Shops you seem to spend a lot of time in but don't particularly like.....

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

This. Absolute shambles of a queueing system and then tell you 'you can't do that in store, you have to call in'

I went and downgraded my phone once. They could not wait to get rid of me.

 

[Drebin]

Any shop where the person in front of me gets their shopping gift wrapped. Can't stand this new service because it seems to be spreading. It's just so effing lazy.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

The Nike trainers, at £25 for a size 11 4-year old, didn't seem particularly cheap either.

Well somebody has to pay for all their marketing.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Any shop where the person in front of me gets their shopping gift wrapped. Can't stand this new service because it seems to be spreading. It's just so effing lazy.

 

[BN9 BHA]

The funniest part of that film.

 

[beorhthelm]

IKEA (Cardiff, Bristol, Wednesbury...wherever)......the shop of the Devil.


God forbid there was ever a fire in one of those places, I'd be toast. Even the meatballs have gone downhill. When you've finally reached the checkouts, it doesn't end does it....Ikea family cards, queue's, the food bit, hotdogs aaaarrrrgggghhhhh

oh yes, i remember now, i havent been in IKEA for a while. the missus used to bribe me with the prospect of an icecream or hotdog like a small child, which after a two hour shuffle round the place, is frankly about the mental/behavioural level i'm at.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Another Sports Direct jumble sale vote.

http://www.theguardian.com/football...-sports-direct-route-running-newcastle-united



And ASDA.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I suspect in a lot of cases, they don't still exist except in Mike Ashley owned stores. Cheap way to get parents to buy stuff based on their own memories of "oh, I had those in school..." by buying a bankrupt brand and slapping it on random Bangladeshi stuff.

Correct. Ashley owns Lonsdale, Slazenger, Karrimor and diadora...

 

[Guinness Boy]

Any time spent in pretty much any shop that isn't a record shop, a book shop or a decent men's clothes shop (a la Jump the Gun) is a waste of time.

Amen

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Karrimor used to be top top quality stuff, but definitely not any more.

 

[dazzer6666]

Karrimor used to be top top quality stuff, but definitely not any more.

Decathlon is infinitely better for good value sports stuff. And the shops are well laid out.

 

[Dan Aitch]

I definitely had to spend too long in American Eagle while on holiday. All those logos around the place got me singing all the wrong songs, rather more loudly than my Missus would have liked. I had to have a 5-minute walk around Hollister to cheer myself up.

 

[dazzer6666]

I definitely had to spend too long in American Eagle while on holiday. All those logos around the place got me singing all the wrong songs, rather more loudly than my Missus would have liked. I had to have a 5-minute walk around Hollister to cheer myself up.

Can't see anything in Hollister anyway. Too dark.

 

[father_and_son]

Tesco

Especially Station/Boundary Rd ... makes me shiver just thinking about it.

 

[pasty]

Any female shoe department....for some reason, I always have to go with

I feel for you. Fortunately for me, Mrs P has now recognised my behaviour in those situations and actually prefers to go alone now

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Any supermarket shopping with Mrs....
The biggest Asda & Tesco stores are the worst experience.... NB try finding the loos on your first visit to Asda B/ton Marina...

 

[Nibble]

Sports Direct is really depressing . I get things from there quite regularly, football socks, running shoes and I find their sparring gloves and other boxing stuff is good. Plus their huge kit bags are ideal for carrying long training swords that we use but the staff are all a bit backwards. I go to the one in Kingston nowadays, even the part of town, round the back of Bentalls, that it's in is the worst bit of town.

And I loathe any supermarket "express store" they just remind me of my hungover and poor days and they are a rip off. I get depressed when I see people doing a weekly shop in there.

 

[Nibble]

Oh and CEX, good prices on stuff but horrendously depressing queues full of shoplifters and desperate poor people and the place stinks of teenage jizz.

 

[Worthingite]

Oh and CEX, good prices on stuff but horrendously depressing queues full of shoplifters and desperate poor people and the place stinks of teenage jizz.

And the music. Swear to god every store employs skater boy emo grunge kids, and every bloody store seems to have the same shocking music playing in the background.

 

[Nibble]

And the music. Swear to god every store employs skater boy emo grunge kids, and every bloody store seems to have the same shocking music playing in the background.

Yep, torrid place and always understaffed. I occasionally get cheap DVDs in there but a grown man shouldn't really have any business in there.

There are few HMV's left now or Borders the only chain stores I liked browsing in really.