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

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OhDeari · 30/10/2019 09:08

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?

OP posts:
sashh · 30/10/2019 09:28

ASDA.

I couldn't park in the disabled bays for people without badges parked there, I went to park in the taxi bay with the intention of telling staff on the desk.

Someone banged on my window, when I wound it down I was told to, 'move your fucking car', I didin';t, I went ion to speak to a manager, the employee told me to 'fuck off' again and quite proudly told me his name was 'John'.

Her was so aggressive I was in tears, I went to the service desk and spoke to an assistant manager who did nothing about 'John' but told me she had been on a course s o she knew what it was like to be disabled.

I have never shopped there since.

Primark I'm conflicted on, I don't like lots of things about them but they are the only place I know with a priority till so I don't need to queue or wait.
I did make a written complaint but I didn't get a reply.

fotheringhay · 30/10/2019 09:29

Ann Summers - a shop that appears to want to detach women from their genuine sexuality and make it all about men's visual enjoyment.

And there are much better toys online Grin

recklessruby · 30/10/2019 09:29

Another one avoiding TK Max. Looks like a jumble sale the way the clothes are displayed.
Our local Tesco is to be avoided. Narrow aisles and no space is claustrophobic and staff are also trying to put great cages of food out with no space.
It doesn't have much food I like and the vegan food is so limited.

Pardonwhat · 30/10/2019 09:30

Lush.
Funders of countryside terrorism and hatred for British police.
Also they’re products are shit.

echt · 30/10/2019 09:30

I don't know if these shops even exist now:

Foyles on Charing Cross Road: long running labour dispute in the 70s. Always felt like crossing a picket line. Shit service.
Magnet kitchens. Long running labour dispute.
Lush: the smell is vile.

Bobthefisherghoulswife · 30/10/2019 09:30

Aldi, but only 2 of them, there are 4 (5th opening soon) in the city I live in, but the original store (first one to open here) gives me a panic attack everytime I walk in. The other one just feels disorganised. There's no logical reason I can think of as they all have pretty much the same layout...

edwinbear · 30/10/2019 09:31

B&Q. Even driving past one gives me the rage, the signage is rubbish, I end up wandering around aimlessly looking for what I need and if you manage to locate a member of staff to ask for help, they just shrug at you, grunt and walk off.

QueenWhatevs · 30/10/2019 09:33

No particular companies, but one particular branch of Dunelm and one particular branch of Next cause my (usually charming) DC to turn into feral, snarling beasts. It doesn't matter what time of day, whether they've napped, eaten, any of it. Its always hideous. Maybe its the lighting? Can't go there any more.

1984isnow · 30/10/2019 09:34

Lush, aswell!

The first time I ever went in, I was just looking for something a friend recommended. I'm normally one to just get in and out with what I need, don't like dawdling and 'browsing' at stuff I have no intention of buying.

2 minutes in, I was having my hand gently caressed and washed by a member of staff. I just stood there like a limp rag, trying to avoid eye contact.

I didn't buy what I was initially after, but I came away with a big bottle of It's Raining Men. It was nice, but I avoid going now as I just don't have the time for this!

Also avoid a Boots store I used to work in. Everyone quietly despised each other, until someone would leave, then that person would suddenly be treated like a twin separated at birth, by everyone. Went in a few times, and the fake smiles would hurt my face so I stopped.

Grumpbum123 · 30/10/2019 09:34

Aldi our local one is chaotic and you struggle to get a trolley around due to empty pallets left in the middle of the floor.
Lush for all the above reasons
2 boutiques in town who questioned why I was in there as I looked like someone who couldn’t afford to shop there. (I totally could)

Shinyletsbebadguys · 30/10/2019 09:35

Not me but my DP for a man who reacts very little to most things has a deep abiding vendetta against Domino's pizza.

Four years ago they lost his pizza. He was refunded but this started his ire. This was them compounded by three weeks later him going into buy a bottle of coke and being ignored for twenty minutes at the till. (No idea why he was buying coke there ...it's ruinously expensive and the man has been known to complain about the price of tescos coke).

That was it , an official boycott and I've heard about this about 60 times in our relationship. (Although full disclosure I have been known to remind him of it because it's funny...he so rarely gets irate and he knows what I am doing because I don't hide the fact I'm laughing)

He has actually made the dc and I promise we will never order Domino's in this house (of course ds2 is 3 so he is probably safe on that one)

Ds1 and I however are assholes and could entirely be relied on to order Domino's if we could afford it (we can't so we don't ).

After spending twenty minutes in the car with him last week repeating this story and getting crosser and crosser (I probably didn't help by suggesting 4 years was probably enough time to let this go....apparently not) , I threatened to order it for his birthday next year.

He was truly horrified and insisted he would throw it out (this man never ever throws food away , a few weeks ago he grimaced through an entire tin of soup he hated and could barely eat so it didn't go to waste)

I swear his last words are going to be "Bloody Domino's "

Soubriquet · 30/10/2019 09:36

I love lush...but I agree about TK Max.

I have never found anything I wanted to buy and I just got more and more frustrated searching through.

I don’t want to hunt for stuff I want them nice and easy into find

FrenchBoule · 30/10/2019 09:36

Amazon as well. Most of stuff I needed was from China and “ your order will be delivered in 6 weeks”. No thank you.

charm8ed · 30/10/2019 09:37

TK Max-too stressy.

Wheat2Harvest · 30/10/2019 09:37

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.

Hoppinggreen · 30/10/2019 09:38

Lush, due to the smell and wokeness
Primark because I just can’t be bothered with it

justmyview · 30/10/2019 09:38

Starbucks, because they charged rescuers for water after the 9/11 attacks

www.snopes.com/fact-check/starbucks-911-water-charge/

SmileyGiraffe · 30/10/2019 09:38

Not a shop as such, but I refuse to go to Wetherspoons.

SleepingStandingUp · 30/10/2019 09:39

Max Speilmans, but only the one in town.
Trying to print photos using WiFi like I always do, but it wasn't working. Assistant comes over, tells me I'm doing it wrong. I tell her I always do it like this. She insists it won't work as well and to use Blue Tooth. I do as she suggests. It still doesn't work. She says"oh, I don't know then" and just wanders off!!
I went to Boots

Gonetoget · 30/10/2019 09:39

Tesco’s for me too.
You get the impression they’re doing you a favour letting you shop there, it’s a very weird British attitude and totally unwarranted for a very mediocre supermarket.
I think they’ve had to up their game in recent years, but the attitude still permeates.

Hoppinggreen · 30/10/2019 09:39

And Boux Avenue, I just want a bra not an “experience”

Reallybadidea · 30/10/2019 09:40

I don't go in Mistral anymore. Went in there a few weeks post partum wanting to treat myself to something nice and was looking at the blouses. An assistant came up behind me and said "yes, they're nice aren't they, unfortunately we don't have the large size in stock, but they come up quite big". Whadda bitch and I was only a size 12

ChrisPrattsFace · 30/10/2019 09:40

Lush.
Need I say more.

ILoveCrunchyAutumnLeaves · 30/10/2019 09:40

Tesco, I have watched every local shop disappear due to them. They even had a hairdresser and a pound section when a local pound store opened to get rid of the competition.

Then Tracey/Sharon/Barbara on the tills comment "oh you're in here again" & "you're in here everyday you" gives me the rage.

I now go to Morrison's in another area to avoid the comments.

TheSandman · 30/10/2019 09:40

Lush. Makes my eyes water. It stinks.

McDonalds. The embodiment for me of homogeneous, corporate greed dolloping out bland crap with a regulation cheery smile and ruthless disregard for anything other than profit. Like Disney but greasier.

Wetherspoons. Not giving that c**t any of my money.

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