to ask if there's any shop you avoid for a particular reason?

[OhDeari]

For me, it's Tescos.

Simple reason - I was on my way home from work last winter (office job, so well dressed) and popped into local large Tesco to pick up something. Was innocently wandering around when I got a tap on the shoulder - it appeared to be a staff member (so having my headphones in) didn't hear what he said, so just replied, 'No, I'm fine thanks'. He taps again and I took headphones out and he said 'We have a NO HOODS POLICY in the store'. I took my hood down but was secretly seething - FFS, it was sub zero outside and I'd just come inside.

So I'll do everything I can to avoid Tescos.

Any others?

Primark - can't cope with the chaos, don't want to buy junk clothes that are basically pollution and made to chuck after a few wears.

Lush- due to their recent police smear campaign. But I never shopped there before anyway, simply because it stinks. 🤢
I've heard great things about their shampoo bars but I won't be swayed!

@Greeper Haha yup. Maybe a sneaky look at the cleavage area with your already bruised apples

I won't go in The Bodyshop because I don't like being pounced on within seconds of walking through the door,then when I say I'm just looking,being followed around the shop. I also dislike Superdrug because there are always massive queues,never enough staff on the tills,and the way the checkout area is arranged in my local one is stupid. There is a huge pillar that blocks out the view of the two middle tills,so you can't see the cashiers. If they are calling you over,you can't see them,and if you have difficulty hearing in a noisy environment (as I do) you cannot hear them either!

Primark - can't cope with the chaos, don't want to buy junk clothes that are basically pollution and made to chuck after a few wears.
That’s the only new clothes I can afford.
I have some bits that have lasted well over 10 years. You just have to avoid the “high fashion” stuff.

I Flatly refuse to step inside anything that's owned by Mike Ashley

Detest the man with a passion I never knew I had!!

I also try to avoid Boots if possible,ever since a member of staff was rude to me several years ago. I asked a lady on the till if they had any more of a particular shampoo as the space on the shelf for it was empty. She said 'Sorry,I can't leave my till,can you ask that man over there,behind the perfume counter. He'll be able to go and look for you'. I did as directed,and wished I hadn't bothered. The man behind the perfume counter said in a stroppy tone of voice 'Why are you asking ME about shampoo? This is a perfume counter'. I replied that the lady behind the till had told me to. He replied 'Well,she had no right to. I can't help you I'm afraid'. I walked out and bought my shampoo elsewhere.

"Anywhere that allows dogs in. It gives the distinct impression that they couldn't care less about customers who don't want dogs around them in a communal area for whatever reason - dislike, fear, allergy, religious or cultural Yes."

Should people who need service dogs just not go into shops then?

I won't shop in Iceland because 25 years ago our local(then) shop refurbished and when it opened I couldn't get through the tills with the pushchair! Literally, the tills were so close together it was not easy to even get a trolley through, and I had to unload the trolley, push it through the till, then push the pushchair to the 'wide/wheelchair aisle' (with its own queue, normally, so had to 'Sorry, sorry' my way through that too)) and head back down to where my shopping was being scanned through the original till...
Boycotted the whole lot, since then. I thought it was a fire hazard - as in, we couldn't get out in the event of a fire in the back of the shop.

Same reason I won't shop in Sports Direct - the amount of very flammable clothing makes me nervous. I need to get out - i had the same feeling in a huge warehouse/shop in Singapore full of nylon and manmade fibres. One spark - and the exits weren't visible - would have been a death trap.

I haven't been in Benneton since the mid-eighties because I didn't like their adverts. I'm not sure it still exists though. Similarly I didn't go to French Connection for years because the FCUK thing is childish.

Debenhams. The perfume is overwhelming and the shop is always too hot.

Homebase
Dear god the stock is utter shite, Everytime I go in whatever I see I imagine it in a charity shop or a landfill. Hideous...I just wont go.

WH Smiths simply for screwing me everytime I go to the airports and I'm forced by law to throw away drinks and if thirsty buy their overpriced stuff...Hope it goes BUST!!

Russell & Bromley after a member of staff lied to me about a pair of boots I was about to buy. He said that style would "never go into the sale" and lo and behold - 2 days later they did. They refused to honour the sale price and were generally really unhelpful about it when I emailed them. I'd never shop there again simply because of the rubbish customer service I received.

I hate CEX, every store I've been in has an awful smell 🤮 Lush also, I love the products but the staff are sooo overbearing, nobody wants that when they're just trying to buy a soap its so awkward

Agree that I don't go into shops that allow pet dogs. Service animals are fine obviously but I walk past anywhere that proclaims itself to be "dog friendly".

A particularly charity shop that wouldnt let me return something for money back, i had spent £12, so ended up buying clothes that came to more than £12, as we were in a stand off about the whole situation. They would rather lose money that lose face.
i dont go there anymore.

CEX has the monopoly on sticky carpets and dodgy staff! My ds2 loves that shop.. maybe it's more of a teenager / young adult place than for 54 year olds!
Most shops are grim these days.

Asda or Morrisons. Their stores tend to be filthy or a little grotty/run down.

Cafes In M+S. Every nerve tangling from the stress of shuffling along like convicts collecting their dinner. Then feelingike u have 20 mins to eat and fuck off out of it. And I have felt the same in nearly all uve stepped into.
Hate costa and Starbucks because of the same feeling. Rather go into our local caf and have a proper cup of scald

Lidl because it's dirty, cramped, and overrated. The cheap versions of brand names always seem to be a bit wrong, there's not enough of a range and the queues are massive . It reminds me of Tesco as it was in the mid 70s

Clinton's I try to avoid - at the till 'would you like to help people with cancer'. That makes me mad. Of course I would like to help, but not by buying a pen with a small amount of profit going to cancer charities.

I had this today, was asked if I wanted to buy a pen for breast cancer awareness

Lush seems to be the winner.

Lush and The Body Shop, both because of pushy staff who pounce as soon as you walk in, and then follow you around.

Morrisons -I avoid where possible. Dirty, run down stores and often poor quality out of date fresh food, fruit and veg. Fish and meat counters ok though.

Lush for their lack of support for British farmers.

Also cafe Nero for refusing to use milk from inside badger cull zones and having petitions on their counters against the badger culls

Lush - the anti police campaign.