Shops you hate
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skyscraper101
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PC World
and most mobile phone shops
and most mobile phone shops
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
Apple stores - cathedrals of smug.
Primark in Oxford Street. Queue for 40 minutes for some three quid leggings that you can make go bobbly by just staring hard at them? Fuck off!
Tesco Extra at Lee Valley. I don't want to be given 25 choices of pasta shells when one will do, nor do I want to be given the stress of having to decide which one. Nor do I wish to pay 30p for a solitary lemon.
Next because they sell their shoes on hangers - trashy.
M and S, I think if the Daily Mail was a shop, it'd be this shop.
Primark in Oxford Street. Queue for 40 minutes for some three quid leggings that you can make go bobbly by just staring hard at them? Fuck off!
Tesco Extra at Lee Valley. I don't want to be given 25 choices of pasta shells when one will do, nor do I want to be given the stress of having to decide which one. Nor do I wish to pay 30p for a solitary lemon.
Next because they sell their shoes on hangers - trashy.
M and S, I think if the Daily Mail was a shop, it'd be this shop.
moose
like some cat from Japan
When they first opened here (many years ago!) I wandered in one day, and all the assistants as one ran towards me to tell me they didn't have anything larger than a 14
I dislike the super-cheap Primark places which sell disposable shite.
Geri
wasn't born to follow
I like M&S, but the amount of doddery old people dawdling about in the aisles sends me into a rage.
trashpony
Hag
I also have an irrational loathing for Next. I got sent a catalogue once and ordered some trousers for elliot from them and now I seem to have an account and they keep sending me the sodding catalogues.
dessiato
4 years and I still cry sometimes
I don't dislike any store especially. However, the only one that I avoid at all costs is Harrod's. It's just an over hyped shit hole, why do people not just go to any other House of Fraser and pay less? Why do people walk around with Harrod's shopping bags as if it is something desirable? It's shit, and only a dick would want to have a Harrod's shopping bag. To my eternal shame I used to have an account there, but started to realise that it was a shit hole, and I was being conned into thinking it was somehow special. It isn't it's a shit hole!
(I rather like Fortnum's though)
(I rather like Fortnum's though)
Geri
wasn't born to follow
I also have an irrational loathing for Next. I got sent a catalogue once and ordered some trousers for elliot from them and now I seem to have an account and they keep sending me the sodding catalogues.
I thought you had to pay for their catalogues?
Lisarocket
In bed with me dinner
I went in there on a Saturday recently and it was full of media types with their trolleys piled high. Why do your weekly shop in overpriced Budgens when there's a bloody Tesco right next door
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
hmm - i haven't drawn it very well. it's more like a long triangle squared off at the apex. It's the style they have made all their shoes in since 1988 elongated sqaury trangle ugliness.
- actually, a little research suggests they have changed their ways. but they still have an astonishing quantity of fugly shoes. like markses.
Yu_Gi_Oh
天天好心情
Coast. Party dresses for people with no style IMO. I hate their stiff, shiny fabrics, their boring cuts, their big poofy skirts, the way each garment has a girls name instead of a description.
Ted Baker. Again, it's dull and expensive.
Oasis. They're like a bizarre combination of Warehouse and Coast.
Ted Baker. Again, it's dull and expensive.
Oasis. They're like a bizarre combination of Warehouse and Coast.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
*prepares to be lynched*
I like coast dresses, because being of a smallish wait and amply curvy hips, their prom-style dresses actually fit me.
I like Gap because their long-sleeve t-shirts last for ages and are often on a special offer.
I like oasis and warehouse at the moment too - they've had some really fab tops recently.
I loathe new look, and am not a massive fan of H&M.
I just about tolerate Next now, as my newest pair of jeans came from there - they were the only people in March still doing bootcut jeans when the whole skinnyjean thing was happening.
Most of my office stuff comes from Jigsaw, mainly because it does last for ages, is well-made and I'm quite hard on clothes.
I do hate Topshop (the one in aberdeen, where I live) as they NEVER have anything in a size 14 or 16, and the last jacket I tried on was made of nasty horrid material and when on made me look very frumpy, which I thought was quite an achievement.
I like coast dresses, because being of a smallish wait and amply curvy hips, their prom-style dresses actually fit me.
I like Gap because their long-sleeve t-shirts last for ages and are often on a special offer.
I like oasis and warehouse at the moment too - they've had some really fab tops recently.
I loathe new look, and am not a massive fan of H&M.
I just about tolerate Next now, as my newest pair of jeans came from there - they were the only people in March still doing bootcut jeans when the whole skinnyjean thing was happening.
Most of my office stuff comes from Jigsaw, mainly because it does last for ages, is well-made and I'm quite hard on clothes.
I do hate Topshop (the one in aberdeen, where I live) as they NEVER have anything in a size 14 or 16, and the last jacket I tried on was made of nasty horrid material and when on made me look very frumpy, which I thought was quite an achievement.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
And Jane Norman. Jane Norman sell the sort of clothes worn by the girls who would steal your boyfriend at school.
Oh, and this^^^.
I think I hate it because the shops are so dark inside, probably so you can't see how nasty the stuff is.
toblerone3
Grrrrr
What's wrong with Topman. Its quite good I think. Astute and cheap. What are the things that you despise about fashion?
Random One
Gwanin
Topshop (especially the one on oxford street)
toblerone3
Grrrrr
Its the heart of Oxford Street Babylon and crowded and all that. But apart from that what is wrong with it?
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
Selfridges is much the same. Horrible ugly place full of people who have more money than taste, or people who wish they did.
toblerone3
Grrrrr
little edge
Nigella meets Lisa Loeb
Netto
Argos
Superdrug (dont hate it, but am a Boots girl, no reason, just habit and I like using my advantage card
)
Next
I also have an irrational disliking for any kind of 'pound store'
White Stuff
Fat Face
Karen Millen
Argos
Superdrug (dont hate it, but am a Boots girl, no reason, just habit and I like using my advantage card
)Next
I also have an irrational disliking for any kind of 'pound store'
White Stuff
Fat Face
Karen Millen
miss direct
misfungled
I don't know if it's just a Birmingham thing, but I can't stand Hypnotic. Does anyone know it? It's a cheap tat shop where everything costs £5.99. Everything is made of nasty man made materials, is available in size 10 and below only, and looks nasty, plastic and utterly trashy. There is no room to move, it's boiling hot, and any "aisle" is blocked by a double buggy. Usually plays loud garage music. Dire.
Clair De Lune
Apocalypse cocktails
Debenhams too, it makes me feel sick when I have to inhale so much perfume.
It is though, isn't it? I should hate it - I can't even afford a box of mince pies in there, and most of the customers are ridiculously posh - but they have footmen in mad 18th century uniforms (alright, I did guess the century) and lovely things on the shelves
I'm a sucker for a bit of history and tradition
Random One
Gwanin
i think i'll have to revise my original statement-it is solely the ox street Topshop i hate.
it's not the crowded-ness i just feel like i have stepped into some insane fashion magazine..i can't really explain it everything just feels over the top in there and i feel like everyone behaves like they are on display. don't get that same vibe in other shops on ox.street.
