Someone Asks “What Is Your ‘Never Again’ Brand, Item, Store, Or Restaurant?” And 45 People Don’t Hold Back

I really loathe people I don't know calling me pet names. One of my college students did that once. After a short "chat," she never did it again. So inappropriate in a professional setting!

I call EVERYONE babe, honey, sweetie, and dear. I really need to stop because I'm not old enough for it to be a grandmotherly thing, it just sounds condescending. But usually it's not intended like that! *cries*

The CEO of Home Depot is a MAGA. So good luck getting anywhere there.

Just wait until you’re a senior and they start calling you “dear”. Would never do that to a male customer.

For real. The only person who got to call me honey was my husband.

Agreed. What a crappy situation. I suspect that it was a crappy Home Depot specific to the OP's area. I have 4 Home Depot's near me and almost half the employees are female, especially on the front end where the special orders are done. My wife goes in regularly for specifics like the OP and has never encountered anything like this. I hope the Home Depot the OP is referring to gets cleaned up soon.

I have a strong feeling it was an elderly female employee at Home Depot, who kept calling OP "honey" because she thought that OP, being female, would have minimal DIY knowledge/experience. I could be wrong, but I feel like, since the Me Too movement, men probably shy away from calling women they aren't related to "Honey". Maybe that is just wishful thinking on my part.

when you work for some place and you are out dealing with customers directly, you ARE the face of the company so even if you aren't the company itself, you make the company as a whole look bad(or good) depending on your attitude, knowledge and willingness to be helpful.

Absolutely. Whoever manages it will imprint his own values and hire people who share them.

That is correct, my daughter worked at Lowes in college, so I tried to be loyal. Her store is the most knowledgeable and helpful store in the chain. All other in that chain I've been in act like they are doing you a favor just speaking to you.

If it is the people, it IS the company

Take a million of my upvotes!

Good to know!

A serious observation from my part. Every time I visit Lowes, it is empty...

This list is not complete, at least the Swedish brand "Hälsans kök" (kitchen of health) is not on the list. We accidentally bought that brand and then realised when we took it out of thre freezer. tumblr_sta...sok4wc.jpg

Yes it is. And even if some thousand people were to boycott Nestle it would hardly make a difference I`m afraid. Half the world population would be needed to bring them down.

Nestle may be difficult to boycott in some countries, but in the UK it's easy for anyone with tastebuds. Up until recently I didn't buy anything Nestle, and only do now because my cat only eats Felix. Their chocolate is terrible, their cereal is worse than every "knock-off" of it, coffee is no better than supermarket versions, etc...

That is the problem a lot of times. Huge corporations bought out all the small companies. They’re almost monopolies. 20 years ago Kraft was Kraft, and now they own half of the supermarket shelves. Pepsi and Coke as corporations own a huge amount of real estate sometimes not even relating to soda!

It is made harder by the fact that Monsanto owns Nestle and then owns some many other things that boycotting Nestle doesn't mean you are not buying from sister companies

It's very easy to boycott. Do a little research and stop buying their producta.

Naw. Just do a lil research. Put forth a little bit of effort

If you don’t use processed garbage foods or drinks it’s pretty easy to avoid nestle, my family has been doing it for years and it’s fairly simple to keep up with.

Excellent point. At least if you buy generic. You’re giving them less money if they are the processor of that generic.

Do the research and you can do a darn good job at avoiding Nestle and one of the MANY companies they own.

Easy way to fix that - just steal everything they make!

You should read up on what they do in India, pumping water to fill up bottled water resulting in village fountains no longer running so forcing people to spend money they don't have to buy something they stole from them. And polluting the environment with their damn plastic.

Yes...I worked for them (NWNA) at that time. Chilling

I wouldn't go so far as to blame all employees. Some may not have better options, and bills don't care if you don't want to work for bad people.

unrelated but nice Adora pfp

But why did he hate Uno? Met his ex there or bad pizza place?

That was considerate of them. Wishing you good health. 💐

Their marriage

Better yet, when you sign up use a prepaid gift card with enough funds on it for one year. They’ll pull money from that each month not knowing it’s not your normal card and then you’ll get to decide whether to give them a new card number next year.

Yep, I had to do the same

Correct. This is not just planet fitness issue. It’s all gym chains that I noticed.

How is that a decent or logical way to run a business? Planet Fitness sounds horrible!

Are they owned by AOL or ADT? Both of those are nightmare companies to cancel as well.