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?

@Cherrysoup you can refuse to allow badger trapping on your land and access for the badger murderers to carry out the killing of a protected species. I have on our land. Its not difficult, you just have to refuse permission for the traps and the shooters.

I dont like Caffè Nero, but I drink coffee there precisely because they take that stance about the badger cull

I today now boycott M and S, and have done with all other high street chains or businesses who are "woke" or won't give women privacy, safety and dignity in changing rooms, etc

I boycott Amazon, Starbucks, Nestle, Phillip Green empire shops, Wetherspoons, for obvious reasons.

I dont want to shop at any of the others so it's not really boycotting them if I don't.

I do shop in our small Co op, co op has the best ethical stance for a supermarket.

But on the whole I use the local shops in my local town.

If we use them they survive, if we don't, they die

@Catmaiden I wonder though, how convinced are the farmers that the badger/TB link is scientifically correct? I know some dairy farmers have given up after losing so many animals. Damned if they do, damned if they don’t?

Well, I'm convinced of the science being flawed, and I'm a scientist as well as a landowner/farmer now ( not a biologist admittedly) . And a landowner in a cull zone, and I'm not the only one to refuse, but " they" keep very quiet about that!

Shops without windows, like B&Q, make me feel ill.

i love lush

Lush - Overpriced products, patronising staff that tick off my social anxiety when they pounce the second I'm in the door. Also have extremely sensitive sense of smell so get a migraine just walking past.
I actually support their political views, am a big supporter of the hunt sabs
Tesco - one of the only supermarkets I like but I tend to stick to Lidl/Aldi for basics as we grow most of our own food
Can't stand Morrison's, can never find anything I need in there.
Won't enter a certain River Island branch due to going for an interview a few years ago and they hadn't specified I would have to work Xmas eve on the job description, got to the interview and the opening line was 'just so you know you will have to work Xmas Eve'. I left but not before asking why they couldn't just specify that on the description to begin with instead of wasting my time.
Staff in there are still rude to me.
I like TOPSHOP but I find some of the pricing ridiculous.
H&M is a favourite.
Body shop is pricey but I love it
TKMaxx is by far my favourite shop, but then I'm a big shopper/wearer of weird 'fashion' clothes
DP went into Pandora once to buy me a present and they assumed he couldn't afford the £100 necklace he asked for.

Hate Urban Outfitters/Anthropologie due to pretentious, overpriced crap. Which is a shame because they do have a few things I like.
Agree WHSMITH is stupidly overpriced also and no good quality at that.

A lot of independent shops near me give an uninviting glare when I enter. Then I flash my work badge and they realise who I work for and are magically over the moon to see me

Our local Post Office is forcibly being closed down and moving to WH Smith in the shopping precinct. Despite public objections the move has been approved. God knows how it will work out, original Post Office has a ticket system and you sit and wait until your number is shown on the screen (plenty of seating available) - can't see this in happening in the new location.

Pret A Manger. Never forgiven them for the Seaseme sandwich bread being unlabelled.

Wetherspoons, obv. I used to go there a lot. Dyson's (hypocritical Brexiter selling crap vacuum cleaners).

For me it's Ann Summers. I can't ever just browse, I'm set upon as soon as I walk in, then if I take an interest in anything in the shop I'm offered a demo or some advice!

Mine is also Tescos. I was in a cafe next door to a tesco once and as I left a large group of people all walked out the tesco's door at the same time. The alarm went off, and the security guard stopped me and insisted I went "back inside". I told him I hadn't been inside yet and he got very aggressive.

I was going to be late for work so I started to leave, he corned me, physically stopping me from leaving and called the police. I was arrested and searched in full public view. I have anxiety and ended up throwing up all over myself because of the stress. I almost lost my job too for being 2 hours late.

When I tried to complain to the store manager I got a lifetime ban from the branch and no apology despite them acknowledging I'd never been in the store the previous day.

I'll never step foot in any one of their stores again and neither will any of my family and friends.

TK Max. It’s literally a jumble sale. I’m not one for designer labels anyway and I’m not going to root through rails and rails of crap for a 90s Versace t shirt on offer for £30

I have found my tribe LUSH. I can smell it from 100 m. DH says it must be a woman thing as he loves it, but then his sense of smell is terrible
Sainsbury’s, it always seems disorganised and overpriced.

Not a shop but eBay. I rarely used it in the past but the last experience I had was awful. Sold a couple of items to the same person, I’d said no returns. Buyer messaged to say they didn’t fit. I’d put the sizes in the subject and description so as far as I was concerned, it wasn’t really my issue. Buyer falsely claimed the items were not as described. Long story short, he’s had a refund and not bothered to return the items to me and eBay are doing f* all about it.

As for a proper store, John Lewis. Irrational reasons including my sister that I don’t get on with works there. More rational reasons including the fact that they charge stupid prices for items you can get for much cheaper elsewhere. Bought underwear from there a while back, spent nearly £100. 2 washes later and it fell apart. Daylight robbery springs to mind when I think of JL!

The Entertainer - opened a new shop near us with an upstairs but no access for people with disabilities. They said that it was because of planning restrictions and that if anyone wanted anything they'd happily fetch it.
After some publicity they have now managed to install a lift.

Also, I know its not a shop but, won't have anything Sky or Rupert Murdoch related in the house. Odious man!

@FurryButts

"......offered a Demo"

LOL, the mind boggles - I can't stop laughing

Neon sheep. Openly ripping off Herdy products this season. I know Herdy stuff is a bit pricey, but it's a small company producing original designs that have been very successful (particularly in the north). So it's very galling when a large company, mainly based in the south thinks it can just steal their IP and nobody would notice. (Neon Sheep is owned by the same guy as Mountain Warehouse)

I mean these designs are completely different, right?!

Lush, absolutely stinks. I can't walk past one without feeling a bit sick let alone go in.
Many of the big supermarkets -overpackaged junk.
Primark - crap clothes, too cheap, badly made, adding to piles of textile waste.
The Works (and similar shops) - a load of tat which no one needs and will end up most likely being given as gifts and not used and thrown away!

The chaotic and disorganised sports shop in the retail parks. Think it's called sport soccer or sports direct. Absolutely hate everything about, everything coated in horrible discount stickers and nothing laid out in any sort of order.

And M&S.

Lush for me too, every single time I go in I'm approached and when I say I'm just having a look, I still get questioned asked if I've been ere before, if I use any lush things, who I'm buying for and given their opinions on any product I dare to look in the direction of. Absolutely does my head in

Last time I went I had to leave because they just wouldn't leave me alone

As of yesterday, M & S

Where else does nice sandwiches for lunch? I'll be taking my cash elsewhere from now on.

What's happened to M&S?

Body Shop - because I like to browse in peace.
Lush - not for the smell, but because they always try to engage my five year-old in putting a bath bomb into a bowl of water and then she screeches because I won't buy her one. Why not give the child the bathbomb to take home if you are going to waste it in a bowl of water, I'd be so impressed i'd probably spend more, instead of leaving empty handed with a screeching five year old under my arm.

@KeepYourCup, M&S allow men into women's changing rooms.

@TerfTalk, Aldi sarnies are nice and much cheaper than M&S.

Lush as I disagree with a lot of the conpanys politics.
M&S due to mixed sex changing rooms
Wine companies an ex works for