Shops you hate

[feyr]

at the moment i hate all clothes shops. i need to go get some clothes tha a) arent maternity, b) arent stupidly expensive, C) realise that some women who are skinny still have curves

atm i live in some ancient leggings ( from a dance shop about 4 years ago) that are saggy in the knee, baggy t shirts and baggy hoodies which is fine because i dont have to leave the house often, and tbh everything gets baby sick/poo.food remenants on within seconds but i go back to work in january so have to get some things for then. a recent sort out of my wardrobe has left me with a few jumpers and tops from river island, all of which are not really suitable for work ( wearing a £30 top to a job where you are likely to come home covered in paint/food/dribble isnt really smart) and 1 pair of boyfriend jeans from miss selfridge which are very tatty. so i need to get some jeans, and smart/casual tops for most days, and a pair or smart trousers and smarter tops for meetings/duty days and days where i have to talk to parents/social workers/funding people. gah

i also hate mothercare with a passion, overpriced and rubbish quality

 

[contadino]

Aqua-fucking-scutum. The one in Regent Street. I'd rather be my usual scruffy self than a stuck-up twat-snob.

 

[spanglechick]

I hate all shops without exception except shoe shops and bookshops. I'd happily never set foot in them again.

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[Looby]

And Jane Norman. Jane Norman sell the sort of clothes worn by the girls who would steal your boyfriend at school.

Oh my god yes. Ditto Morgan.

I went shopping with magic sam to get him a zip up top and he was a nightmare. We went to a shopping centre that only had the usual suspects (nothing independant) and this was his response.

Topman- too young
Gap- too beige
Next- too stripey
M&S-too old
Burtons- too common
We finally ended up in TK Maxx. I don't disagree with most of it but how does someone who goes shopping twice a year get so judgemental.

 

[Orang Utan]

He's right you know!

 

[Maggot]

Can't abide Selfridges, Harrods, House of Fraser. Department stores in general make me feel queasy. It's the heat and perfume and normally not having eaten.

That's hardly the shops fault.

 

[themonkeyman]

Ikea = hell

 

[dodgepot]

i don't mind department stores in general. best when they're not too busy though. although harrods is a tacky, nasty dump.

 

[Looby]

He's right you know!

I know but on a budget where else does he want to fucking shop ffs?

 

[Orang Utan]

Oxfam??

 

[Looby]

Oxfam??

He'd find something wrong with that too.

I know everyone's slating Next but he actually gets some nice stuff in there. The main attraction being he can order online and it's on my account.

His newish jeans are from Next and I love them on him.

 

[Orang Utan]

American Apparel is OK for non-flashy basic stuff. Cheap n all. Not sure if they have one in Dorset though.

 

[dodgepot]

they don't have much in dorset, tbf.

 

[Scarlette]

I just remembered my biggest hate, though is not thready or dready. Anyway, my biggest one is Argos. Dear Lord, I hate that place. It makes me feel tense and angry. It's so illogical and grrrrrrr wrong.

 

[Looby]

they don't have much in dorset, tbf.

This is true. We only got H&M about 5 years ago. I'd never been in one til I moved to Brighton.

 

[Laney]

Primark. Most stressful place in the world.

 

[beeboo]

In my small-town middle-class up-bringing, Next used to be quite aspirational, which is rather tragic. It's just so BORING.

Jane Norman and Morgan also used to have a place in my life during an equal tragic period when going out meant wearing the shortest skirt you could find, necking vodka and snogging dodgy blokes. Yuck yuck yuck.

 

[Iguana]

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 used to work in a charity shop on a rather prestigious London street. And it was really common for the customers to ask us if we had any Harrods bags to put their purchases in.

 

[pinkmonkey]

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.

Fact: 90% of the womens clothes shops in Wood Green are exactly like this shop.

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

Next is overpriced crap that has the oddest cuts ever. Hate the place so much that it consumes all my retail anger.

 

[Cloo]

I don't 'hate' it, but have always avoided Next, as it feels to me like a clothes shop for people who don't like clothes - the sort of people who just go and buy several of the same black trousers, blue jeans, white shirts, black vest etc every couple of months, and it's not something I really want to feel associated with.

 

[19sixtysix]

Edinburgh woolen mill.
This is a long seated pathalogical hatred from having been dragged round them as a child when our for a trip in the car. It was always some touristy little town not too far from home Callendar, Aberfoyle Moffat etc. Grrrrr!

 

[bluestreak]

All of them. I fucking hate shopping.

Except little second hand record shops.

 

[100% masahiko]

Fresh n' Wild - full of wankers.

 

[100% masahiko]

And Harods.

 

[Felina]

Body Shop. Always some brat trying to shove some body butter on you while chirruping on about how creamy, smooth, blah it is. Everything in there smells boring.

Phone shops eg phones 4 u, right greasy slimey shop assistants in there with bad jokes and bad hair.

Card shops especially clintons!

 

[Clair De Lune]

Oh yes, phones4u, totally agree. I went in a few phone shops the other day and they stood out as being sleazy salesmen types, they practically jumped on me as I came in the door.

 

[Pip]

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 bought my fly guy a black towel with diamante Harrods logo on it for Christmas

 

[Pip]

I hate ASDA. My local one anyway. It's rampacked, no matter when you go. The queues go all up the food aisles and there's so many trolleys everywhere that you can't actually move or get anything off the shelves b'cos there's always someone in your way

There's a 24 hour ASDA quite near me that me and my mates drove to the other night in search of baubles. It was so fucking weird. Half the lights were off, there was loads of packaging on the floor and I'm not even kidding you - there were an inordinate number of really strange disfigured people and mental patients wandering the aisles.

 

[winterinmoscow]

All of them pretty much
Second hand book shops and charity shops are pretty much the only ones I enjoy.

totally agree with you there

I like Shared Earth although I hate anywhere that's uber-crowded.