Sports Direct in general, had to go there and buy a new pair of boots recently though. While I was displeased at the concept of funding that company, these boots are brilliant for the money.
Ryanair and Norwegian, oh and Etihad, are airlines I won't fly. Cheap flights maybe, but the service is just not to my standard. After Ryanair refused to pay out for the damage to my case on my last flight with them, I refused to put any more money in their pockets. If it was a desperate situation somewhere, a get-out-of-hell move, I'd have to consider using them but otherwise over a year and a half later I won't go near them.
Nowegian I declared similar with back in early 2016, 4 and a half years later and I still won't fly with them. Awful service on the way back, amongst other issues, and my money goes nowhere near them.
Etihad, sub-par service and horrendous trouble checking in for my return flights from Australia, not to mention the boarding music, and poor food led me to impose a ban on traveling with them as with Ryanair and Norwegian. In a desperate situation, I'd have to weigh up my options.
Amazon, like others, for poor business practices and a personal insistence on not putting money into the pockets of the world's richest man! I had to buy some things via their Marketplace thing some months ago, oh I felt dirty doing that, using Amazon...
Wish, products I've bought from them have been consistently terrible so after my first order I refused to do so again. Also, for more picky reasons, their adverts on YouTube get on my nerves! Not quite as much as TikTok, ooh those still drive me mad now!
Wetherspoons, purely because of how disgraceful the top man was to his staff at the beginning of lockdown. Like with Ryanair, if it came down to a choice of going hungry somewhere or lining Spoons' pockets, I'd have to put my head down and get a table in Spoons. It would have to be desperate though...
Coffee #1, their branch opened in Hereford a couple of years back, and I went in during the first week. I can't remember if it was the first day or not, but when you have seven baristas all getting into a flap over my coffee...My standard coffee is black, no sugar, no anything but espresso and hot water. Hardly difficult, but you'd think it with the fuss they made over making it! If it had been the best coffee I'd ever had, I would have gone back to try them again, but it wasn't that great.
There's a new barbers just down the road from me, and I'd give them a go, except the staff and their mates all hang out by the open front door puffing away like chimneys. I've only seen it once, granted, but I refuse to go in at all.
Finally, one of my local chippies. I have two, and one advertises it as being mandatory to wear a face covering. The other, no it lets anyone in with a covering or not. The protective screen doesn't do much of a job of anything, indeed instead of using the cut-out bit to hand over money you just reach around the screen to make a payment. Cash only as well, which drives me barmy. The other chippy, while more expensive, takes the virus much more seriously and does Click & Collect. I can order what I want on my phone, pop down 15 minutes later and by the time I've walked around the junction it's ready. Not that I get much from a chippy now, my latest health improvements render the majority of product on sale in them no good to me
