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40 Times A Brand Made A Small Mistake, And It Annoyed People So Much They Boycotted Them
How willing are you to give people second chances? If a friend hurts your feelings, you probably don’t want to cut off the relationship then and there. And if a restaurant delivers you the wrong order, you might forgive their mistake. But if a business makes a grave error or creates a pattern of messing up, it might be time to write them off completely.
Redditors have recently been discussing petty grudges they hold against various companies that have inspired them to boycott. From overcharging hungry guests to refusing to let desperate parents use their bathroom, enjoy reading through these mistakes that caused brands to lose customers. And be sure to upvote the ones that inspire you to join in on the boycotting!
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#1
Dell. I bought a computer for my wife, 2 days later it went in sale. They still hadn’t built it yet. I called and asked them to match the sale price or cancel the order they refused. The person told me they had my money and there wasn’t anything I could do about it. I told them I would make them lose 100 times what they screwed me for, and I worked in IT so I would.
A few years later I was in a senior position with a company of over 850 staff. After I dropped Dell from an approved vendor the Dell rep reached out to me to have lunch. At lunch I told them why. They then told my boss and tried to have me fired. My boss called them a s*****g and said he would never buy another Dell as well.
Later I became a part of a company that did computers for over 5,000 employees in several companies. And Dell once again stopped being a choice.
Over my career I’m sure I cost them many times more than I said I would. It may seem petty to some but I think they deserved it for having terrible customer service.
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#2
In 1966 a chevron station in Wichita Kansas refused to let my dad use the restroom to change my diaper because he didn’t need gas.
Nobody in my family has used chevron gas since the mid 1960s.
Ian Webling 8 months ago
Rubens Barrichello moved aside to allow Michael Schumacher to win the 2002 Austrian Grand Prix after Ferrari ordered him to do so in the final lap. Since then I've never bought a Ferrari,
#3
SUBWAY. I was 9 months pregnant, ordered a sub on their app, the order went through and I was charged. I went to pick it up and the store was closed all day (it was a holiday, I didn't realize, pregnancy brain fog). I went back the next day and was told they had no way of checking and I had to come back when a manager was there 10-11 on Tuesdays and Thursdays only (??). Despite showing my receipt and assuming they should have had a record on their end? Anyway I went back during the ONE hour period I was given, and the manager wasn't there. The employee said they had no record of it.
I called and emailed corporate and was given the run around/no response.
They've lost me as a customer for life because that's the only power I have in the situation.
#4
I don't eat a Chick-fil-A because they hate gay people. And apparently seasoning.
#5
Sony Corporation. Because they wouldn’t stop going after a woman named “Sony” who lived in Baltimore because she named her little sandwich shop “Sony’s”. She eventually ran out of money defending her name because Sony Corp kept appealing when they lost.
#6
Honda.
Went in to buy a Honda Element and the sales guy wouldn’t let me take a test drive without taking about financing first. Talked to me like I walked into a Ferrari dealership asking about an Enzo, instead of a $24,000 utility vehicle.
So I went across the street and bought a new Scion xB from the Toyota dealership. Who never once asked me about money until I said I wanted to take it home. Wrote a check, signed some papers, and drove over to the Honda dealership to wave. (But he was already gone, so it wasn’t as cool as I wanted it to be. But in my head, it was totally bad a*s and he was really sad about it and cried and stuff.)
I have since purchased 7 new Toyotas from the same salesman at the same dealership, and will never own a Honda. And I will die on this tiny hill of pettiness.
#7
I don't eat Chick-fil-A because of the hate.
I don't eat Jimmy Johns because the owner trophy hunts.
I don't eat Papa Johns, because the owner is a Qunt.
#8
Anywhere that makes me use a QR code for any reason.
Emilu 8 months ago
How do you survive? And I mean this only somewhat facetiously. The world just assumes that everyone has a smartphone nowadays. It’s kind of obnoxious, really.
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Wysteria_Rose 8 months ago
Restaurants that make QR codes their menu. No. I will die on this hill. If I go in and ask for a menu and you give me a QR code, I will turn right around and leave.
Broad Panda 8 months ago
I'd much rather use a QR code than touch some grubby menu that has been in the hands of multiple people. And it means menu changes don't require the printing of new menus. It just makes sense to me.
Janissary35680 8 months ago
Printed menus increase operational costs leading to higher customer check prices. This is especially important in an inflationary environment where menus need to be revised frequently. You get a paper menu or higher prices, people. Take your pick.
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tori Ohno 8 months ago
How about the restaurants that don't even have physical menus to look over? Nope.
Robert T 8 months ago
I've used QR codes for my car club. We have business cards for the register that when scanned take you straight to that page on our website. We also have them on our electronic membership cards, but they are for us to scan when members turn up at events. We provide them as a convenience for our younger members. The septuagenarians tend not be interested in such things. LOL
Celtic Pirate Queen 8 months ago
We checked out our local "Texas Roadhouse". They not only didn't provide a menu, they wanted us to use the tableside tablet to order our food. I was like, Nah - bring me an actual menu. They balked just enough for me to look at my husband and say, "McDonald's it is".
Rich Black 8 months ago
Upvoted. Fake QR codes are growing exponentially. Thev send you to scam URLs
Seadog 8 months ago
QR code in restaurants for the menu. Sorry, just close the doors now. And if you're upset with QR codes in general, you're in for a shock because now 3 factor authentication has become a thing and you can't use the same phone number twice. So now I have to carry 3 phones. Main, secondary and one that I slave off the other because my Alexa items only show on that phone. Hardware on the Alexa app doesn't transfer through the account so when I log in on the new phone, nothing is there. Alexa/Apple sucks. I knew when I bought that hardware I was in trouble. Unfortunately, Nest doesn't offer a similar item.
Sven Horlemann 8 months ago
We were visiting Luxembourg. Sat down for a drink. Asked for a menu. The waiter just pointed at the QR code on the table. We looked at each other, stood up, and left. We are good in non verbal communication, too 🙃
RedandVine 8 months ago
My favourite local sushi restaurant recently put QR codes on the tables. You have to use your phone to access their menu. Hate it.
Colleen Glim 8 months ago
Plenty of other good sushi restaurants out there. Time to start looking elsewhere
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#9
HP. What do you mean I need a subscription to use my ink? I’m never buying HP again.
Taibhse Sealgair 8 months ago
This. And it's getting worse. Google HP Printing as a Service. Never, ever, buy an HP printer.
#10
Hello Fresh, the food delivery company.
Around 7:30 in the evening I was trying to settle my baby to sleep. She was just nodding off when someone started knocking really loudly on the front door which jolted her awake.
Went to answer the door and two sales reps for Hello Fresh were stood there, one male, one female, both around 20ish years of age.
They asked how I was doing and I replied that I wasn't very happy as I was trying to settle my daughter and they'd just woken her back up by banging so loudly on the door at 7:30. Said I wasn't interested in anything they were selling and as I went to close the door I heard the female call me a d**k.
Lost my temper and told them both in fairly stern manner that if they didn't leave my property immediately that I'd drag them off and that they wouldn't be in a position to be bothering anybody else that night. .
#12
I once ordered from a small local shop for the kids. They both wanted grilled cheese. I ordered a salad. Placed the order and waited for the text to pick it up. And waited. And waited. About 45 minutes after the time it was supposed to be due, I called them.
Manager came on the phone and said: oh, we don't make grilled cheese anymore (!), so we canceled your order.
They never bothered to tell me this, so I ended up with two very hungry kids in the backseat. Never went there again, and was gratified to see they went out of business a few months later.
#13
FedEx once claimed I was not home 3 times in a row. 2 of those times I purposely stayed home and worked near the front door.
Looked at cameras and saw that they never even pulled up in front of my house when they’d mark my not home.
I now drive a farther distance to Office Depot or Staples if I ever need to print stuff for work.
I also will pay more for USPS or UPS when given the option.
F**k FedEx forever. .
BrownEyedPanda 8 months ago
That's odd, I have the same problem with United Parcel Screwup. Too lazy to deliver my packages to my door. I had to go to a liquor store in a questionable area to collect the last one.
#14
VW.
I went to one of their showrooms when I was shopping for my first car (F, at the time I was 22). The sales guy wouldn't help me unless he knew how much my dad was willing to spend. I informed him that my dad had nothing to do with it, I was buying a car with my own money. He didn't believe me and told me to come back with my Dad.
I will never buy a VW.
Emilu 8 months ago
I had a bad experience at a VW dealership as well. The salesperson assumed I couldn’t afford the car I wanted because I didn’t feel comfortable telling him directly how much I was comfortable spending, and so proceeded to tell me to “bring my (current) car in for valuation” and then ignored me. Drove off and spent double than that stupid VW elsewhere. F**k you, Edgar.
#15
There is a Potato Chip company here in New Zealand called Bluebird. There was a superior chip company called Krispa that did the best Salt & Vinegar as well as Chicken flavoured chips.
Krispa were god tier. Like, Bluebird couldn't even compete. Kripsa was in every kids lunch box, at every BBQ etc. Bluebird was the crude, yet overpriced, alternative that people would get if Krispa wasn't available (I'm sure there are Bluebird fanbois who disagree with me, but their opinions are wrong).
In 2005, Bluebird made the bold move of buying out Krispa from their parent company. And what did they do? THEY JUST SHUT THEM DOWN. No replacements, no rebranding under the Bluebird wing, they just bought the competition and closed them down.
For 20 years, I have never bought a Bluebird product just in spite. F**k you, Bluebird.
ss 8 months ago
Classic Big Pharma move. 10 yrs ago, an off-patent d**g from 55 yrs ago that cost $6 / month, well, there were 20 manufacturers. Company X BOUGHT THEM ALL UP, and now it costs $75 / month, and I am not making this up. See, they need all these high prices to support "Research" when actually it is to pay for advertising and executive bonuses.
#16
Subway because the guy taking my order made fun of me for wanting a 6 inch instead of a footlong. He made a d**k joke, I was already tired and hungover so I said fine keep the sandwich and went to the Golden Arches instead.
#17
Sears. Way back in the day, 1988 to be exact, my husband and I tried to buy a dryer from Sears. We were young and poor, and applied for the Discover card to finance said dryer. They scheduled us for delivery and, lo and behold, the dryer was not delivered. I called the salesman who sold us the dryer and he told me we were not approved for the card, so no dryer for us. He was extremely rude and dismissive. We never bought another thing from sears, and I feel we are personally responsible for their demise. F**k you Sears.
#18
Santander. They charged me £28 in overdraft fees when thye f****d up and misplaced a cheque I'd paid in.
I made appointments at 5 different branches, and made sure I had a leaky pot of hopusepaint in my bag every time. Must have cost them at least a grand in carpets.
#19
Before they went under I boycotted Body Shop (UK high street store), purely because I went into one of their stores, tried to buy a lip balm and was told there was a minimum THREE ITEM purchase?!?
But I didn't want anything else, I just wanted the lip balm.
I know I could have just bought three lip balms BUT I Didn't WANT TO.
This was a few years ago and I'm still annoyed about it.
EDIT: The stupid rule might have only existed because it was an outlet store, not one of the normal ones. Still annoyed nonetheless.
Offbeat Quinoa 8 months ago
That’s just pure greed on behalf of the store lmao there’s no real need for that rule.
#20
Lush.
I just wanted to look at soap but now 8 different employees have come up to me and asked if I need help or tried to make conversation. F*****g GO AWAY.
Offbeat Quinoa 8 months ago
No for real. I know it’s their job but I often hope the management notices that it drives customers away too.
#21
Best Buy
I tried to return a brand new fitbit that wouldn't turn on 2 days after I bought it with the receipt and the box was "bent" so the manager refused it.
When i was like, you can't refuse it. It fits all the qualifications and more for a return, he dragged a pregnant teen out onto the floor, grabbed her by the arm and said, See this girl, you return that I can't pay her. You're taking food out of her mouth.
BEST BUY. Not some mom and pop store where, sure it's going to hurt, but you'll get reimbursed in 60 days from fitbit when you send it back. Best freaking buy.
We were in the middle of redoing a house. I went in four weeks later and asked to speak to him and showed him the receipt for a washer, a dryer, a dishwasher, a fridge, two tvs, and a sterosystem. It was my "big mistake, huge" moment. And that was the last time I stepped into a best buy.
Regina Holt 8 months ago
I won't shop at Best Buy because the stores are too loud. I used to go there with friends, I was just tagging along doing other stuff when they stopped into Best Buy to get stuff. I could not stand the loud music and all of the noise in the store. There was no reason it had to be that loud.
#22
Domino Sugar will never get a dime from me cause they f****d with the Sugar Cane plantations here in Puerto Rico when the first governor was appointed to the island. Destroyed the existing sugar cane mills and exploited our land and people.
E Menendez 8 months ago
This is not petty. And similar reason why Nestle should also be boycotted - they still to this day exploit people.
#23
I boycott any gas station that charges to use the air pump. .
Offbeat Quinoa 8 months ago
Haha at the dealership I work at, if someone pulls up and asks for help with topping up their tires, we’ll just do it for free because it only takes a minute or two 😅 honestly if you were really struggling you could probably do that almost anywhere and they’d be happy to help
#24
I won’t buy Charmin toilet tissue for the simple fact those bears piss me off.
#25
Lululemon. I have been fat and thin at different times in my life, but their attitude against larger women means I won’t buy their stuff, even if it fits me.
#26
JC Penney. 40 years ago some man with customer service yelled at my mom and basically called her a liar and it made her cry. They’re not getting my pennies!!
#27
Once (back in 2013) Barilla said they refuse to have ads featuring LGBT families because it is their product and they have a right to market it as they will. So I decided I have a right to buy the pasta that I will so even though we used to like Barilla we've been boycotting it. For me it doesn't feel petty but people tend to find it petty and stupid.
#28
Mr. Beast anything. Scammer extraordinaire.
David Morgan 8 months ago
He always seemed 'off' to me. I know he is ostensibly helping people, but I can't shake the feeling he's only in it for the personal benefits. Maybe I'm wrong, but he gives me 'danger' signals.
#30
KFC. Their "honey sauce" is not honey. It's high fructose corn syrup. Unforgivable.
BrownEyedPanda 8 months ago
Unforgivable is right. It's bad enough that they no longer have the rolls or even real butter. But to cheap out on the HONEY?! If Harland Sanders could see what has become of his beloved Kentucky Fried Chicken, he would go absolutely postal.
#31
My grandma boycotted Tropical Smoothie until she died because she hated the woman who owned her local one. 😂.
#32
Target and CVS. If they’re going to lock up my f*****g deodorant, I’m going to shop somewhere else.
#33
Any product that advertises "up to 100%" of anything, protection, stain removal, odour control, hair colour....
So, that could be 1% then?
#34
Sephora - some b****y sales associate followed me around the store - it was so insulting, will never shop again.
Sapna Sarfare 8 months ago
Their Indian stores are notorious for looking down on people who dont look like they can afford. i have heard not seen though. They stock imported stuff that is expensive and not indian brands.. again i have heard.. its a running joke in india regarding this
#35
I once opened a can of Del Monte fruit cocktail and IT WAS MISSING THE HALF CHERRY. After several strongly worded letters to corporate and zero satisfaction, I decided a full boycott was in order.
#36
I switched toilet paper brands because I refuse to “enjoy the go”.
#38
Audi.
Just because my annoying uncle kept talking about it on EVERY family gathering. Didn’t see him in twenty years and still can’t drive an Audi.
Gareth Owen 8 months ago
I refuse to buy an Audi because based on extensive experience, the turn-signals (indicators) don't work.
#39
Burger King, because those singing (if you can call it that) commercials are very annoying.
#40
Twitch. I had streamed for several years and they did not pay me the money based on the contract, and they didn't refund the people who had supported me.
They constantly commit fraud and I've been hating and battling them since 2019. Many people such as myself are hated for being victims of financial abuse by a conglomerate.
The pettiness is because it's small amounts, 50$ here and there (but it's been adding up over time).
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#42
There is a muesli brand here in Germany called "Seitenbacher". I refuse to buy their products - despite them being amazing quality - because during my first real job I had to listen to the radio in the office, and their incredibly annoying commercials would be running every 5 minutes. It was just the owner of the company repeating the name over and over.
Just seeing that name irritates me to this day.
Taibhse Sealgair 8 months ago
I constantly boycott companies that run annoying commercials. Burger King is at the top of my list right now.
#43
Any company that uses a handwritten font in their mailing advertisements. F**k that.
#44
Panera because why is half a sandwich and a cup of soup $20 now??? They used to be my go to affordable lunch and you could get a pastry for $1 if you purchased a meal. Now it’s overpriced airport food.
trixiefly11 8 months ago
Panera has always been overpriced. Last time I went there was like 10 years ago and it was freaking $5 for half a sandwich. Half a sandwich should never be that much.
#45
Time magazine for leaving Elvis Presley *off* their list of 20th Century Top Entertainers.
Absurd on its face.
EDIT: You can not like Elvis as a singer and/or person and that's cool. I personally don't like the Beatles and think they are overrated. But you can't possibly say Elvis *wasn't* a top entertainer-- easily Top 10 during his time-- in music, movies, and concerts for over two decades. That's just denying reality.
Bob Jones 8 months ago
Only listening to their songs today you wouldnt know it, but music today would not be the same without the Beatles. Throughout their 7 years they broke new ground and pushed the boundaries of what was possible with popular music in terms of song creation, production and image with everything that they did. In terms of influence noone else even comes close
#46
Figs scrubs.
They did a commercial a couple years back featuring a female physician holding a “medicine for dummies” book upside down with a DO badge. I’m a female physician who is a DO and they will never get my money.
David Morgan 8 months ago
Patronising is not the same as funny. You SHOULD boycott brands that don't respect you.
#47
Chipotle because I had a dream my husband took me there and asked for a divorce.
#48
Victoria's secret.
Too expensive. Too many catalogs. I'm not paying high prices so they can pay supermodels to sell them.
Bought one of their body by Victoria bras and it gave me a horrible rash on my bewbs.
Never again.
F**k VS!
#49
My neighbor boycotts the only grocery store in town bc one time another customer called her a bad name and the 16 year old cashier didn’t do anything about it lol.
SlothyK8 8 months ago
I boycott the only store in my town because the original owners sold it last year and the new owners immediately hoisted a MAGA flag. Nope. I now have to drive 12 miles instead of 3 for groceries, etc., but I'm not giving those jerks any of my hard earned money. I hope they choke.
#50
I still don’t buy nabisco brand vanilla wafers because they moved their factory out of my neighborhood in the 1990’s and now I can’t smell them baking from my backyard.
I’ll but Oreos though 🤷🏼♀️.
Ron Joseph 8 months ago
This is a very valid reason, because the same thing happened to me. Used to love the smell when I was driving home. (Do you by any chance live in Philadelphia PA (USA)?
#51
Shutterfly. I was going to order Christmas cards in 2020 and they were charging a $1 “covid fee.” I was an essential worker, and I was just like f**k you Shutterfly, I’m sure a majority of your company can work remotely. Don’t charge me a f*****g covid fee. And haven’t used them since.
#52
Reebok because my buddy did an internship there and said he was treated badly.
#53
Glamoflauge, a line of opaque concealer from Hard Candy for covering up tattoos and stuff. It’s got good reviews in general but I can’t buy it on the principle that their brand name is misspelled. It’s supposed to be a portmanteau of ‘glamour’ and camouflage’ so the correct spelling is obviously Glamouflage. I don’t understand how they don’t see it.
#54
Anything from Blizzard games. As a 90s kid they went from the darlings of the gaming industry to the darlings of shareholders. An absolute fall from grace.
#55
Most things that have needless harry potter branding or partnerships. Looked at that Sasquatch soap once, saw they had a hp partnership and now will never try their brand. those little knitting kits looked cute and I was gonna try one but then they picked up hp branding so now their whole company is gone to me. Not super petty but I figure the added degrees of separation help it along.
#56
DoorDash . Because forever ago when I was going to deliver for them I learned that if the customer tipped, the driver only got paid $1 for that trip. (Because they counted the tip as part of the pay.) (I believe they’ve changed this, but yeah… f**k them.).
michael Chock 8 months ago
Everybody worships "job creators" even if they pay minimum wage or less. Those are not job creators, they are opportunity pirates. If you can't pay a livable wage, you do not have a viable business plan and should be ran out of the country.
#57
Oh I can do petty.
I boycott my local Co-op because I once tried to buy a sandwich lunch deal for £3.50 and the woman at the till said that's a Premium lunch item and it should be £5.50.
I said, it's on the shelf labelled as a "main", NOT a premium main. And nothing on the packaging suggested it was premium item, in fact it literally said 'MAIN' on the label.
I now refuse to grace them with my custom.
I go to Morrisons instead and get a worse sandwich for more money!
#58
If I see an obnoxious ad for something I'm never buying it again. I don't care what it is, I will give up my favorite foods or life-saving medication if it means they lose 1¢ for making those d*****s commercials.
#59
McDonald’s. When I was 7, I ordered a vanilla milkshake and got a strawberry one. I haven’t been back since.
murmelinpaiva 8 months ago
We stopped using them after we had a kid's birthday there and we found rodent droppings in the box that they gave us to take things home.
#60
Heinz Baked Beans because they don’t stack in the cupboard. That’s the petty reason I first stopped buying them.
The fact that they are now watery s**te means I won’t go back.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 8 months ago
Yes! I've been saying for years that Heinz have become watery and tasteless. Branston is where it's at. Hell, even the own brands are better than Heinz these days.
#61
I once ordered a Jimmy John's sub with no mayo. It came back covered in mayo.
#62
Any snack where the advertisements feature someone CRUNCHing and eating, ugghh just thinking about it drives me up the wall.
Offbeat Quinoa 8 months ago
I need to get off tiktok because no matter what I do I can’t get away from videos of people taking a huge bite of something, and then going “MMM!” and chewing loudly and wetly while there’s sauce and crumbs smeared all over their lips. Maybe it’s just me but it grosses me out so bad, like wipe your mouth and back tf up pleeeasee 😅 you can actually make enjoyable food videos without doing closeups of you chewing and smacking and gulping your food, fun fact 😅
#63
I have not knowingly purchased a Hanes product since the 1980s commercial for "Underalls", a panty hose, that advertised " They make me look like I'm not wearin' nothin'. "
The poor English just sounded trashy.
No, I'm not an English teacher. .
David Morgan 8 months ago
A sentence that directly contradicts it's intended meaning is stupid. Not a petty reason. It implies the person saying it doesn't know better, or that the audience doesn't. Insulting either way.
#64
Maybe not petty, but the only place I boycott for reasons personal to myself.
My dad and I went to Tractor Supply to refill our propane bottles. The guy asked us to pull around behind a few parking lots nearby to get into their stockyard where the containers were. We did so, and while we were waiting for him I realized the narrow alleyway my dad had backed into was littered with nails.
I brought it up to the guy, and he just asked if my dad had ran over one (he didn't as far as we know). I generally had to explain to the guy basic things like he could be causing a lot of flat tires with their alleyway littered with nails like this, to which he said "The nails aren't ours." I asked if he would sweep them up the moment we left; "If I have time."
I never get angry at employees and make a scene for myself, even when they make mistakes and sometimes end up inconveniencing me, but I found myself asking the guy snarky if he would buy us new tires if we ended up having a flat, since he wasn't willing to do anything else to fix this immediate problem. That made him angry and he started bringing up the law about how the nails didn't belong to them and it couldn't be proven they had thrown them out. Before we left I even asked him for a broom so I could do it myself, but he wouldn't give me one.
One worthless employee is enough for me to never want to go back there again.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 8 months ago
Why do so many people not know the difference between "run" and "ran"? I see more posts that get it wrong than get it right these days. Even at work I have colleagues who say "I have ran it". No. You have *run* it. Run is the past participle, not ran. "I ran" but "I have run".
#65
A local food place. I got lasagna as pickup. When ordering on the phone, she asked, "do you want it *warm*?" I said nah. Turns out, she meant *cooked*. I was on a quick lunch break and had no way to cook f*****g lasagna. It's been over a decade and Im still upset.
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 8 months ago
I booked a table at a restaurant once, and on the phone they asked if anyone had any allergies. I have an intolerance to mushrooms and can't count the number of times I've been served mushrooms despite making this clear when I order, so I was super impressed that they were asking before I even got there. Turned up on the day to find that every single main they served had mushroom in, so I had to go elsewhere. Haven't been back on principle, but does it still count as a boycott if I also couldn't go back if I wanted to?
#66
Anything from Best Buy. It has something to do with a delivery of a washing machine. Not even my washing machine, it belonged to the landlord. Back in 2008. The petty is strong with me: I can't even remember the issue, but I won't work with them ever again. LOL.
#67
Pizza Hut I was given a non refundable cheese pizza when I asked for pepperoni.
Sapna Sarfare 8 months ago
Always get a stomach ache when i eat their pizzas. Never ate theirs ever
#69
Milani (the makeup brand). It was after they participated in the meme trend around the Depp / Heard trial. I thought the decision to make a mockery of a domestic violence trial was disgusting and I never got over how freakish it is for companies to use abuse allegations as social media fodder to make a buck. I don’t use DuoLingo for the same reason.
#70
16 years ago, a major e-commerce site of my country screwed up a package I was super excited about. Sent it a month later at the wrong address, with no excuses. I still refuse to buy stuff from them.
#71
Bojangles. They didn't give me a receipt at the drive-thru when I paid, then when I got to the next window they gave me the wrong order and I couldn't prove to them it was wrong because I didn't have a receipt.
#72
There’s a Peruvian chicken place near where I used to live. They make pretty good sandwiches but like 5 times in a row I went in and ordered one and they told me they were out of bread. So I boycotted the place for like ten years till we moved away.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 8 months ago
Our local KFC used to routinely run out of chicken... at lunch time. Regularly we'd go in at lunch time and be told "Oh, there's a 20 minute wait on the chicken". We're on our lunch break. We're not hanging around because you fail to appreciate that people might want chicken at lunch time. We used to refer to the branch manager as "Chris the idiot".
#73
Not mine but a boycott via association.
Denny's once gave my wife only 1 sausage link. Haven't eaten in any Denny's in 15 plus years...
#74
Not really petty, but David Chang's Momofuku brand. He tried to bully Asian businesses from using the term Chili Crunch on their products. There's a lot of info on it out there.
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 8 months ago
Never heard of them but I'd boycott just because of that name. (If momofuku means something deep and spiritual, it does not translate well.) There's a shop near me called "ilovememost" that I will never step foot in because it represents all that's wrong with our selfish society.
#75
Everything Maroon 5 for teasing Sweet Victory at the Superbowl and then not playing it.
#76
Pringles because I am sick of mustaches.
#77
1. Domino's, bc one time I ordered and it didn't show up even tho it said it had, but when I called the guy was like??? Ok??? I can send you a refund I guess?? Like it was my fault. Also, I didn't WANT a refund, I wanted them to resend a pizza, but they wouldn't bc it was too busy.
2. Charmin, bc those bears???!?!? Why are they so obsessed w toilet paper bears don't even need toilet paper?? Why are they always shaking their butt's at each other???? Why do they live in a house but wear no clothing?!?!?
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 8 months ago
Why are bears obsessed with toilet paper? Because of the expression "Do bears s**t in the woods?". Are people so dense that they can't see that connection?
#78
Acer, I was gifted a s****y laptop from them as a kid and have hated them since for no good reason.
David Morgan 8 months ago (edited)
Nothing wrong with Acer laptops. I'm using one to write this.
#79
Great value bacon cause I over cooked it in 5 seconds.
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Just got our 1/2 hog from the local store (annual hog sale @1.89/lb). My wife will buy GV or Meijer bacon when we are out, after having theirs I'm too spoiled now. When we run out of our hog they always do a bogo on ends and pieces. Good enough for me! She regards it as unnatural (ends and pieces).
What do you think ?
P1 No-Name 8 months ago
Starbucks, ignoring the fact that their coffee is grim, following the 9/11 attacks, a Starbucks branch in New York charged rescue workers for water. Any company that forbids its staff from using common sense & showing care & humanity is irredeemably despicable.
BrownEyedPanda 8 months ago
Also, they don't support veterans or first responders. But let there be a burglary or fire.....
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G A 8 months ago (edited)
All the charities that have endless TV adverts for hair lips, african wells, old agers, sick pets, endangered wildlife. I willingly support charities but those "feel bad" ones just made me feel guilty then annoyed. There is one that starts "A little kitten, left out to die..." See that on every ad break and it's wearying.
Donna Peluda 8 months ago
Tom cruise movies. Back when I was in my teens I use to go to the movies twice a week..one day I was going with Yoli, my GF and she aske me if Tom Cruise was in it. He wasn't, so she said I'm not going to see a movie till Tom Cruise star in it..so I told her to get foorking Tom Cruise to take her next time. Tom Cruise is not an actor anyway. He's a poser. He doesn't act. He can't act. So fork you Tom
OpheliaPoe 8 months ago
I just assume all of his movies have some hidden scientology recruitment agenda.
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RedHairedDragon 8 months ago
Bored panda, after their premium-launch that basically trashed the site. Now it's too bright, filled with gossip and quizzes, and Amazon-links disguised as articles. Too bad, I came here after C*****d.com went into the dumpster, and now I need a new source of easy entertainment
Julia H 8 months ago
They also c**p all over their sellers. I could write a book on how Amazon screwed us over. We no longer use their platform. Period
Load More Replies... Wysteria_Rose 8 months ago
AT&T. I had tried them once for cheaper internet; worst internet speed and service, so I switched back to my original. Recently, two of their sales guys came to our door. They were very pushy. They even said "well, you may have to ask your husband about the bill, but we could promise you a lower amount." I said, "I know about the bill because I pay it." They looked surprised and said "Well, if you're not happy with your current bill_ _" I said, "I am fine with my bill. It's not bad at all." They seemed so agitated. Last straw was them going "So we'll come on Sunday to give you a routine inspection and offer." I said I did not invite them for that and I was not interested. Finally just shut the door on them because they were not taking the hint.
Mrs.C 8 months ago
I've been boycotting Uncle Ben's rice for 26ish years because they had these strangely s3xual rice bowl commercials in the late 90's (look up Disturbingly 3r0tic Uncle Ben's rice 90's commercials on YouTube). I emailed the company with my concerns about them airing during day time TV and they're response was to send me a bunch of coupons with my name stamped on them. It was weird.
Al Fun 8 months ago
Just went to YouTube to look them up - 🍚 a passion for good food 😆
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John Ambrose-Hemmingway 8 months ago
Kubota Tractor. Just because I'm a white male doesn't mean I want to hear your 70-year-old salesman rant about Mexicans and trans people.
kate h 8 months ago
Bank of America. I had two accounts there and made a mistake writing a check on the wrong one. Fine, my fault and I got an NSF charge. But they didn't inform me for 4 days because they mailed me the info all the while charging me an NSF charge DAILY. I went in and the branch manager "kindly" took off two of the charges. I then "kindly" closed all of my accounts and badmouth them to this day.
Cara Vinson 8 months ago
Starbucks, I was paying $11-12 bucks a day for breakfast and coffee, and they refused to give me a 10cent packet of their new hot sauce because 'only 1 per order'. Screw it, now my breakfast is from Woods and their coffee is so much better! Thank you for your cheap, tiny, petty nonsense Starbucks! You led me to much better coffee.
Betsy S 8 months ago
Nestle's but it's not petty. They killed so many babies in 3rd world countries because of their corporate greed. They stole and as far as I know, continue to steal water from springs they have no license to tap, just to put it into single-use water bottles and sell it back to the people whose taps that water should be coming out of. They are a company with no morals and no integrity. I will go out of my way or wait a very long time to get a product that is NOT a Nestle' product.
Emilu 8 months ago
Was about to say, on the petty scale that’s pretty f*****g low.
Load More Replies... John Dilligaf 8 months ago
Life Savers candy. They changed the flavors in the candy roll back in 2004 or 2005. Haven't eaten any since.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
And they discontinued Butter Rum. Figpuckers.
Load More Replies... Dale Poncy 8 months ago
Disneyland. My wife and I had season passes for 6 years. We renewed for a 7th year but before the old pass expired I was diagnosed with cancer. Then at the same time my wife had a brain aneurism. I called and asked to freeze our passes. They told me they couldn't do that. I explained it was due to medical issues and I wasn't asking for a refund. I was even offering proof from our doctors. I was still refused. This was in 2015. The annual pass was about $1,100/ each. We weren't able to go a single time. I will never go to Disneyland again. Screw that greedy mouse 🐁. And I tell this as often as I can. They screwed me out of $2,200. But I hope by telling this I cost them a little bit of money.
William Teach 8 months ago
State Farm. I had an accident, found out the agent set the deductibles same as my home, $1,000, after begging me to combine home and auto. For which I saved nothing. Then the agent was rude. Dropped auto. Then they dropped my home, and never told me. This was all on the agent, not SF, but, I refuse to use them again nor recommend them (and I work selling autos, we recommend a lot)
Sapna Sarfare 8 months ago
I was meeting a friend at a small cafe type place convinient for both of us. Our simple orders didnt come for half an hour.. not even the soft drinks.. we just left and went to a sizzlers place nearby.. the cafe shut down
BrownEyedPanda 8 months ago
The Polaroid Land Company will never get another nickel of my money. Longstanding grudge from high school. In the late 70's, Kodak came out with an instant print camera called The Handle. You snapped a picture, then you manually cranked it out. It was love at first sight for me. It also took an entire week of hinting to get it as a graduation gift. I had so much fun with it--until..... The Polaroid Land Corporation got their thongs in a bunch over the fact that Eastman Kodak came out with an instant print camera and sued. As a result, Kodak had to stop making it. I had that camera all of 10 years. I was pìssed then, and I'm STILL pìssed.
Bobbie McMasters 8 months ago
Kohls. 3 days before Christmas they cancelled an order that they had guaranteed for Christmas delivery.
Sarwel Hlaalu 8 months ago
Katjes, because of their aggressive advertising for their vegan products. The ad was an animation of dessicated cows marching (to a military march) into a building that 100% looked like a N**i concentration camp. I'll never buy from a company that uses N**i comparisons diminishing the crimes of that regime! Rügenwalder - again, aggressive vegan ads, and the quality of their actual meat products (Rügenwalder makes sausages, cold cuts and meat pates) has suffered since they concentrate on vegan "alternatives".
zovjraar me 8 months ago
i boycotted KFC for about 10 years because they didn't give me my biscuit. i've only recently forgiven them, and that's only because Popeye's seasoning suddenly got spicy. i refuse to eat chik fil a or go to hobby lobby because my mum is gay. i am now boycotting mcdonalds after they let trump pull that stunt where he pretended to work there.
Otto Katz 8 months ago
Panera. When they were first expanding, everyone was so excited they were coming to our area. We went, I ordered a sandwich but w/o the spread, which included 'caramelized onions', because I'm allergic. It took literally 20 minutes for them to figure out how to make the sandwich w/o the spread. How to NOT put the spread on the sandwich. We finally get our lunches, and sit at a table. I take one bite, and the sandwich is filled with chopped onion. WTEVERLIVINGF. I push it aside, my husband packs up his lunch, I take a 'how are we doing?' card, and we leave. I fill out the card, tell them what happened. Never heard back.THIS WAS 24 YEARS ago, and we've never been back.
Jaya 8 months ago
Boycotting them because 1 employee 20 years ago said or did something you didn't like, even though that employee likely doesn't work there anymore and the rest of the stores wouldn't have been impacted by this 1 employee at all anyway.... Some people really need to get a life.
Mike F 8 months ago
I believe the point is that the issue wasn't addressed promptly. If you go buy a (say) coffee but you are overcharged and the attitude of the management is, "oh well, you should have said something sooner" you're gonna boycott it. Same principle.
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Marianne 8 months ago
I boycott vodafone. I once entered one of their stores when I had a problem with my cell-phone (I was one of the last people who did not yet have a smartphone and I loved my old phone.) The person at the counter told me "Just get a new phone. Every phone is better than this." I cancelled my contract asap.
Gavin Johnson 8 months ago
Wetherspoons, the owner treated his staff like garbage during 2020. Dyson, told everyone to vote leave, as soon as the vote was done he shifted his manufacturing and head office out of the U.K. Nestle y’know the big reason but they now own Buxton water and turn off the free water wells that are in our town if they need to, free wells that have been there for hundreds of years and are what put us on the map. Foxtrot Oscar Nestle Water.
Roxy222uk 8 months ago
Head of Nestle said that access to clean water is 'not a human right' - despicable company. I've boycotted them all my adult life.
Load More Replies... CG 8 months ago
A few for me. Swiss Chalet, a Canadian restaurant chain that specializes in chicken, but served me raw chicken when I ordered from them. McDonald's, just because I found the taste of their burgers to be odd when I reached my teen years (aside from the occasional breakfast my mom gets, I don't I eat McDonald's). Video games from Ubisoft, Activision/Blizzard, and EA, for being the same games on a yearly basis, unethical business practices, monetization over quality, and having a toxic work culture. And Dial A Bottle, for delivering beer 3 days later than when the order was supposed to come in.
Learner Panda 1 day ago
French Connection UK, because they use the initials to spell out the f-b**b, without actually doing that. F**K, you can take a hike, because I won't buy from you.
Kellyann Conway 1 day ago (edited)
I boycott any cleaning or cooking product that create commercials depicting clueless men acting befuddled, and confused about how to cook or clean, and a smiling woman taking over the job for him. Same goes with cleaning products that depict women joyously, mopping their floor and dancing with mop, so happy. What a steaming pant load of patriarchal nonsense.
Jay Cee 2 months ago (edited)
No me but the husband, we'll call him Sam, of my wife's friend and ex-colleague. 1980s UK and Sam owned a successful independent record company - think RONCO but, as I say, successful. A laid back guy comfortable in battered cord jeans and a Pringle sweater. they were interested in buying a new place near Richmond so he stopped by the estate agent for the details of one particular place. Now that day his car was in the shop for a service so he was driving his wife's battered Simca Ranchero jeep. They were very offish and said they were waiting for a reprint of the brochure and one might be available in afew days. So, in a few days, Sam's on his way to an important lunch so is tricked out in an Italian suit and pulls up outside the estate agent in . . . a Porsche 911 Cabrio. Said it stuck in his throat the obsequiousness of it all but they REALLY liked the house and did, in fact, buy it. To this day he swears that was the inspiration for the Rodeo Drive scene in Pretty Woman.
DC and S 8 months ago
Oh man, well, Canadian here. Boycotting products is our new hobby. It's requiring some creativity and restructuring of long standing interprovincial trade regulations, but someone done gone and p*ssed off an entire country and we will not back down or forget anytime soon.
Rich Black 8 months ago
This is the funniest bored panda yet. Half of these are some sort of creative writing challenge, right? And rhe other half drimubks and dropouts. More like this, please!
Fellfromthemoon 8 months ago
This is a long story. My original cell provider (let's call it provider T) went after an ethical hacker, who showed them an important issue. I mean they presssed charges against the guy who saved them and their customers from a pretty serious safety problem. Immediately I changed providers (went to provider U). A few years later my novel cell provider merged with another firm, more precisely, was gobbled up by provider V. Now I needed a new contract with V, and they had the gall to ask a depository that was higher than what I would've paid for the service in a year. I told the representatives that there was Y provider's shop at the next corner, and I would've tried my chance with them. I did and changed my provider again.
Brian Droste 8 months ago (edited)
I boycott Arby's. It's been a few years ago and I didn't have much money at the time this was during March when they had mint milkshakes. It was about 2 days before they were to stop the mint milkshakes. I went in order some food and said I wanted a mint milkshake. The person waited on me said they are not serving them anymore. The manager had decided like a day or two before to stop the employees of offering them. I was not happy because I was looking forward to that milkshake and spend money I really didn't have. I told the person to cancel my order and turn around and walked out.
Devin Schmitt 8 months ago
I have not watched an NBA game since 2008, when the Seattle Supersonics were stolen and moved to Oklahoma.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
I'm still bitter about the Dodgers moving to L.A.
Load More Replies... brittany 8 months ago (edited)
kohls, not for anything they did but the idea of going inside one makes me physically ill. a guy im friends with had an ex who worked there. she ended up giving birth to their baby in the bathroom and dumping it in the trash can. poor thing died. he took it hard and could never get a clear answer on why she did it or why she didn't just give the baby over to him or another family member or even up for adoption. i live literally minutes away from that kohls and will never go in. f*ck you Jessica
Cherise/Bunny (She/they) 8 months ago
Radisson Blu, because they kinda basically bullied away someone I had hotel training with. She was one of the sweetest ladies I've ever met in my life and since then, Radisson Blu pisses me off
Reset Game 8 months ago
CVS - boycotted them for 10 years because the pharmacy technicians no matter where I went screwed up my prescriptions in one way or another. About a month ago, they were 1 of only 3 places open doc appointment to refill a medicine prescription. Made an appointment, drove in for the appointment, went to login and the screen said I had no appointment and no more appointments were available that day. 😡 Never ever walking into a CVS ever again. Any company that donates to Republicans & MAGA PACs
person (i think) 8 months ago
The gas station nearest me doesn’t have those little latches for the gas trigger so you don’t have to stand there holding the gas nozzle the whole time. I asked why not and they gave me a condescending, bs reason, so I have never gone back (12 years)
P1 No-Name 8 months ago
Starbucks, ignoring the fact that their coffee is grim, following the 9/11 attacks, a Starbucks branch in New York charged rescue workers for water. Any company that forbids its staff from using common sense & showing care & humanity is irredeemably despicable.
BrownEyedPanda 8 months ago
Also, they don't support veterans or first responders. But let there be a burglary or fire.....
Load More Replies... G A 8 months ago (edited)
All the charities that have endless TV adverts for hair lips, african wells, old agers, sick pets, endangered wildlife. I willingly support charities but those "feel bad" ones just made me feel guilty then annoyed. There is one that starts "A little kitten, left out to die..." See that on every ad break and it's wearying.
Donna Peluda 8 months ago
Tom cruise movies. Back when I was in my teens I use to go to the movies twice a week..one day I was going with Yoli, my GF and she aske me if Tom Cruise was in it. He wasn't, so she said I'm not going to see a movie till Tom Cruise star in it..so I told her to get foorking Tom Cruise to take her next time. Tom Cruise is not an actor anyway. He's a poser. He doesn't act. He can't act. So fork you Tom
OpheliaPoe 8 months ago
I just assume all of his movies have some hidden scientology recruitment agenda.
Load More Replies... RedHairedDragon 8 months ago
Bored panda, after their premium-launch that basically trashed the site. Now it's too bright, filled with gossip and quizzes, and Amazon-links disguised as articles. Too bad, I came here after C*****d.com went into the dumpster, and now I need a new source of easy entertainment
Julia H 8 months ago
They also c**p all over their sellers. I could write a book on how Amazon screwed us over. We no longer use their platform. Period
Load More Replies... Wysteria_Rose 8 months ago
AT&T. I had tried them once for cheaper internet; worst internet speed and service, so I switched back to my original. Recently, two of their sales guys came to our door. They were very pushy. They even said "well, you may have to ask your husband about the bill, but we could promise you a lower amount." I said, "I know about the bill because I pay it." They looked surprised and said "Well, if you're not happy with your current bill_ _" I said, "I am fine with my bill. It's not bad at all." They seemed so agitated. Last straw was them going "So we'll come on Sunday to give you a routine inspection and offer." I said I did not invite them for that and I was not interested. Finally just shut the door on them because they were not taking the hint.
Mrs.C 8 months ago
I've been boycotting Uncle Ben's rice for 26ish years because they had these strangely s3xual rice bowl commercials in the late 90's (look up Disturbingly 3r0tic Uncle Ben's rice 90's commercials on YouTube). I emailed the company with my concerns about them airing during day time TV and they're response was to send me a bunch of coupons with my name stamped on them. It was weird.
Al Fun 8 months ago
Just went to YouTube to look them up - 🍚 a passion for good food 😆
Load More Replies... John Ambrose-Hemmingway 8 months ago
Kubota Tractor. Just because I'm a white male doesn't mean I want to hear your 70-year-old salesman rant about Mexicans and trans people.
kate h 8 months ago
Bank of America. I had two accounts there and made a mistake writing a check on the wrong one. Fine, my fault and I got an NSF charge. But they didn't inform me for 4 days because they mailed me the info all the while charging me an NSF charge DAILY. I went in and the branch manager "kindly" took off two of the charges. I then "kindly" closed all of my accounts and badmouth them to this day.
Cara Vinson 8 months ago
Starbucks, I was paying $11-12 bucks a day for breakfast and coffee, and they refused to give me a 10cent packet of their new hot sauce because 'only 1 per order'. Screw it, now my breakfast is from Woods and their coffee is so much better! Thank you for your cheap, tiny, petty nonsense Starbucks! You led me to much better coffee.
Betsy S 8 months ago
Nestle's but it's not petty. They killed so many babies in 3rd world countries because of their corporate greed. They stole and as far as I know, continue to steal water from springs they have no license to tap, just to put it into single-use water bottles and sell it back to the people whose taps that water should be coming out of. They are a company with no morals and no integrity. I will go out of my way or wait a very long time to get a product that is NOT a Nestle' product.
Emilu 8 months ago
Was about to say, on the petty scale that’s pretty f*****g low.
Load More Replies... John Dilligaf 8 months ago
Life Savers candy. They changed the flavors in the candy roll back in 2004 or 2005. Haven't eaten any since.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
And they discontinued Butter Rum. Figpuckers.
Load More Replies... Dale Poncy 8 months ago
Disneyland. My wife and I had season passes for 6 years. We renewed for a 7th year but before the old pass expired I was diagnosed with cancer. Then at the same time my wife had a brain aneurism. I called and asked to freeze our passes. They told me they couldn't do that. I explained it was due to medical issues and I wasn't asking for a refund. I was even offering proof from our doctors. I was still refused. This was in 2015. The annual pass was about $1,100/ each. We weren't able to go a single time. I will never go to Disneyland again. Screw that greedy mouse 🐁. And I tell this as often as I can. They screwed me out of $2,200. But I hope by telling this I cost them a little bit of money.
William Teach 8 months ago
State Farm. I had an accident, found out the agent set the deductibles same as my home, $1,000, after begging me to combine home and auto. For which I saved nothing. Then the agent was rude. Dropped auto. Then they dropped my home, and never told me. This was all on the agent, not SF, but, I refuse to use them again nor recommend them (and I work selling autos, we recommend a lot)
Sapna Sarfare 8 months ago
I was meeting a friend at a small cafe type place convinient for both of us. Our simple orders didnt come for half an hour.. not even the soft drinks.. we just left and went to a sizzlers place nearby.. the cafe shut down
BrownEyedPanda 8 months ago
The Polaroid Land Company will never get another nickel of my money. Longstanding grudge from high school. In the late 70's, Kodak came out with an instant print camera called The Handle. You snapped a picture, then you manually cranked it out. It was love at first sight for me. It also took an entire week of hinting to get it as a graduation gift. I had so much fun with it--until..... The Polaroid Land Corporation got their thongs in a bunch over the fact that Eastman Kodak came out with an instant print camera and sued. As a result, Kodak had to stop making it. I had that camera all of 10 years. I was pìssed then, and I'm STILL pìssed.
Bobbie McMasters 8 months ago
Kohls. 3 days before Christmas they cancelled an order that they had guaranteed for Christmas delivery.
Sarwel Hlaalu 8 months ago
Katjes, because of their aggressive advertising for their vegan products. The ad was an animation of dessicated cows marching (to a military march) into a building that 100% looked like a N**i concentration camp. I'll never buy from a company that uses N**i comparisons diminishing the crimes of that regime! Rügenwalder - again, aggressive vegan ads, and the quality of their actual meat products (Rügenwalder makes sausages, cold cuts and meat pates) has suffered since they concentrate on vegan "alternatives".
zovjraar me 8 months ago
i boycotted KFC for about 10 years because they didn't give me my biscuit. i've only recently forgiven them, and that's only because Popeye's seasoning suddenly got spicy. i refuse to eat chik fil a or go to hobby lobby because my mum is gay. i am now boycotting mcdonalds after they let trump pull that stunt where he pretended to work there.
Otto Katz 8 months ago
Panera. When they were first expanding, everyone was so excited they were coming to our area. We went, I ordered a sandwich but w/o the spread, which included 'caramelized onions', because I'm allergic. It took literally 20 minutes for them to figure out how to make the sandwich w/o the spread. How to NOT put the spread on the sandwich. We finally get our lunches, and sit at a table. I take one bite, and the sandwich is filled with chopped onion. WTEVERLIVINGF. I push it aside, my husband packs up his lunch, I take a 'how are we doing?' card, and we leave. I fill out the card, tell them what happened. Never heard back.THIS WAS 24 YEARS ago, and we've never been back.
Jaya 8 months ago
Boycotting them because 1 employee 20 years ago said or did something you didn't like, even though that employee likely doesn't work there anymore and the rest of the stores wouldn't have been impacted by this 1 employee at all anyway.... Some people really need to get a life.
Mike F 8 months ago
I believe the point is that the issue wasn't addressed promptly. If you go buy a (say) coffee but you are overcharged and the attitude of the management is, "oh well, you should have said something sooner" you're gonna boycott it. Same principle.
Load More Replies... Marianne 8 months ago
I boycott vodafone. I once entered one of their stores when I had a problem with my cell-phone (I was one of the last people who did not yet have a smartphone and I loved my old phone.) The person at the counter told me "Just get a new phone. Every phone is better than this." I cancelled my contract asap.
Gavin Johnson 8 months ago
Wetherspoons, the owner treated his staff like garbage during 2020. Dyson, told everyone to vote leave, as soon as the vote was done he shifted his manufacturing and head office out of the U.K. Nestle y’know the big reason but they now own Buxton water and turn off the free water wells that are in our town if they need to, free wells that have been there for hundreds of years and are what put us on the map. Foxtrot Oscar Nestle Water.
Roxy222uk 8 months ago
Head of Nestle said that access to clean water is 'not a human right' - despicable company. I've boycotted them all my adult life.
Load More Replies... CG 8 months ago
A few for me. Swiss Chalet, a Canadian restaurant chain that specializes in chicken, but served me raw chicken when I ordered from them. McDonald's, just because I found the taste of their burgers to be odd when I reached my teen years (aside from the occasional breakfast my mom gets, I don't I eat McDonald's). Video games from Ubisoft, Activision/Blizzard, and EA, for being the same games on a yearly basis, unethical business practices, monetization over quality, and having a toxic work culture. And Dial A Bottle, for delivering beer 3 days later than when the order was supposed to come in.
Learner Panda 1 day ago
French Connection UK, because they use the initials to spell out the f-b**b, without actually doing that. F**K, you can take a hike, because I won't buy from you.
Kellyann Conway 1 day ago (edited)
I boycott any cleaning or cooking product that create commercials depicting clueless men acting befuddled, and confused about how to cook or clean, and a smiling woman taking over the job for him. Same goes with cleaning products that depict women joyously, mopping their floor and dancing with mop, so happy. What a steaming pant load of patriarchal nonsense.
Jay Cee 2 months ago (edited)
No me but the husband, we'll call him Sam, of my wife's friend and ex-colleague. 1980s UK and Sam owned a successful independent record company - think RONCO but, as I say, successful. A laid back guy comfortable in battered cord jeans and a Pringle sweater. they were interested in buying a new place near Richmond so he stopped by the estate agent for the details of one particular place. Now that day his car was in the shop for a service so he was driving his wife's battered Simca Ranchero jeep. They were very offish and said they were waiting for a reprint of the brochure and one might be available in afew days. So, in a few days, Sam's on his way to an important lunch so is tricked out in an Italian suit and pulls up outside the estate agent in . . . a Porsche 911 Cabrio. Said it stuck in his throat the obsequiousness of it all but they REALLY liked the house and did, in fact, buy it. To this day he swears that was the inspiration for the Rodeo Drive scene in Pretty Woman.
DC and S 8 months ago
Oh man, well, Canadian here. Boycotting products is our new hobby. It's requiring some creativity and restructuring of long standing interprovincial trade regulations, but someone done gone and p*ssed off an entire country and we will not back down or forget anytime soon.
Rich Black 8 months ago
This is the funniest bored panda yet. Half of these are some sort of creative writing challenge, right? And rhe other half drimubks and dropouts. More like this, please!
Fellfromthemoon 8 months ago
This is a long story. My original cell provider (let's call it provider T) went after an ethical hacker, who showed them an important issue. I mean they presssed charges against the guy who saved them and their customers from a pretty serious safety problem. Immediately I changed providers (went to provider U). A few years later my novel cell provider merged with another firm, more precisely, was gobbled up by provider V. Now I needed a new contract with V, and they had the gall to ask a depository that was higher than what I would've paid for the service in a year. I told the representatives that there was Y provider's shop at the next corner, and I would've tried my chance with them. I did and changed my provider again.
Brian Droste 8 months ago (edited)
I boycott Arby's. It's been a few years ago and I didn't have much money at the time this was during March when they had mint milkshakes. It was about 2 days before they were to stop the mint milkshakes. I went in order some food and said I wanted a mint milkshake. The person waited on me said they are not serving them anymore. The manager had decided like a day or two before to stop the employees of offering them. I was not happy because I was looking forward to that milkshake and spend money I really didn't have. I told the person to cancel my order and turn around and walked out.
Devin Schmitt 8 months ago
I have not watched an NBA game since 2008, when the Seattle Supersonics were stolen and moved to Oklahoma.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
I'm still bitter about the Dodgers moving to L.A.
Load More Replies... brittany 8 months ago (edited)
kohls, not for anything they did but the idea of going inside one makes me physically ill. a guy im friends with had an ex who worked there. she ended up giving birth to their baby in the bathroom and dumping it in the trash can. poor thing died. he took it hard and could never get a clear answer on why she did it or why she didn't just give the baby over to him or another family member or even up for adoption. i live literally minutes away from that kohls and will never go in. f*ck you Jessica
Cherise/Bunny (She/they) 8 months ago
Radisson Blu, because they kinda basically bullied away someone I had hotel training with. She was one of the sweetest ladies I've ever met in my life and since then, Radisson Blu pisses me off
Reset Game 8 months ago
CVS - boycotted them for 10 years because the pharmacy technicians no matter where I went screwed up my prescriptions in one way or another. About a month ago, they were 1 of only 3 places open doc appointment to refill a medicine prescription. Made an appointment, drove in for the appointment, went to login and the screen said I had no appointment and no more appointments were available that day. 😡 Never ever walking into a CVS ever again. Any company that donates to Republicans & MAGA PACs
person (i think) 8 months ago
The gas station nearest me doesn’t have those little latches for the gas trigger so you don’t have to stand there holding the gas nozzle the whole time. I asked why not and they gave me a condescending, bs reason, so I have never gone back (12 years)
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