Are there any shops you don't like?

freshpopcorn · 06-01-2019 02:32AM #1

One shop I never warmed to was TKMaxx but I know some people who love it. I've being to a few of them now and every time I've being I've being disappointed. I always feel there stuff is a bit tatty and anytime I've found something I liked there's being issues with the stitching/zips on the item and the prices aren't great either.

Are there any shops you don't like?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 06-01-2019 02:37AM

Tk maxx. Just couldn’t cope with it. Always hated warehouse too

The Floyd p · 06-01-2019 02:49AM

I'd also like to express my dislike for that particular shop.
The man never shopped in TkMaxx in his life.

eviltwin · 06-01-2019 02:50AM

Dunnes Stores, something about really puts me off.

06-01-2019 03:06AM

eviltwin wrote: »

Dunnes Stores, something about really puts me off.

I don't like Dunnes either. It's as if it doesn't know where it is in the market. When Aldi arrived it tried to compete with it. Now it's trying its best to look like M&S and failing at that too.

When I saw the thread title my first thought was "most of Dundrum Town centre". Theres very few shops that I have any interest in. They all seem like clones of each other. I know I'm not their target audience, but its conveniently located near me.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 06-01-2019 03:10AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I don't like Dunnes either. It's as if it doesn't know where it is in the market. When Aldi arrived it tried to compete with it. Now it's trying its best to look like M&S and failing at that too.

When I saw the thread title my first thought was "most of Dundrum Town centre". Theres very few shops that I have any interest in. They all seem like clones of each other. I know I'm not their target audience, but its conveniently located near me.

If you're not a woman aged 18-35 there's little in Dundrum SC to attract you, full stop.

Anyway, in answer to the OP's question: River Island. Also, is it counts as a shop - Starbucks.

Evel Knievel · 06-01-2019 03:18AM

Betting shops.

Also, any shops where some little piss ant with a lanyard is straight over asking if your "ok there", the minute you walk in the door.
Giz a chance to have a look first pal...

humberklog · 06-01-2019 03:37AM

Woodies. The staff are frustratingly few and frustratingly clueless.

JohnnyFlash · 06-01-2019 03:39AM

Tesco. The shops are always grotty, and it’s hard to know which are worse - the ‘unexpected item in bagging area’ machines, or the tragically demotivated human drones who work in them.

darragh o meara · 06-01-2019 03:43AM

Pennies.. a Mecca for woman aged 10 and up and a nightmare for the poor lads waiting outside for the women to come out. I’ve yet to see a woman go in and out in less than an hour

What’s more, if a woman happens to be in a different town with a Pennies, they get an urge to go in there too in case they have something the other one didn’t.

Gimme A Pound · 06-01-2019 03:44AM

Tesco always grotty? Don't see that myself.

Penneys - too packed all the time and the stuff is poor quality.

Bowlardo · 06-01-2019 03:47AM

darragh o meara wrote: »

Pennies.. a Mecca for woman aged 10 and up and a nightmare for the poor lads waiting outside for the women to come out. I’ve yet to see a woman go in and out in less than an hour

What’s more, if a woman happens to be in a different town with a Pennies, they get an urge to go in there too in case they have something the other one didn’t.

Brilliant. So true

YFlyer · 06-01-2019 03:47AM

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

If you're not a woman aged 18-35 there's little in Dundrum SC to attract you, full stop.

Anyway, in answer to the OP's question: River Island. Also, is it counts as a shop - Starbucks.

How about 18-35 year old women?

r93kaey5p2izun · 06-01-2019 04:01AM

Zara, Topshop and H&M. I've never found a single thing to buy in Topshop and have found Zara and H&M extremely poor quality.

If I was to look at clothes in TKMaxx my blood pressure would be through the roof due to the disorder and lack of sizes. But I find it good for accessories and household items.

06-01-2019 04:12AM

1. Robbing Valu and Dunnes. Complete gougers, with the latter having the added bonus of apartheid-supporting thugs of employees and suppliers alike for many decades. Robbing Valu is by far the worst chain in Ireland for repeatedly charging me a higher price than the stated price. Awful experiences on that issue.

2. TK Maxx for managing the remarkable feat of plastering a Union Jack on every second product. A nice entirely apolitical home product and they just have to stamp the Butcher's Apron on it. Wrong country, you pleb-targeting tools.

3. The checkout people in Lidl with their incessant phone conversation on their headphones as they "serve" you, followed by a grunt when they say the bill as if you are an inconvenience. Being civil costs nothing. And both Aldi & Lidl for making you queue up behind trolleys and the like when all you have is 5 or 6 things. Ever hear of self-service checkouts?

4. M&S for being by far the worst supermarket chain in Ireland when it comes to supporting Irish producers/jobs.

freshpopcorn · 06-01-2019 04:17AM

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3. The checkout people in Lidl with their incessant phone conversation on their headphones as they "serve" you, followed by a grunt when they say the bill as if you are an inconvenience. Being civil costs nothing.

I actually find these kind of funny. In my local Lidl the staff can very personal conversations over them and I've even heard them talk about customers! It's almost like they think everybody else is deaf.

06-01-2019 04:29AM

So you don’t like Supervalu because you don’t think it’s Super Value (your altenative name isn’t edgy or witty, BTW), you don’t like Dunnes because of Apartheid, you don’t like American TK Maxx because of a union flag on some Chinese made Italian branded tat rejected by some Londonite twat and rerouted to Dublin instead, you don’t like the German Lidl because you want to pay peanuts but not have monkeys....

But you end by complaining about one of the most British of retail brands not supporting Irish brands?

I like M&S myself, because poor people shop in those other hovels, and they’re smelly and badly dressed Sinn Fein voters. Tell me, where do armchair republicans actually like to shop these days? Feshty McSemtex’s corner shop?

tupenny · 06-01-2019 04:32AM

Been

freshpopcorn · 06-01-2019 04:36AM

tupenny wrote: »

Been

What's wrong with the Been shop?
It might be helpful to other posters.

Noveight · 06-01-2019 04:37AM

Footlocker.

Must be getting old because the idea of paying North of €100 for a pair of runners that aren't designed for running doesn't appeal to me.

lbc2019 · 06-01-2019 04:39AM

TK Maxx also, and those Huge Tescos

Gimme A Pound · 06-01-2019 04:39AM

Apartheid ended in 1994.

06-01-2019 04:39AM

Next - always found their clothes were too plain and dowdy.

I know that the chain has since closed, but also Maplin. I only went in there a handful of times (looking for specific items such batteries, fuses, etc) and found it really awkward to shop there. Their prices were also extortionate.

Claire’s accessories = over-priced and naff.

Independent DIY stores/ plumbing/ general hardware stores (not referring to b&q, Homebase, but non-franchised establishments)...... Although I don’t think I’m quite the consumer they try to appeal to.

Phone shops - not network carriers, but ones that sell a a multitude of phone accessories, repair screens, etc., but don’t actually stock any handsets. I never venture into them yet for some reason the over-saturation of this market-sphere annoys me (they’re everywhere!). Akin to vape shops (majority of them popped up overnight it seems!)

machiavellianme · 06-01-2019 04:40AM

Yes, Bishops

Liamalone · 06-01-2019 04:40AM

Spar

freshpopcorn · 06-01-2019 04:42AM

lbc2019 wrote: »

TK Maxx also, and those Huge Tescos

I really dislike all large Tesco's and Dunnnes.
They can have an isle of the same type of toilet rolls loads of shampoo/gels and the layout can be poor I've seen toilet roll and cereal in the same isle.

06-01-2019 04:44AM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I really dislike all large Tesco's and Dunnnes.
They can have an isle of the same type of toilet rolls loads of shampoo/gels and the layout can be poor I've seen toilet roll and cereal in the same isle.

High fiber granola and kittensoft 4 ply?

Makes sense.

PARlance · 06-01-2019 04:59AM

eviltwin wrote: »

Dunnes Stores, something about really puts me off.

The staff uniform sums it up for me, all black, like a funeral. You get the sense that it's a horrible place to work.

Always Tired · 06-01-2019 05:12AM

I dont like Dunnes at all either.

bassy · 06-01-2019 05:29AM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

One shop I never warmed to was TKMaxx but I know some people who love it. I've being to a few of them now and every time I've being I've being disappointed. I always feel there stuff is a bit tatty and anytime I've found something I liked there's being issues with the stitching/zips on the item and the prices aren't great either.

Are there any shops you don't like?

ooh skankdum style.........................................

s7ryf3925pivug · 06-01-2019 05:33AM

machiavellianme wrote: »

Yes, Bishops

Homophobe

Are there any shops you don't like?

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