Brands you (unreasonably) dislike?

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I was thinking about this tonight as I parked next to a Renault SUV. It’s completely unreasonable but I’ve never liked the brand since someone I know once said ‘it’s like driving a bin on wheels’. Even though I’m sure the brand is perfectly fine (and very popular) it’s stuck in my head. Apologies to all Renault drivers!

I’ve got other brands I unreasonably dislike too but do you have any?

I had Heinz oxtail soup the other day. A strange craving! It was awful.

Waitrose tomato ketchup is just as good, and 1/3 of the price.

But I agree 2000000001that Waitrose is very expensive.

Asda - I went to one once and that was enough. Though I hear their hazelnut and hot chocolate drink is very good.

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I feel sorry for the staff that work for that git.

May I ask if the jeans were good. I’ve been looking at their trousers for work but wasn’t sure of the quality. TIA

I've never flown with them as I worry that they'd look for an excuse to deny me boarding. A damaged page in my passport, perhaps? I also fear they'd take me to an airport in a neighbouring country and I'd then have to fork out for a 100 mile bus journey to my destination.

Boden
Seasalt
FatFace
Hush
Mint Velvet
Joules

Armani
Hugo Boss
Tommy Hilfiger
North Face
Ted Baker

Just cannot take them seriously.

Ooh yes, with LV plastered all over the things. So frightfully vulgar, dear.

I buy petrol station chocolate a local Petrol station that has a car wash I like ( you just sit there quietly and the machinery goes backwards and forwards over you no tracks to rip your tires off). A small bar is perfect.

Having worked for Radley it’s not very well made or good value. It’s made so it can be reduced and still make a profit. The expectation is that minimal is sold full price

Oh God, I'm hate hate hate that octopus thing 🤬

Honestly pretty much one of the ugliest brands around. Especially when teamed with a stripy top and clumpy boots. Hideous

W H Smith - something about that shop. I take a deep breath any time I go in there. I used to hate the way they try and force a massive bar of cheap chocolate on me every time I went in there. I’m buying a newspaper, why would I wanna buy massive bar chocolate; are you that desperate for money? Have some class!

It’s strange, but once a company is taken over by one of the big boys, streamlined for profit, sometimes even saved from bankruptcy – it’s never the same. They lose that essential character.

Re. the Co-Op, I do occasionally shop there, but I don’t support the Labour Party and I know profits go to them via the trade union. I stopped banking with them for the same reason.

Dry robes (aka c* cloaks)

Well I always bought stuff in a sale to be fair, their sales were good, and I thought it was very good quality compared to other High Street stuff 🤷‍♀️

Apart from the fact that Bath Oliver's were the absolute BEST biscuit to have with cheese, they don't even exist any more. They stopped making them in 2020 during the pandemic.

Any brand owed by some tacky influencer/d list celeb.

Apple
Coty
Dyson
Fat Face
G-Tech
Kipling
Pandora
Ryanair
Seasalt
Sports Direct
Waitrose
Weatherspoons

I'd better stop there - I need a lie down!

Anything new?

They stopped together with Le Carre. Sorry for the crassness of it, but this unreasonable hatred still has a grip on me.

I had the misfortune to work for one of their dealerships and it’s twat central in the sales team, they seem to attract customers as awful as they are.

Läderach, which is now available in London for a small fortune and is a Guardian outrage story waiting to happen given the views of its proprietors. And Aeschbach. Oh and Cailler in the supermarket.

It’s not really true to say the Swiss don’t eat Lindt though. It’s everywhere, just not quite as aspirational a brand. Sprüngli, its cake-making former arm, is properly posh though.

Purdy and Figg. Pandora. Sephora.