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?

The holes are to let the shame out line had me actually laughing, so true 😂

Michael Kors. So cheap looking

Yeah, I have the luxury of choice I suppose as all the supermarkets are near enough. If you can get your hands on a large Sainsburys, they are pretty good at all price points.

Co-op is as bad as Waitrose.

At least with M&S, I feel there’s some baseline quality you get for the price (although they’re not as good as they were before).

I love chococo. They do great ice cream sundaes at the cafe in Swanage

Marks and Spencer!

The fact they make normal things extra fancy really grates me. popped in to one the other day and fancied a sausage roll, get to the car to eat it and it was some kind of super seasoned extra cheesy pickle bacon monstrosity. Just give me a dirty vaguely meaty flaky sausage roll from greggs😂
It also really grates me when people refer to it as ‘marks’ pronounced mark-ziz (possibly regional or generational? I’m not sure)

I adore cube shaped vehicles, which is ridiculous and unexplainable. I lust after a Renault Kangoo. So practical!

Sorry, not in the spirit of the thread. Will balance it by saying I have an aversion to Farrow and Ball, despite copying their paint colours on a dulux mixing machine.

Lucy & Yak. Not just the clothing itself but their image overall.
Asda. I don't even know why.
Vauxhall. Disastra.
Sports Direct, although I'm sure I'd find it very useful if I had DC.
The s*n (does not deserve a capital letter). Actually, my dislike for that rag is not unreasonable.

Subway. Do you you want white, brown, wholegrain etc etc? Do you want it toasted or not? Do you want this meat, that meat, fish etc, etc? Do you want tomato, cheese, lettuce, cucumber etc etc? Do you want ......? etc
Me - "for fucks sake give me a ham and cheese roll"

Pandora - overpriced tat

Not sure it's that unreasonable but Boots because they haven't had enough staff for decades and because of their stupid stance during covid eg taping off the make-up aisles. In fact any brand that had silly rules during covid.

Also Lush because their products stink but also because of their political activism which I don't share.

Also agree the stupid Daisy perfume ads. I don't like perfume anyway as it gives me a headache.

Pret and Gail's as they seem so snooty to customers. Pret also used to have an egg and bacon sandwich which was more artificial than a Mac breakfast and had the sweetest yucky bun

Primark is no longer really cheap not for the adults clothes anyway

Snag tights and underwear

Oh yes! Boots. Because I can never find anything. Their store layout is painful. Much prefer Superdrug.

Mackenzie sportswear and I can’t give you a reason 😂 it just irritates me

Get the Marlie's thing with extras being in food.
I bought pickled onions and thought they taste odd there were mustard seeds in the vinegar 🤮
Detest mustard.
Apologies for the Markies..it's a Ne Scotland thing.

Asda.
And it's not a snobby thing as I'll happily go to Aldi or Lidl, but I avoid Asda unless I'm really desperate.

Louis Vuitton. Actually any ostentatious branding.

Sweaty Betty is a God awful name.

Mac computers

Adidas/ Nike/ Puma. A pair of white socks? Boring and inexpensive. Slap a brand icon on the side and now they're 'stylish' and you want me to pay how much? I'll never understand.

Yeah, I hate it. Cooking chocolate tastes better...and it's fairly rank tbh.

Daily Mail readers brainwashed into believing everything in the paper. They caused Brexit

Renault make rubbish vehicles so YANBU. The standards are low particularly amongst French car manufacturers!!! We live in France and everyone says they buy Renault and Peugeot because they break down so much that spare parts and mechanics are v easy to find for them. I kid you not!

I hate white goods brands. Almost all Samsung stuff I have had has been crap. I have a v expensive Samsung washing machine dryer and it’s absolutely rubbish. Takes 2 years to wash and dry a load. Ugly aswell.

I do not understand how car manufacturers and white goods brands get away with such shit shit shit service compared to other consumer products who are held to a very high bar mostly. car breaks down (even a quite new car!) and they are absolutely not responsible. Yet if a button comes off my coat, I can take it back for a refund or exchange. I do not get it. Most peoples’ second most expensive purchase is their car and the white goods they own. Zero after sales service. If you spent 2k on a coat / handbag/ hat etc you would have champagne and a personal shopper. What do you get in Curry’s when you buy a fridge?? Probably not even a seat to sit in for five minutes.

That monkey is as you describe and reminds me of Happy Gang from the 70s

Lush - gives me a headache just walking past one of their shops. I’ve no idea how anyone can shop there or use their products without becoming ill!

The Co-Op - over 20 years ago, I was working for an energy supplier and theirs was one of the multisite corporate accounts I account managed. For a full 2 years, without exception, for every opening of a new store or refurbishment/upgrade of an existing one, their project management team would leave it to the last minute to notify us that they needed a new electricity supply to be energised (meter installed, site registered etc).

They would kick off when I couldn’t corral multiple industry parties to shortcut procedures to meet their ridiculous and unrealistic timeline for opening! Even worse, on the occasions when I did pull a miracle out of my arse, I’d never get any genuine gratitude from them or recognition of what they needed to change in their processes to avoid these issues in the future.

Vodafone - had an interview with them early 2000s and towards the end, I asked one of the interviewers some question about their industry competitors. When answering, she referred to One2One (later became T-Mobile) as One2NoOne, in a stab at both their market share and limited network coverage. I just found it unprofessional and disrespectful and I wasn’t sure if it was just her personal view or a reflection of the wider business culture. It completely put me off and I ended up turning down the job offer. I did give feedback about it when asked by the recruitment team but I’ve no idea of it was ever passed on.

I really wish I didn't love Lush products as I really dislike some of the stuff that's come out about how they treat their staff, as well as how pushy their staff are as a result. I won't go into a shop because I absolutely cannot deal with the sales approach. DH tends to buy me Lush for Christmas but I do feel a bit guilty I'm not boycotting them.

I was born late 70s but i think i know what you mean did he have big sunglasses?
Ive never understood putting those monkeys on the bags, the bags themselves i quite like some of them but the monkey would have to come off
People rave about the monkeys though they love them
Why?!?