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?

Amazon (for the reasons listed by @Adoptthisdogornot). Three years now. 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.

Stopped going into French Connection when they rebranded as FCUK. Struck me as incredibly childish “oooh look its like a swear word “.

Poundstretcher - our local one sells lots of cleaning supplies and stuff for gardens. Whenever DM goes in I wait outside as I get all sneezy and itchy.

Lush - gives me a headache and makes me sneeze

I love the products I have been given from there

Lush and anywhere with Yankee Candles as they give me headaches.

Our local Asda
Rude staff
Self service till never works
Stupid layout of goods
Pay a pound to park then have to reclaim at the till - if you remember

Nah. I go elsewhere

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.

I also hate Lush, the smell hurts my head and dd had a Xmas job there and they were awful to work for.

Fat Face, White Stuff, Mint Velvet - all clothing made for women of a certain age who have essentially given up

Hollister - why is it so fucking dark and the girls so tiny, it's an unhealthy shopping experience

I'd prefer not to go to Tesco but it's closest to work so I have little choice. I get what people on here are saying about it.

Asda - always full of people screaming at kids named Jayden or kayden, I can never find anything in there it's always arse backwards

Zara. The Liverpool branch is like a jumble sale, and the staff are MEAN.

Hobbs.
Every time i walk in the staff say hello and then follow me around i assume to be ready incase i need anything but seriously - I know it's empty and they're not busy but just let me have a look.

TKMaxx. Time sink.

A couple of my friends are keen on TKMax, but I find it a mess and have never found anything I like. Primark don’t agree with it on any level including cheap crap clothes ending up in landfill. Not keen on Tesco.

Rarely use Amazon, but hard to avoid completely, we won’t have any spy devices, Alexa etc in our house

Lush - horrific smells and weird overbearing staff.
Primary- utter tat and the ceiling and walls always feels like they’re closing in on me.

Primark not primary ffs

Any shop with loud music or that looks like a jumble sale.

Most shops during the sales, it's only unsold tat from past years.

Pound shop and the like for everything that is not cheap decoration or craft for the kids - products are not cheaper because they are "a pound", quite the opposite actually.

Any shop pushing any ridiculous political agenda, I am buying goods, I don't need a lesson in moral.

@MozzchopsThirty I’ve stuff from FF, WS &MV ... I’ll agree I’m a certain age but I definitely haven’t given up

Beaverbrooks jewellers

They try to make it a whole big experience buy sitting you down at a table, offering you drinks and cake and then take ages to bring out the jewellery. I was in with my toddler and knew the bracelet I wanted to buy (advised the lady of this when I first went in) so it was quite frustrating that they wanted to roll the red carpet out and make a huge song and dance of it all whilst DD was getting really fed up. Maybe not the case in all of their stores though

Wetherspoons - rather die of thirst than give that wanker any of my money.

Disney store - over priced shite.

Smiggle - landfill.

I do love Primark, but I would never set foot in it on a Saturday!
Actually, I avoid shops like the plague at the weekend.

and shops in December too. Life is too short for that!

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I would agree with no hoods!

But would avoid Lush, Amazon and Laura Ashley (for their rubbish customer service)

My local mini asda for a few weeks.

I’d bought stuff and a 5p carrier bag, paid for it, got the receipt.

I was packing my bag ontop of the scales. Unknown to me, amidst the noise of other diy tills beeping, it had read a bar code through the carrier I was packing.

I walked off to be shouted at across the store that I’d not paid.

I was initially puzzled and they couldn’t explain why the machine had started reading barcodes as I hadn’t pressed the start button.(found out later it doesn't need to be pressed.)

They said its ok and I left. As I got home I realised it wasn't ok from my side.

Went back later and complained - about treatment and their machine.

‘Was it Michael’. I’m not on first name terms with staff there - but it sounded like he'd got form. They apologised.

Took me a while before I went back there.

Don't frequent Wetherspoons either - the owner, Brexit etc.

Amazon, because their customer service system was completely unable to handle a problem which couldn't be solved with a refund and it shouldn't be that hard to find a phone number to talk to a real live person.

Toys R Us for years because I worked there as a teen over Christmas when it was new to the UK and it has a permanent association with horror levels of chaos and stress in my mind.

Tesco for the reason a PP mentioned. They seem to saturate an area and bury all the local businesses. Plus the nearest one to us had rats romping on the river bank outside the front door and smelled like something had died in its ventilation for years. I strongly suspect those two issues to be connected.

Definitely Lush... stinks and you’re immediately pounced upon.
Phone shops... don’t get why it can take an hour to buy/upgrade a phone.
House of Fraser... grossly overpriced and stuck in a time warp.

Dorothy Perkins.

I bought a pair of black shoes for my mum's funeral 7 years ago. I only tried on the one and the assistant put the other in the box. Got home and realised there were two different sized shoes. I phoned up and explained I needed these shoes for a funeral and requested I get the correct sized shoe at another store as I wouldn't be able to get back to that specific store before the funeral. The reply was "no, because then that shop would have an odd pair of shoes"

Never been back since and every time I see the shop I get angry!

No chains I can think of, but I live in a small town with quite a few family run independent shops and quite a few of them have unwelcoming snooty staff. It has been quite a bugbear of mine for years now, how rude and lacking in basic courtesy these people are, so I don't shop locally, or at least, not in the small independent shops. Which is a shame because that is what we are encouraged to do but