Whats your least favourite shop?

[girlfriend44]

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.

TK Maxx - like a jumble sale.

🤣🤣 64,678 steps and counting.

Littlewoods was such a soulless place. Bland, stuffy, pale grey and blue everywhere. Hardly surprising it failed although I expect there were other reasons besides. It never seemed to change with the times and try to improve its image. The Index catalogue shops were OK though. Thrifty was dowdy polyester central. My Mum would insist on going there every time we went into town - beats me why.

Those of you oop north and in Scotland may remember Tip-Top, a kind of second grade Superdrug. The branches I used to go in - not by choice - both had the same lurid green-yellow carpet and strong chemical stench. Horrible shop.

Places which focus on make up and “beauty”. Dull as ditchwater.

My local Morrison's. It starts with the car park, dirty and littered with overgrown bushes. Inside is really grubby, it looks like the floor hasn't been cleaned properly. The self service tills are filthy. Surly staff, the people on the deli look like they're doing you a favour. I've stopped going there as I'd rather travel to the other side of town to a different supermarket.

Love both Lewis and Waitrose, so civilised

But you have self service tills! We all have to queue behind people with 14506 items and refuse to let you ahead when you have a pack of mushrooms and some cheese coleslaw.

Low ceilings for me. All our local Morrisons feel uber oppressive and I also hate going in them.

Iceland. Horrible, crap quality products. Poor range of everything but frozen foods. Not even particularly cheap. Ghastly shops. I have no idea how they stay in business.

Co-op. Inferior to Tesco Express & Sainsbury’s Local in every way, and far more expensive. The one thing in their favour is that they are ubiquitous in my part of the country (East Midlands) so I do sometimes shop there for convenience, but only if there isn’t a choice.

TK Max - massive jumble sale
Lidl - fruit is nasty with flies
Mobile phones and vapes shops - scream crime
Nail bars - saw it in Corrie and now assume everyone who works in one has been trafficked

IKEA
TKMAX

Lloyds the chemist. Very bad experiences verging on the dangerous.

Love your vicious vendetta! I do that kind of thing. I scowl and look in at the door with a snooty expression if shop staff have been rude. Somehow I don’t think they care…

Take that!🤣

This thread has made me chuckle even though I am miserable with a bad back. Thanks @girlfriend44

Wanted to add for those that have said Hollister - I took my dad into one once when I was a student and it’s so dark he said he couldn’t see anything and as a joke dirt of stumbled his way round the shop & asked the staff, who resembled a teenage moth, if he was in the men’s or women’s as he couldn’t see 😂 the accommodating staff member literally then helped him round the shop thinking he was somewhat blind. Which he isn’t at all

M&S Food. Just so up itself for a place that sells wall to wall ready meals, the likes of which you can get in any standard supermarket for 1/3rd of the price. Proper ingredients are a sideline. Grim.

Give me Waitrose any day. The ready meals there are only about 10% of the shop, the rest of the place being real food for people who know how to cook.

Asda, shite products
sports direct for all the reasons quoted above
fabricland cheap nastiest fabric and the scariest shop manager I’ve ever encountered

coop is outrageously overpriced and in many rural communities it’s the only shop, but the pizzas are really good.

Next - generic boring stuff, wtf is with the prices, absolutely laughable for the quality. Furniture is even funnier to me….800 quid for a mdf wardrobe 😂 sorry what!

Today in Boots the cashier was having an in-depth conversation with the make-up counter woman. She tore herself away, rolled her eyes that I wanted to actually purchase. Made no effort, only to scan my item, and shove it back at me. Then, before I’d even bagged my goods, turned back to her colleague and said “anyway, you were saying?” as if I were the rude one who interrupted her / them.

I’ve worked in retail over the years, and customers always came first. Not anymore! Another recent one was Office, where the staff managed to deal with me not saying a single word.

Aldi, it’s a mess and stinks of wee (my local one) how can a shop even smell of wee? I keep trying it every so often because people rave about it bits it’s just crap. Crap customer service, the cashier racing to get everything scanned and the fact half the time they can’t scan half of the shopping because of ‘computers’ I’d rather spend a bit more and have a nice shopping experience.

Any sports footwear shops. All the trainers look the bloody same. I can’t work out what is men’s/women’s, or for general purpose, running or fucking pole dancing.

All of the foetuses who walk around gormlessly are worse than useless.

Genuinely feel like I’m going to have a panic attack if I have to go to one. I avoid them at all costs and buy from Amazon.

Lush. Not the smell, I don’t mind the smell, it’s the staff. I have no idea where they find these lobotomised fairy folk, are they all kidnapped as infants from wooded glens then imprisoned in the store basements, hooked up to a drip of heroin and bathbomb glitter? Strange, smiling, glassy-eyed creatures.

Oh and Office. Unsure why, it just gives me The Fear.

Crap returns policy too. After my last visit I swore I'd never return again

Superdrug. The queue is always insane.

Lush…. The smell knocks me sideways