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?

Lucy & Yak
Chinti & Parker

Their names really annoy me.

We boycott Costa. Not only is their coffee meh, but a bunch of friends bought a Costa voucher for a friend's husband. She was receiving end of life care in a hospital that had a Costa on site, so they were spending a lot in there. The coffeeshop wouldn't honour it because they were a franchise and Costa head office wouldn't refund when the circumstances were explained.

😂I love The Sanctuary body washes. I don't buy any of the creams etc but every Christmas I treat myself to some of the body washes. There are 4 scents now so I might be getting one of each. Need to smell them at my local Boots first.

Similarly; Weird Fish!

Yorkie bars. I still haven't forgiven them for their Not For Girls campaign.

Confession. I have a Tesla. It is the single best thing I own and it’s a dream to drive. The seats are extremely comfortable, the big iPad thingy is intuitive, it’s incredibly responsive, and it’s saving me an absolute fortune in petrol, BUT, I loathe Musk (I imagine many of the target market - leftish leaning, middle to high earning, care about the planet types feel the same way) and think he’s trashing the company and alienating his potential buyers. While I’m not getting rid of mine yet I’ll be looking seriously at other options when the time comes. The Ratner Effect is real.

Fat Face
especially at times in my life when I have a fat face

Yes, and frankly all the other brand names that follow this Noun & Noun pattern. There are so many, and they’ve just merged in my brain now.

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Can I add Peter Crouch to your list. And of course it just has to mention that he is soooooo tall, so a waiter can't help falling over his legs and splattering bolognese over his pristine white shirt. But it is nothing that a gormless shrug to the camera and a Persil wash tab won't solve.

Also the bathroom suite adverts again with Peter Crouch advertising them piss me right off. He had a very successful football career and Abbey does a lot in her own right so I cannot believe that it's anything other than greed they need the money.

And don't even get me started on the the crap Beckham is happy to flog, coffee, lager, crisps, whiskey...

I try to keep consumption to a bare minimum, but genuinely love Lucy & Yak, Lush and Snag Tights :D

Yankee Candle, Charlie Bighams, Bayliss & Harding, Crocs and Pandora can all jump in a skip.

I had a similar experience in Diptyque, it was in addition to the security guard following me around the shop like a hawk. I've never had this experience before in any store, perhaps I look similar to someone who's caused trouble in the past. Nevertheless, I now boycott the brand.

Was just about to say Lucy and Yak. There’s this superiority thing that people wearing Lucy and yak seem to have.

I detest Cafe Nero I wouldn't drink it again if they paid me. And Aussie shampoo/conditioner. I was curious about them and smelled every different scent. They were all vile. Yuck.

I also am noit into Telsa notbi9n g to do with Musk the cars all look the dame

Bath Oliver biscuits. John le Carre uses it in most of his books as the wankiest marker for 'people like us', 'upper middle class', etc.

Bugaboo
Range Rover
Pandora

I used to feel like this. Then one day I was (I can't remeber why) put in the position of having to replace my Samsung with an iPhone. I can't go back now. Hate using anything other than an iPhone. However I refuse to cave in to my husband's wishes and buy other Apple products. It's not so much a visceral reaction to the cult thing as the fact that I'm too lazy to navigate a different operating system.

I clearly don't belong on this thread though because I also love my Longchamp Le Pliage. I'm not in the UK and I was horrified to find out it's been hijacked as a school bag for teenagers - it doesn't have any such downmarket associations here but I fear that might come in time. I didn't see the appeal until I got one - I'd have been happy with a knock off, but you can actually tell the difference in quality with the real thing. I thought it wouldn't work for me because of the lack of interior pockets but somehow it keeps rebutting every challenge I give it and is easily my most practical bag. I keep telling myself I'm bored of it and putting it aside but then have to go back to it when other bags just don't work out to be so convenient and useful.

I can't shop at C&A. I quite often see nice things there and the prices are great, plus it practices vanity sizing to a frightening degree which is good for my self-esteem but my mother insisted on buying ALL of our clothes from C&A as children and I was so bored of it. I desperately wanted a bit of BHS like my friends. In the same way I still won't eat peas because she constantly tried to force them on me, I still reject C&A.

My mother's just like me though. She refuses to even look at a Zara Home - practically crosses the street to get a bit of distance if she has to walk past one, only because I like Zara Home and anything I like or do must of course be wrong. I think she'd have a stroke if she had to set foot in a Zara Home.

I agree on the Lindt though. I'm also a cheap chocolate girl. Dairy Milk or Galaxy will do.

Oh I do like The White Company but amn’t thin enough or rich enough to buy from there, sadly.

P Louise, looks tacky as hell and the customers all seem to fit a certain stereotype. I watched far too many tiktoks about it all on mat leave.

Tiffany & co. I think most of their designs look cheap and they are so overpriced.

The standard supermarket layout is fresh fruit and vegetables just inside the entrance. It gives the right impression of bright colours, healthy eating and it's all fresh today!

Dog/cat foods/toilet cleaners etc. are to be hidden, as shameful, in an aisle towards the back.

A further vote for Louis Vuitton. Its tiny repeat logo and brand colours look very cheap and somehow makes leather look like plastic.

Dr Beckmann, Calgon, Febreeze - basically any brand that has really bad dubbing on the adverts

@alloutofcareunits Two Nissan Cubes is truly unforgivable 😮

@Starlight1984 They’re like a shit 1960s TV sci-Fi version of the ‘Car of the Future’.

@estrogone 🙌🏻

And controversial yes but I don't like being in Lidl or Aldi supermarkets.
It's not that I especially like supermarkets but in Aldi or Lidl I feel crammed in and uncomfortable. I doubt this makes sense.
I also hate pound or 99p type shops.* * I think they are cheap for a reason. I'm no snob. Far from it but I think the stuff is overpriced even at the prices they are.

Läderach. It comes in slabs in a shop and they break bits off for you and make up a little bag of assorted flavours.

Warning from experience - you have to say in advance “I’d like to put together a bag worth about £15” otherwise you end up spending a lot more!

They have a shop in London I believe.