though have to use an airport slightly further away and pay a little more. Money well spent to avoid them

Iocal farm shop. Lots of different types of bread with a sign saying please do not touch so I asked her what bread she recommended for sandwiches she picked one out charged me 4 pounds for a small white tin loaf. Got home it was stale and at least 2 days old.

Nearest Morrisons due to general incompetence. Other ones in the area are fine.

Since being diagnosed with coeliac disease 6 months ago, if I'm going for a coffee, I'd rather go somewhere with good gluten free options even if I'm not eating. It's really put me off a few places when their gluten free options are just the normal meals with half the food removed, sold at the original price. If somewhere makes an effort to have even one decent gf dish I want to support them.

Same with Lidl though that's more practical. They have no gluten free staples anymore so my whole family's weekly shop has moved to a shop where I can buy pasta I can eat!

John Lewis for appalling customer service over the faulty JL branded dishwasher and the tumble dryer I bought which caught fire. Purchased within a couple of months.
Oh and their ridiculously long refund times.
They are sooo on my shit list.

Not a bricks and mortar shop or restaurant, but Staples is top of my boycott list. Annoyingly they sell a type of lever arch file that I can't get elsewhere, but I won't cave on this. Terrible company.

A pub near me that tried to blame Brexit on them charging over £6 for a very weak shandy

Sainsburys - they let us down with quality of food delivered at a really crucial time.

A restaurant near us was very unfriendly about pushchairs- have been pushchair free for many years but they aren't getting my cash.

M&S because of pronoun badges

I love Lush bath bombs and the whole family knows that someone has to get me some for each birthday and Christmas. The buying experience is awful though with their pushy staff. Also their prices have increased ridiculously. I went there recently with the intention of treating myself and left empty handed. I couldn't justify spending over £6 on one pretty coloured, smelly, glittery bath. I've decided an expensive bath oil is better value for money.

My local Specsavers. The rudest staff anywhere locally. I had a problem with my new £500 glasses and had to go back to them more than once . On my third visit I jokingly apologised for being their difficult customer. You really are that the assistant replied! I never returned I went twenty miles to the next branch who fixed and apologised profusely for the error my local branch had made with my prescription.

Unless I am desperate, my local Boots. One for poor service pre-covid when they never have enough staff - I had to walk out one day when they had nobody on any till - and then for poor service post covid when they started kicking off about unnecessary purchases and taping off aisles.

I wouldn't go into Lush or Benefit either because of overbearing staff.

Arnold Clark since 2004. I refuse to even go with anyone else to their sales rooms.
They phoned the police to have me removed from the showroom. My crime; I was talking to a customer who was waiting to buy a new car, I was waiting on my car being fixed for the 10th time that month and they asked my thoughts on their customer service. Just a general conversation so I told them I'd had a dreadful experience, a sales manager called 999 to have me removed 🤣🤣 the police didn't show up and the staff members boss did apologise but I've refused to step foot in their garages ever since.

When cafes and restaurants reopened indoors after lockdown, I boycotted any of them that insisted on using paper cups instead of full NORMAL service.

@NETSRIK

I also botcott one particular checkout woman at Sainsburys as she seems to have an obsession with coathangers and if you ask if you could keep any on items of clothes you buy, she then gives you a mouthful about why you shouldn't. No one else does this.

Sainsburys tend to have quite a few staff who have worked there 30/40 years and think they own the place. Management know who they are and no matter how obnoxious these people are, they cant/won't get rid of them 😫

Banana Tree restaurants, I wet to one and they served me something with shellfish instead of the veggie dish I had ordered and didn’t seem that phased when I pointed it out. Really awful since shellfish is a common allergen.

Bella Italia. Never been back after my then 7yo was served raw chicken. It was lucky she struggled to cut it and I began to help her, otherwise as a little kid she wouldn’t have realised it was raw (completely) and she would have eaten it and been really ill.

@Hippywannabe Is that in Plymouth? We had one near us who refused to close, then started a gofund to pay the fines!

A very local coffee shop - on the next road - that put bunting and flags in its window on the day we left the EU. Considering our area is pretty half and half about Brexit I thought this was an interesting business decision, and being a strong Remainer I didn’t fancy giving them my custom when there are about eleventy million other coffee shops in town. They seem to be closed now anyway although it’s hard to tell as they always had weirdly erratic opening hours.

Harvester restaurants in the town near where I grew up, I had a burned but alive maggot on my plate as a teen 🤢. To be honest I have only been in 1 harvester since and that was as someone else had booked it

Oh yes - Indian restaurant in our village. We booked, turned up at the right time then after our main course we were asked to move into the waiting (for takeaways) area at the front for pudding and coffee because they’d overbooked and needed our table!!!