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?

Overdone like hollister. They were both the white fox of the 2000's.

My immediate thought when I read the OP was Ford, Morrisons and Radley...

Ford - I have no idea why I dislike the brand, suspect some past snobbery but who knows. I actually own a Ford now (it was not my decision) and it's perfectly fine but I still feel like I've let myself down by driving it 🙄

Morrisons - don't really know why as I have never shopped there properly but it just seems so dated. Reminds me of the old Safeway chain - very 1990s

Radley - the dog (shudder).

Yes was going to say exactly this - SO many brands that are some pseudo-homespun or edgy sounding "X & Y" name, simply because that's what everyone else is doing, it's so boring, try something different! You can basically design your own - one name (usually the first) must be kind of traditional or posh sounding, the other name must be more rough/rustic, foreign or just totally random. Lucy & Yak perfect example.

Wilkins & Boot
Fortescue & Barrel
Perkins & Storm

Or it's two cutesy upper middle class baby names
Oscar & Tilly
Flora & Finn

etc etc I just made these up but I bet they all already exist, purveying poncy spice mixes, bubble bath, craft beer or eyewateringly expensive kidswear.

Those tacky Victoria's Secret shops you get in large shipping centres with their Pink range, lounge wear and smelly shit. The cost to material ratio is shit and they've made their brand by selling the dream of physical beauty and pretty much nothing else.

Yes, I hate Waitrose. I love John Lewis but Waitrose could go into administration and disappear into the ether for all I care.

Everything I have tried is just average or unpleasant. Did a big Waitrose shop over Christmas and the food was not great, especially for price. It was that bad, that a year later I am still disappointed! We even had random pieces of plastic in one item.

plus I’m the type of person to buy into the marketing and limited edition products etc, I just feel like M&S does it better and the quality and variety is generally okay for the price.

I can only call them Cash Cows. I actually have no idea what they cost or how efficient they are, that’s just their name in my head.

Nissan Juke (old bitch i used to work with had one)
Nissan's in general (Qashquai is the only car I've ever been carsick in)
Vauxhall Meriva (late partner hated them so I hate them too!!)
Toyota - all models (usually being driven very badly when I encounter them.)
QuickBooks - (hate the advert and had to choose Xero instead who now have an even more irritating advert out!)
Lush - (the smell!!)

Victoria's Secret

Just nasty

Ah yes, I feel the same about Ford. I also drive one but not by choice and will be changing it as soon as I can. I don't think it's entirely snobbery because the brand I prefer is Skoda. Like an iPhone, having had a couple of Skodas I just don't like anything else as much. However with Ford it's mostly due to a very underreported set of events related to the much praised EcoBoost engine - also known (but not well enough) as the EcoBoom. A frightening number of these 'award winning' engines have given up and died at low mileage and sometimes in dangerous circumstances with no reasonable explanation. I add that this didn;t happen to me but did to a family member and I ended up involved to help him. Ford has behaved atrociously and are washing their hands over it, denying all knowledge - even though there's enough information out there to be able to class it as a known fault. There's no repair possible, only a new engine, with no goodwill discounts given or acknwledgement of the obvious - that no-one should need a new engine at 30,000 miles (sometimes even less). I also know Watchdog has been contacted a number of times, a class action group was in process too but that all went quiet. My Ford is reliable and I've had them in the past and been happy enough but since I started digging into this I'll never again give that company my money (mine is old and I didn't buy it, it was sort of force-given to me).

You like a man who does Nazi salutes and says that the UK is on the brink of civil war?

Yes to X&Y brands.

I like White Company - particularly their fragrances, but I got piled on here by people sniffily saying you can buy dupes for a fraction of the price from Etsy. I'm not going to buy stuff unseen (or should that be unsmelt?) from randoms on the Internet, and the cheaper stuff generally smells like Zoflora or synthetic.

At the other end, I love a good high end scented candle but nowadays they all seem to want to smell like my granny's ancient old house which had little of note added to it since about 1975, in the interests of not being appealing to a basic bitch like me :D

I would have written this until two years ago when I got a coat from them which is brilliantly warm!

Too many to list.

Same for flowers!!

I believe thr Gnomes of Zurich favour Cadbury's Miniatures.

😂 Happy to have been of service.

@mumofoneAloneandwell Glad that I'm not the only cheap chocolate date around here!

PG Tips.

Their tea[to me] tastes like it was scraped off the bottom of the factory floor.
I dont have sophisticated taste buds, so presumably others think it is great.

Land Rover/Range Rover, whatever the big cars are there everyone seems to have. And most don't seem to know how to drive/park BuT I'Ve gIt a BiG cAr... The ones who think it makes them look well off when they never go further than the supermarket in the next town over.

Love White Company oils and Champneys reed diffusers, Slumber is a lovely smell and lasts for ages! 🙊

Hate, hate, hate. Double hate. Loathe entirely! Lidl & Aldi. I'd rather pay more elsewhere. There's something about those stores, too bright, too much going on, too many trolleys abandoned in the narrow aisles as people take of to browse at the other end, the queues, the absolutely-lost-on-me where the queue should start if I was first to line up.. just nope.

White Fox, PLouise etc, all the tiktok'y trends aimed at kids which cost a small fortune and the make up stuff that makes them grow up too quick (admittedly I did buy an official Stanley cup for my niece last Christmas...)

Anything promoted by influencers. Mrs Hinch... As much as I love the scent of the cleaning products, I can't stand that it feels like I'm supporting her when all I really want it my home to smell nice.

Ok, that's plenty. Time for a cuppa to wind down with.

Never noticed this before but you’re so right!

Thanks, I was trying to remember who'd done the ad with the toddlers holding teddy bears dressed in bondage gear! Their parent company also owns Gucci (wanted a couple of their lipsticks) and YSL (wanted one of their perfumes.) Decided I could do without any of those things as none of them are getting my money. I found similar but cheaper versions of the lipsticks I wanted from a brand called 3ina (from looking up green lipstick!)

I've been boycotting The Body Shop for being rude to JK Rowling and Lush for saying they'd kick out anyone wearing a 'woman, adult human female' t-shirt. May or may not have stickered the ones in Peterborough and Cambridge. <whistles>

Loath Innocent, especially since they sold out to Coca Cola, ditto Costa. And I refuse to step foot in anywhere 'dog friendly'. Which is very limiting in this god forsaken hell hole, because nearly everywhere is except Wetherspoons, Gregg's and the Tesco café (which is the other side of town.)

Another who hates Tesla and Dyson for the same reasons as everybody else and ditto Wetherspoons.

I have never bought or used an Apple product having decided (either rationally or irrationally on the basis of those I've met) that people who do are insufferable twats. I avoid companies with annoying twee names too, no matter how good the products might be.

I do like my Burberry (coat, bag, scarves, jumpers) though.

Dominos pizza where the man is shaving his crotch and the pizza arrives.

Crown jewels, man shaving crotch again - slight theme here.

McDonald's woman picking sauce off her skirt! why is that considered tasty!

KFC with the drumstick in the gravy lake, and the bird dirty burger under the napkin.

The Indeed ad on channel 4 - what is a salary?

Tesco have Fred & Flo stuff! (Baby clothes, toiletries, etc.) Makes me twitch, but Tesco is the only decent sized shop where I live, and where I can get baby stuff other than food/nappies/wipes/bubble bath.
(Sainsbury's are more sensible, it's either Little Ones or plain old TU.)

No way! Jo Malone has such an inspiring origin story from a British female entrepreneur. The scents are also really gorgeous. Give them another go!

We used to have an excellent 99p shop round my area. Everything genuinely was great quality, even big items like rugs. Gutted when it closed down.

Poundland is ludicrous these days and should be called Good Luck Trying To Find Anything For A Pound-land.