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?

Molke bras. They look hideous, make your boobs look horrendous and no matter how often you say you don’t want one, someone will pop up to insist it’s the best thing they’ve ever bought.

Cath Kidston - too fussy and twee
Zadig & Voltaire - once bought a t-shirt of theirs, it did not give me a subtle aura of cool and didn’t last very long.
FIFA - corrupt
International Olympic Committee - doesn’t respect women
WH Smith - just depressing
Innocent - agree re annoying little hats, and disingenuous name
Lush - I can never buy anything there bc I get a headache before I can choose anything
Black Sheep Cafes - they arrived in my city too fast and too ubiquitously
Fruit of the Loom - brings back memories of teenage years
Agree with other posters re Soap & Glory - packaging over product
McDonalds - the photo op of them giving free meals to young members of the IDF in October 2023 has never left me
M&S - ditto their anti-Palestine Christmas ad, it was utterly gratuitous. Christmas, ffs.

i dont like cath kidson, cannot see the appeal
dont like WH Smith, too expensive, too many cards for me to choose.
oh i like Black Sheep cafes, well, i have been to one, twice, and enjoyed the food

Thanks for resurfacing that horrible memory of my student part time job!
We had a regular who's drink was 'Venti EXTRA HOT non fat triple shot latte with ONE PUMP of sugar free vanilla syrup. DID YOU GET ALL THAT?'.
I still remember her order 20 bloody years down the line but she'd insist it was wrong every time.

Also had a woman throw a pack of sandwiches at my head because she was allergic to tomatoes and I could make her one without. We had no ingredients in store, everything is pre packed.

Manager would emerge from the back only when the mum and toddler groups arrived to attempt to flirt with them. Teens would bring in McDonald's and subway from the other outlets nearby because Starbucks was cooler to hang around in them leave all their mess behind.

And don't even get me started on the '3rd place' brainwashing, sorry, training.

he was shocked to find out that the high-end brands are no better made than than the high-street versions - you’re simply just paying for the name.

This is not true of all high end brands. The better ones don't manufacture in asia for starters, and will have bags made of decent leather in italy.

My mum has had a burberrys mac since the 80s and its still in perfect nick. UK manufactured and they still are apparently.

My hated brands - tesla (ugly inside), basically all french brand cars but citroen especially because they just don't last.

I irrationally hate loewe puzzle bags. I know they are really trendy but they just look like they've been sewn out of offcuts to me.

I absolutely hate white fox and most of these influencer promoted brands. All these teenagers paying loads for a hoody with two words printed on it.

Nearly all of the above (except Apple!). I also have an irrational hatred of Ganni or any other label that has to ‘shout’!

KFC, revolting greasy food, the chips are limp and disgusting too...

😂

@AFrogInABog oh wow that Multipla is quite something!

@SexRealist You are the Cube/Multipla’s target market 😮

My friend's partner has grown up kids, one of whom has a Tesla. She hosted a lunch at her house recently and we were all invited to go outside and coo over the Tesla. I was the only one who didn't go out - I couldn't give less of a shite about seeing it's doors open remotely (or whatever it was) etc.

TGI Fridays. I worked there many years ago and they had a 'peer shift leader' system in this particular branch, which meant that 18 year olds were managing other 18 year olds and giving written feedback on eachother on a shift-by-shift basis. It was like Lord of the Flies.

And the food is crap.

But why would you want a tent ON your car? What is the benefit? I'd spend all night worried that I'd fall off the car (I know you probably cant) and one of the good things about a tent is that you can unzip it and roll out. I cant be doing with ladders in the middle of the night for a scary walk by torchlight to go to the spider infested portaloo.

With reference to those of us who hate Morrisons but don't know why, it may be their colour scheme!! I did a marketing course a few years ago and this was discussed at length. Apparently morrisons black/green scheme makes us all feel depressed - similarly Asda's green scheme however Sainsburys orange and Tescos blue make us feel more cheerful.

About 30 years ago a Barclays machine ate my card and I've had unfairly negative feelings about the bank ever since.

Can’t say too much but Barclays were a client of my employer at one time and I did quite a lot of work there. Let’s just say that what I discovered horrified me and I discreetly told friends and family that if they had accounts there, they should close them and move elsewhere. I’ve worked with a lot of banks and that’s the only time in my career that’s I’ve ever felt forced to say that.

I hate the Sainsbury’s orange beyond words!! Who on earth came up with orange?! It’s awful. I pretty much hate Sainsbury’s full stop these days, especially their two-tier pricing and poor quality fresh food. Pretty sure my store keeps anything fresh in a back room until it starts to rot and then they wheel it out to the shelves. And don’t even get me started on how quickly their milk goes off (usually days before the best before date).

The Peoples Post Code Lottery because of their infuriating ads....and that song someone's Knockin at your door 😫

😂😂😂I hate the easyjet orange but the sainsburys version is OK for me - however i've boycotted them since they started their 'Nectar price' labelling which has nothing to do with the colour scheme

I don’t especially like monkeys anyway

happy gang were funny plastic animals with bright fur and names like Bumpkin bear and trolls

some were keychains and I wanted them so badly when I was around 7/8

I think they are so cute, especially the convertible.

Polyester hell.

*Happyjoe *
I like cheap chocolate.
A friend who l rarely see now, sent me a huge Hotel Chocolat 'Happy Birthday' bar recently.
I thought it was dreadful. I tried a small bit, and it was tasteless and waxy, like the chocolate in cheap unbranded advent calendars. I was staying with a friend and seeing more friends/family at the time, so l told everyone to help themselves.
They all said it was awful. Even my youngest stepson, but who must have found it marginally less awful than the rest of us, so he ate it.
As his dad said, "He eats owt, though...."

Bershka. I don’t get it, and everything seems a bit tarty. Or I’m seriously out of touch.
I had to buy an emergency cardigan and got it from Bershka. I can assure you it wasnt tarty!! It soon went to the charity shop.

*HundredMilesAnHour *
Yes to the Sainsbury's orange!
And whoever thought it was a good idea to pair it with that awful puce coloured staff uniform - imagine spending hours looking like a blood clot....

So this thread was about brands people unreasonably dislike and started off quite sensibly (and amusingly) but pretty soon disintegrated into the MN Bingocard of Bayliss and Harding, anything scented, virtue-signalling about brand ethics etc.
Why is it that posters are always so keen to show their superior taste and just love knocking back anything that a ordinary/standard/average person would consider a slight upgrade on something you would buy for yourself?
Are posters supposed to be impressed that your palette is so sophisticated that you can only eat the very finest Swiss chocolate and 'hate' Hotel Chocolat, or that your nose is so delicate that you 'hate' Yankee Candles for instance?
It happens every. single. time