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?

I won't shop in the Arcadia group shops (Topshop, Topman, Wallis, Evans, Burton, Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins and Outfit) because of Philip Green.
I also won't shop in TK Max because I can never find anything in there!

Goodnight FFS. When did this start happening? I usually only use the food hall so hadnt noticed.

If they want to be inclusive surely the answer is lockable, individual changing cubicles, not allowing men into women's space?

I despair.

Every member of staff I my local Greggs are smiley and happy

This is true of my local Greggs too, and my local Tesco, which is always spotlessly clean.

The neighbouring town's Tesco were also wonderful when my friend's brother, who had worked for them for two decades, committed suicide. It was they who alerted the family to something being wrong when he didn't show up for work, they helped towards funeral costs, they did all they could to support.

M&S food hall, their clientele are condescending and self-centered and their checkout assistants are overly familiar.

Lush.

I actually don't mind the smell.

I do mind:

• shop assistants who take you hostage

• massively, massively overpriced goods

• cynical use of controversial, "edgy" campaigns to get free publicity. It's not just aggressive and wokier-than-thou and poorly thought out. It's also a disingenuous, cold-eyed marketing strategy.

I notice their profits are down...

Any shop that defaults to self service tills - so WH Smith and the M&S food department have both lost me.

I second Primark in Manchester. Too hectic and messy.

It's pointless going to TKMax with something specific in mind, particularly clothing. But it does have some really great stuff.
Here in Edinburgh, we have some traditional buildings that have been made into department stores. They're really not conducive to it, and are a pain in the tits to navigate. M&S and Debenhams, I'm looking at you.
And it amazes me that WH Smith is still in business. Claire's should just have reasonable pricing, instead of all their ludicrous multi-buy offers.

Flannels. I refuse to go into an overpriced clothes shop with a name that might as well be Washcloth.

I always find Greggs a bit shit; the sausage rolls are often cold, and they run out of food really quickly. It's not only at lunchtime that people might grab a sandwich.

I find Sainsbury's really overpriced.

Subway food always looks revolting, but then my kids love it.

Apricot, after a staff member at bluewater put her head round the curtain while I was standing in my underwear in the changing room and looked at me in the mirror, making eye contact, with no warning and I certainly hadn’t asked. I expect privacy.

I boycotted the village bakery for 10+ years because snooty unhelpful cow refused to cut a flapjack in half for me. It was for my two small DCs who were sitting in the car outside waiting. No other customer in shop, so not busy at all. “I’d rather not” she told me!

Also boycotted a corner shop where the total tosser behind the counter started slating working mothers to another old bloke as he was serving me. (Apparently women were taking all the men’s jobs when they should all be home with the children) I was buying nappies midweek at about 8pm after a hard day at work and to this day do not know why I didn’t just tell him to stick them up his arse. Actually yes I do - it would have meant a 30-minute round trip to the nearest other shop that sold nappies and I was exhausted.

Tesco. I worked for them, and we parted on such bad terms I expected to be banned from the premises. After all, I'd just caught them shorting about 1200 people's wages.

Lush.

The smell even from outside is overpowering and I've never been inside a single one.