Whats your least favourite shop?

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Your least favourite shop/shop you've had problems with. Shops you don't go in anymore.

Anything we can learn?

Sports Direct.
No customer service.

Mainly young staff who have no clue about customer service. Like Robots in there. Soulless place.

Clothes that aren't the size they are labelled, so its misleading.
Googled this and apparantely its quite common.
Don't want to give refunds easily when other shops do.

I was in the Skipton branch the other day - seemed clean and tidy enough.

I just can't cope with TK Maxx. I just don't get it. The clothing looks like a charity shop but is £££ because it's allegedly 'designer" (no one I've ever heard of) but looks like it was last in fashion in 1980s in the Middle East. The candles and make up are all in dirty broken boxes. I do sometimes find lovely Christmas decorations in there, but then the queue is half a mile long and I give up the will to live and walk out before buying them.

Thrifty! Good God, I just had a flash from the past! I used to hate going there with my mum, to be fair I once got bought and amazing Betty Boop jumper dress from there.

Brandy melville

6000 different versions of a white vest top only available in one size
8000 teenage girls queuing for 3 changing rooms

4 tills.
And a shit returns policy

One of my local Tescos. It's quite large but they've closed off most of the manned tills. They've shut off the original entrance that led into a covered shopping centre. Now you have to go out the street entrance and get wet if it’s raining.

They don't seem to want you to use a trolley and so can't get much stuff. The self service tills have a teeny tiny space to put your stuff after scanning that can fit about 4 apples.

They can't be bothered to staff it properly so some people blatantly shop lift.

It used to be Debenhams before it shut ages ago. Hardly any staff. Then the staff you found were always just talking to each other rather than serving customers. When you overheard them talking it was always slagging off their employers. Which might have been fair. But it was unprofessional and miserable.

Lidl.

Their company policy must be to make it as difficult as possible for the customer to pay in cash.

All their self-service tills seem to be cashless now and there is usually only 1-2 tills open where you can pay cash to the cashier. The queue is usually far too slow moving now. Hate it.

Screwfix - have been in a few times with DP and it’s literally the dullest place on earth.

To be fair, they’re entitled not to give refunds (unless faulty etc). Not that I agree with it or anything.

Primark I used to be able to tolerate it and get a few bits there. I find it unbearable now.

I think there is only 1 in the country. It’s not worth driving to, I promise!!

Sports direct - I don’t like the layout and avoid it as much as I can

ZARA. The quality went downhill years ago, and now they push their bloody app on everyone WHICH I AM NOT DOWNLOADING!!!

Morrison’s. I can’t even fully articulate why I hate it, but for some reason I find it really depressing. It’s not some kind of snobby thing, either - I get endless joy from Aldi, Home Bargains and umpteen other cheap discount stores. I just really hate Morrison’s.

Currys customer service is a fucking disgrace. In the last year I have had to take them to small claims court for a faulty tv, and do a charge back on my credit card for an item i never received. I wouldn't shop with them now even if their stuff was free, too much hassle.

The staff in my local Waitrose are really nice and friendly. It's a small store though, and in a small town, so they sort of get to know you if you're in there regularly.

We don't have a Lidl, but in the local Aldi they all seem stressed and under pressure. My hairdresser's husband is the manager there, and she reckons it's because he's probably a bastard to work for!

You should try the new one at Oxford Circus - it is all underground - I dread to think what the fire risk assessment looks like.....

I also used to despise being dragged round Littlewoods as a child! For some reason it was uniquely depressing. I also hated it when we had to go in BHS.

Another now defunct chain that used to depress me as a kid: Bejam. Endless aisles of chest freezers. Trailing round after my parents as they stocked up on frozen burgers and bulk packs of coley fillets.

Urban Outfitters - daughter loves it but I feel like I’m in a jumble sale and get confused.

WHSmith - it’s like they have the lights on the dimmest possible setting.

Aldi - I just can’t get on with it at all. Team Lidl.

B&M as their only checkout open is the one in the kiosk and some of their kiosks tills don’t have a scanning gun. So if buy anything large, the staff have to manually enter the barcode.

Primark - glorified jumble sale. Staff spend ages folding clothes to be unfolded, chucked onto the floor etc later

Aldi - do they have any staff that pick up cardboard off the floor and displays? My friend works for another supermarket and clearing the cardboard shelf ready packaging (SRP) plus the plastic trays that big pots of yoghurt is something they do constantly. The other day I went past the baked beans and counted 20 cardboard trays which were empty! Also the mixed cases of pop and squash is going to result in someone injured. As customers pick a flavour which isn’t on the top level so take one from underneath. Result 20 bottles underneath 50 bottles.

I despise TK Maxx. I like the house stuff but I can’t be doing with the rest of it.
I also hate H&M. There’s never anything in it. So messy and chaotic.

God yeah Screwfix & Halfords. So dull.

Tesco, because of that ad of Santa waving his vaxpass. Popularised tyranny.

Lush. I like their products, but I dislike their politics and their pushy staff.

Card Factory where I live. You cannot go past anyone as aisles are narrower than a pushchair. It surely must fail fire safety. Yet a retail park, has a large one where you can (if you could) do the can can kicks in the aisles

Love a Range/Home bargains trip, although the latter is hit and miss product wise depending on location of store.

Not keen on TK MAXX...
clothing is a bit jumble sale ish....a mish mash of stuff that's all shoved on rails.