Jewelry shops/furniture shops/mobile phone shops - any shop where the staff hound you as soon as you walk in. If I want something, I'll ask about it. I do not want or need people mithering me when I'm trying to browse. Grr.
(The only exception to this is Lush, but that's because I really like their stuff, and most of the staff know me by sight now and know not to approach me.)
As soon as you walk in they ask if your buying for Business or Personal. If its the latter your probably going to have to wait for an hour or two before anyone will speak to you
Russel and Bromley - I got some really bad sales advice there once from an arrogant **** who was determined to sell me shoes a size smaller than I normally get.
Debenhams - not for moral reasons (they have some nice clothes!) however they rudely put the blooming perfume counter at the entrance of all of their shops. I'm quite allergic to most perfumes, just standing outside can give me symptoms similar to hay fever. Goes for a lot of Boots shops as well actually.
The only shops I won't go into are some in Gran Canaria which have blacked out windows and doubt they sell anything I need:eek:, in terms of the UK there are shops I very very rarely use like Starbucks or Costa but that doesn't mean I'd never set foot in them.
I got some thermal base layers in Primark last year, great stuff, cheap as chips and kept the cold out. Yes they like most retailers buy cheap from India where your shoes and clothing are made by youngsters but then I think working in a factory better than a life of prostitution which would often be the alternative if we all went 'right on' and stopped buying. Have a look where your nice trainers and bits and bobs are made, where your winter 'The North Face' duvet jacket is made, India, China, Vietnam et al.
Carphone Warehouse is about the only one that springs to mind - terrible company to deal with, and even harder to get away from at the end of a contract.
There's a designer clothes shop called Guilio in a road called King's Street and when I used to go in there, the staff were all over me after about 5 seconds.
I hate going into designer clothes shops. The staff expect you to make a £100 purchase after about 10 seconds!
Me to. I had a browse round there and the staff would not leave me alone. Also went into Levi's and picked up a top I liked, the staff member took it from me and put it behind the till, for some reason that really got on my nerves so I have not been back.
Lush to, again there staff just do bit seem to know the meaning if the word just browsing, and the smell nearly made me pass out.
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Not quite right, they also sell cakes, fruit drinks, breakfast rolls, coffees.
Greggs is a proper bakery
Honestly? Is this correct?
I've yet to see a Greggs with a "proper" area for actually mixing, proving and baking bread.
Proper bakery? No, it isn't.
Starbucks
Costa Coffee
Any Private Bookshop "nudge nudge, wink wink"
Whats wrong with Costa Coffee, I love the place
I don't do these things and I go to ASDA...
Yes it is, all the Greggs branches in my local area make their own bread, pasties etc. It is the same as a supermarket bakery in that respect.
A couple of times they've even gone to the oven for a sausage roll if there are none left.
In answer to OP's question:
Happy to go in almost any shop but not fan of KFC, furniture shops get on my nerves or anywhere you are chased around by sales people
(The only exception to this is Lush, but that's because I really like their stuff, and most of the staff know me by sight now and know not to approach me.)
TK Maxx - it just resembles a jumble sale to me.
As soon as you walk in they ask if your buying for Business or Personal. If its the latter your probably going to have to wait for an hour or two before anyone will speak to you
Dixons - idiots.Are they bankrupt yet?
Primark
Fast food shops:)
Top Shop
Aldi
Lidl
Morrisons
Argos
Top whatever
Bon Marche
Peacocks
WHS
The pound shops. Don't see the point of buying cheap tat. I prefer something a bit better quality that will last longer.
Farm foods
Argos
Bonmarche
Matalan
Lidl
Game
Roman Originals
I got some thermal base layers in Primark last year, great stuff, cheap as chips and kept the cold out. Yes they like most retailers buy cheap from India where your shoes and clothing are made by youngsters but then I think working in a factory better than a life of prostitution which would often be the alternative if we all went 'right on' and stopped buying. Have a look where your nice trainers and bits and bobs are made, where your winter 'The North Face' duvet jacket is made, India, China, Vietnam et al.
You may prefer this one
But it does not mean that I buy from any shop
Any Tesco.
Me to. I had a browse round there and the staff would not leave me alone. Also went into Levi's and picked up a top I liked, the staff member took it from me and put it behind the till, for some reason that really got on my nerves so I have not been back.
Lush to, again there staff just do bit seem to know the meaning if the word just browsing, and the smell nearly made me pass out.
Lidl
ASDA
Primark
are the only ones that spring to mind
ugh..