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.

The Sainsbury's Centre at UEA campus. They refused me entry once.

They had a policy of no children under ten years old, and I was 6 months old, being carried in a sling by my mum. 42 years later, my one person boycott of them continues, and will do until my dying day.

Lloyds Pharmacy.

I have to be truly desperate and no other chemists available within 20 miles before I set foot in one of those again.

Can’t/won’t guarantee their changing rooms are single sex. I believe there are other retailers doing that too, but they’re the only one I particularly shop with.l

Anywhere with multiple toilets, which are now all unisex.

Wagamamas joined this list for me last month.

We boycotted Mothercare due to the terrible customer service.

Tried to buy several things from there and the lied to us, ignored us, over charged us or tried to do some dodgy cash-in-hand dealings.

The Mothercare was next to a Halfords, a Mama's and Papa's and a Smyths in a retail park so surrounded by competitors. Was always surprised how bad they were...

It would be useful to compile a list of places with no women - only toilets and changing rooms to boycott them

Bill’s restaurant chain.
We visited one, informed the manager of my DS’s allergies and was assured they could cater for him and showed us the allergen folder and we worked out the safe options for him. A few hours later, DS is covered in a rash, his eyes are puffy and he’s crying thag his belly hurts. I rang the branch we’d been to just to double check the things he’s eaten (even after being told twice by the manager that everything on his all day brunch was safe). The manager of the next shift answered the phone and told me that they’d changed the sausages they were using but hadn’t updated the allergen folder So what we were led to believe was a safe option, free from DS’s allergens actually wasn’t and contained 2 of them.
I told them they could kill someone operating that way. I was told that it wasn’t his job to update the allergen folders so wasn’t his problem
I hung up and reported them to trading standards and emailed head office to let them know about the sheer negligence in that particular branch.

Toni and Guy

Ever since I first tried to get a haircut there in 1995 and they told me that they don’t cut curly hair. I guess guess it’s not much of a boycott really!

Currys - sales people knowingly trying to flog cables/leads that were actually included with original purchase. Ryanair are my last airline on earth. The utter contempt they hold their customers in while happily taking their money.. Sky - v easy to join but impossible to leave. Lloyds Pharmacy, slow and inefficient. I do all that online now. Crew Clothing for ridiculous returns policy. A local clothing shop for their ridiculously bossy hand sanitising signs, policy and one way system even now.

Currys - I could write a long thread about them. But in a nutshell they were terrible from the person behind the till, to the manager, the ‘help’ line and warehouse staff
Never will I ever give them a penny ever again
Asda. - my mother was attacked by another customer and the staff did nothing - just said they ‘weren’t allowed’ to get involved

Car phone warehouse (are they still going?)
My ex left me with 8k of debts and I needed new debt like I needed a hole in the head-my credit rating at the time was so bad,I would have struggled to pay cash
I bought a pay as you go phone-that could only be topped up at one of their shops
I paid the £85 and left happy with my phone
Shitty luck would have it,it got stolen two days later so I bought a new one
Bloody carphone warehouse charged me £40 a month for the non contract I’d taken out-I panicked and paid the first bill but got onto them to say I’d not taken out a contract but they swore I had-and had my ‘free’ phone to prove it-the phone that had been stolen
I told them to take me to court with the non existent contract I hadn’t signed and they did!
Judge threw it out and wiped the debt but was a year of more stress I didn’t need

Clinkard shoe shop in York-I applied for a job years ago-they sent my rejection letter before I’d even had the interview
And to add salt to the wound they didn’t put a stamp on it meaning I had to pay a lot to get the rejection letter-and called me a liar when I went back in to show them-while holding the letter and proof of the extra money I’d been forced to pay
I did go back many years later to buy a pair of trainers and the shop assistant was so bloody snotty (think pretty woman and that scene in the clothing shop)
I put the shoes down and walked out

Shell garage on hull road in York-I had to work from a very young age to pay for basics like san-pro,food,bus fares etc
Anyway this one time the witch behind the counter snatched my fiver note and told me it was a fake without even looking at it
She put it in her pocket and told me she’d call the police if I tried to get it back or kicked up a fuss
I was a fiver down and had to walk to school for the rest of the week

B&q-I’d gone in with my kids and bought some wipes,paintbrushes and a plant
I paid at the self scanning machine that was near-ish the doors,got my change and walked out-I hadn’t even got the buggy over the line of the doors when two massive blokes came out of nowhere and collared me for shoplifting
They made a huge scene about ‘fucking shoplifters’ and ‘using kids buggies to steal’
Even the kids where like ‘but mum doesn’t steal-she’s paid for all this’
They hauled us into the back,with me waving my receipt,rang the police and I ended up having to show the police I had paid-to which these two beefy fellas laughed and said I’d been ‘customer no20-they always stop 1 out of 20-we saw her pay but as she was no20 we had to stop her’
Head office didn’t want to know-it was policy’

Carphone Warehouse I bought a brand new iphone with them and somewhere along the line someone swapped it with another phone. They then basically accused me of lying.

I would never buy a thing from them again - they treated me abysmally.

Ryan air

I felt they made their actual money not from their flights but by customers falling foul of all the traps they deliberately set up to encourage fines

@sadeyedladyofthelowlandsea

The Sainsbury's Centre at UEA campus. They refused me entry once.

They had a policy of no children under ten years old, and I was 6 months old, being carried in a sling by my mum. 42 years later, my one person boycott of them continues, and will do until my dying day.

This wins the thread! That is one long-held grudge

Dune - because I bought a pair of patent leather shoes there, which lost their shine within a week of not very hard wear, and they refused to refund me. They said they had investigated and there was no fault in the manufacturing process. It's been about 20 years, and I haven't crossed the threshold since.

Any pret after the shocking labelling that led to the death of a young women with allergy to sesame.

Pret - our local one is by the tube station and the bread is always stale. Also as others have said their slack attitude to the allergy regulations.

A certain restaurant/cafe in Crouch End which is so far up its own arse. Brought us the wrong food twice. DD had taken a bite out of the roll. The waitress gave the bitten roll to the customers at the next table then argued with them saying it was fresh from the kitchen. The customer had seen DD take a bite out of it!!

The AA. Left me stranded for 8 hours. I could have walked home faster.

Can someone please explain briefly about Ryanair? I very seldom fly but so many people have a hatred for them in common, I'm intrigued.
Me-m&s for the pronoun thing
Lush, same reasons as others, mainly the binder thing.
Bodyshop, their stuff is crap now anyway but the JK Rowling hatred and being owned by L'Oréal yet still keeping up their against anomal testing myth.

I flew Ryan last week and it was fine, except our panini took forever to com. Easy jet took our money during COVID and we lost £600 due to their misleading flexible fares

Oh yes, I've also boycott Ironmongery Direct after twice in a row ordering items to be delivered to the job and paying the 'before noon' premium, as I was only there for 1 day and needed to have the parts fitted that day. First time the parts arrived a couple of hours after midday, which was a pain and caused a delay but wasn't too disastrous. I called, they apologised and refunded the postage. The next time, at 2 minutes to midday I got an alert saying they had tried to deliver but no one was home (a load of bollocks). When I called to complain they argued the toss, essentially called me a liar, and the best they could do was refund the postage and deliver again the next day. It meant I had to rearrage the following days' work which was in another town, and it cost me £10 in fuel to have to return to the job to wait for and then fit the part, plus of course the cost of my time/lost earnings for not being on the next job. I used to spend a fair bit with them, and not using them had made things more difficult at times, but they will never get another penny from me!

imagine being this bigoted
-sophie, she/her

It isn't 'bigoted' to be against an ideology which denies that women are adult human females. I don't want to spend time or money somewhere which forces that false belief on people, or where biological truth is gaslighted.

Zilla

@Mushrooms0up

Sainsburys. Their own brand cat food poisoned a number of cats earlier in the year.

They refused to acknowledge it and their recall notifies simply stated ‘apologies for the inconvenience’ after pets had died.

Despite emailing head office about lack of empathy in the wording, they emailed a lady who lost her cat saying she was the ‘top
Buyer’ of said pet food as part of the ‘look what you bought this year’ nectar yearly round up email.

Other retailers in the same scandal (pets at home) offered to cover the cost of blood tests and sainsburys did nothing.

That's shocking . I'm amazed I didn't see anything about that on the news .

The Body Shop is no longer owned by L’Oréal and hasn’t been for a while now.

Domino's- due to the fact that they had their staff wearing advertising boards standing on street corners in sub-zero temperatures.