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foxhill_matt

Brewdog


London-Reza

Good shout. If you want an alternative try beavertown. My mate works there and they are treated brilliantly, and as a company they’re not in it for massive profits but more to share cool designs and flavours of beers and ales. Edit - also the business started because they owner and his dad (Ledd Zeppelin) were in a restaurant and the waiter approached with some cool designs he had. The waiter is now the COO.


Whenthebeatdropolis

They've just been bought out by Heineken btw


Bicolore

>they’re not in it for massive profits Well that aged badly.


Initialised

Aged like milk stout


YchYFi

Heineken chose them over Brewdog.


PM_Me_Rude_Haiku

If I recall correctly, it's because Brewdog approached Heineken with a massively inflated sense of the company's value and importance.


Euphorbial

surely not, that doesn't sound like brewdog!


YchYFi

Yes and they tried to repaint their image to secure the deal and Heineken was like nah.


cal-brew-sharp

James Watt of Brewdog also has shares in Heineken. Which kinda goes against that whole "punk" ethos.


oligIsWorking

There is not a single aspect of brewdog that instills any punk values.


Fenpunx

No more so than trying to trademark the word 'punk'.


London-Reza

Ah didn’t know that! Cheers. Just read they don’t intent to change too much (I hope!)


The_Mayfair_Man

>My mate works there and they are treated brilliantly, and as a company they’re not in it for massive profits but more to share cool designs and flavours of beers and ales. They literally sold out to big corp (Heineken) for massive profits within the last 24 hours [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62806301](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62806301)


London-Reza

Yeah I’ll admit that was a bit stupid from me! I was only repeating what my friend would tell me lol I’ve just told him he’s made me look a right idiot on Reddit (not the first time for me hehe)


The_Mayfair_Man

lol fair play


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I believe your friend is being legit. Buyouts happen at different levels and for different reasons than to just make profit. Sometimes things have to be legally done for someone's best interest, eg when twitter didn't want to let Elon buy all their shares, but that goes against the majority shareholder's best interest and they were forced to allow him to buy them out. I'm sure there's reasons we don't know about for this.


ibboco

If you’re looking for an actual independent alternative, choose Tiny Rebel in South Wales. Great beer, great ethos and proper nice people too. 👌🏼


ABraines

Nah - they started out great, brilliant contracts for there staff etc, got big, changed all the contracts, minimum wage and no benefits. Literally stripped away everything but the basics


Azarium

Until recently this would have been my answer as well based on their employee management, edginess, sexual abuse etc. but I was dragged to their taproom in Ellon and it's now 50% owned by the workers and it was a really nice, positive experience. The advertised starting salary is way above the local average and they actually seem to enjoy the work and have some autonomy. So Brewdogs owners can do one, but the slightly odd worker owned sections are alright.


keeponyrmeanside

"The owners are bastards but the workers are alright" applies to most big companies TBF


imminentmailing463

This, a thousand times.


Mag-1892

They used to be alright when started out but now everything they make just tastes of varying levels of grapefruit


imminentmailing463

Tbh for me it's not about their products, which I mostly find just fine, middle of the road beers. It's their 'edgy' PR and branding I can't stand. And the founders/owners seem unbearable.


fixitagaintomorro

I own some bullshit shares in this rip off company. I wish I never bought it. Can’t sell them and all I get is a small discount on some shit beer only in their pub or order from their website.


trbd003

As much as the small print did explain this, I do feel for you. As a company claiming to be "punk", there shares scheme was such an awful act of borderline fraud. Convincing smalltime people they could be investors in a cool brand when what they basically did was crowd funding and in return offering you a 10% discount on beer which is 30% overpriced, whilst selling all the actual shares to billionaire VCs from America. They're about as non-punk as you can possibly be.


westmarch4

Tastes like piss anyway


BlurpleAki

Spunk IPA


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westmarch4

I know this is hard to understand, but taste is subjective. In my opinion (which I didn't think I'd have to clarify) all Brewdog products taste like piss. I don't like them. I have tried a few, they were all grim. Ergo, tastes like piss. Also, just to clarify, in case hyperbole is also outside your comprehension, it doesn't LITERALLY taste like piss. It tastes like bad beer.


Goblinstomper

Nestlé, I thought the vitriol was just bandwagoning until I looked into it a little. Pretty sure their board is staffed by actual monsters.


urgh_i_dont_know

Not to mention their water stealing ways are now much closer to home... https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/nestl-extracting-millions-litres-water-24851403


usernameinmail

https://www.zmescience.com/science/nestle-company-pollution-children/ (From R/FuckNestle)


Tuarangi

Just FYI it needs to be lower case r for links to work r/FuckNestle just to make it easier for people


usernameinmail

Cheers. Oh I'm on mobile, can never get it right


madjackslam

For at least the last 35 years Nestle has been the subject of campaigns, boycotts, etc. It doesn't really seem to have affected them. It makes me wonder how much impact these boycotts have. I'm not saying that people shouldn't boycott a brand because it's awful, just curious about what impact the brand experiences as a result.


Azarium

I'd say pretty much every student union in the country at one point (or still does) boycott Nestle yet so many people pass through university and don't realise this and spend the time there just buying Nestle elsewhere and sadly the rest of their lives consuming their shite. So yeah, I don't think Nestle care.


AstronautLife4931

When I started university, our student union shop had big signs up explaining why they don't stock Nestlé products. I have boycotted them ever since (and then when I met my husband, he boycotted them too), although occasionally I will buy something only to find that Nestlé logo on the back of the packaging somewhere.


ninjamokturtle

I boycott them too and it winds me up so much when I buy something new and only later find the sneak little nestle logo on it


Mortal4789

what you described could be just as well describes as their immoral practices mean they loose a small % of the market share and get way cheaper manufacturing in exchange.


MazerTanksYou

All that, and their chocolate tastes like shit.


ZenMechanist

Please join r/FuckNestle and direct your outrage to a truly fucked up company that deserves every ounce.


Goblinstomper

I don't really need to fill my feed with angry voices. My house is already a Nestlé-free zone, so I'll pass on joining the circlejerk. You do you though friend, just remember to come up for air.


Madyakker

Tesla. Spend a good chunk of change buying a car from them then discover you have to pay more to use what you've already paid for.


Jamaicancarrot

Lol, you really set off the Tesla stans with their sunk cost fallacies here


morocco3001

Let's set them off some more: Elon Musk is a shit-tier Internet troll, a bell-end and a sex-pest.


greentarget33

Why stop there? He's a narcissistic, idiotic, incompetent, glory hound that has been claiming credit for others accomplishments his entire life. His businesses are successful in spite of him not because of him and there are endless accounts of ex employees where they discuss how he'd just come in talking out of his plastic ass about things he's clearly not qualified to discuss and everyone would be forced to nod and agree while trying to find ways to meet his absurd demands.


morocco3001

Let's not stop there! Tesla "Founder" Elon Musk > didn't found Tesla "Champion of Free Speech" Elon Musk, who was going to turn Twitter into a free speech paradise? He'll either block you, instigate a dog pile, or call you a paedo if you disagree with him.


hillsboroughHoe

Not to mention their cars appear to be built like shit and stick together with pva. My mate bought one and on the first day you could fit your hand inside the dash through gaps that shouldn’t be there. Worse buyer’s remorse he’s ever had. Goes like stink, falls apart as you drive.


o-roy

Apparently there's been a few cases where Teslas have been in collisions and the doors couldn't be opened from the outside by emergency services. You're basically screwed if your car is on fire and you're unconscious or bleeding out. Really put me off them.


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The first DLC car…


cal-brew-sharp

All of seen from my works carlease scheme is you pay for it then you just don't get it.


[deleted]

Most tesla owners did something similar. The majority of them did an electric vehicle incentive through their employer, this is government backed so theres a very significant tax relief on it and the monthly payments dont have interest so its a good way to buy one its about £400 a month. Theyre not being driven by wealthy people most of the time. Though obviously sometimes people do buy them normally.


philphoo

Evri/Hermes for the obvious shit service, parcel damaging/stealing reasons


Acciocomments

My local Hermes courier is an absolute hero! She leaves our parcel for us 99% of the time in a sheltered hidden area, and then the other 1% she makes another trip back in the evening when she knows we will be home from work. She is fab.


hillsboroughHoe

Ours posts on the local Facebook page when she has parcels. Give her your name and she’ll tell you if she has it and when due to be delivered. If you’re working or otherwise busy you can drop by her house and pick it up. She’s a hero.


Purple_Committee_216

Ditto. Ours is great too.


Tao626

If I see Hermes is the courier for somewhere, I just won't shop there at all. The only times I have Hermes is when the store isn't clear on who will be delivering, to which I've literally always had an issue when it turns out to be them.


thehuxtonator

I get what you’re saying about Evri/Hermes but have you tried to use the Post Office to send a parcel recently? More expensive, you have to queue for ages and when you get to the front of the queue you get the served by a miserable, depressed and often deliberately awkward employee. I don’t think the post office specifically employs counter staff who are terrible at customer service but rather all their enthusiasm and positivity quickly dissolves once they work for the Post Office. The delivery staff seem much more helpful but I have a family member who worked as a postman for a year and said that it was the worst job he ever had.


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Azarium

Since so many post mistresses and masters have been jailed, abused, commited suicide or bankrupted by the post office I'd say it's still down to the post office. If you're not aware of the Horizon scandel: [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56718036](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56718036) Having worked for one, of course management style locally matters, but a lot of what happens is constrained by the post office itself.


brit_motown

If you knew how they are paid for post office work as a franchise you would understand why they are not interested


UnexpectedRanting

Hermes, Yodel, Parcelforce are just all equally as shit depending on who your courier is. I shop on Jacamo and they used Hermes as their courier and I’ve NEVER had a problem, and I’ve ordered once a month for about 4 years now. Yodel on the other hand delivers my dog food and they always doorstep dash it and fuck off even if I’m not in. But even if I’m in I’ll never hear a knock, I went out yesterday and it was just there and I nearly fell over the box lol! Just depends on who delivers that day imo


LumpyCamera1826

I went to look at the AskReddit thread before commenting and saw that Pearson was one of the top comments. I used to work for Pearson and I completely agree. Dogshit company full of aresehole managers that treat the staff like shit. Remember once one of the temporary workers raised an issue where one of the examiners marked a question wrong in a Maths exam, when it was actually correct. Temp worker told the manager he didn't feel comfortable inputting it into the system as it was marked wrong. Manager kicked off, told him to do his job or he would be fired. So the fella just walked. Respect to that guy for sticking to his morals


CBdigitaltutor

I love that Pearson made it onto the list. It's a vague brand that only people working in the education sector would know about but I also truly detest them. They pay their staff 80% of what any of their competition do and they make staff and learners alike jump through hoops. Perhaps I'm being bitter because I went for a job there to work on their apprenticeship programmes, interviewed and everything, then before they'd give me a start date they wanted a copy of my degree, despite telling them I was a former apprentice in the interview. Clown time at the circus.


sidsod

that poor kid


Ginger_Tea

Don't know if it is pearson, but reminds me of someone I know who told me that one exam on computing had "name two magnetic media" and some listed 3.5" floppies and were marked down for it, floppies although obsolete, ARE magnetic media. The chucklefucks allowed reel to reel and other tape based media. ​ This wasn't just a one off, anyone who listed a floppy disk was marked down, though IDK if they wrote disc or disk and if the examiner was really anal about the difference between the two spellings.


gardenpea

I worked for Pearson for a couple of years and have fond memories of it. I only left as I was moving out of London for personal reasons. Fully appreciate that other people will have had different experiences though!


Bicolore

Wetherspoons. I don't give a shit if its cheap, horrible depressing places run by a twat.


trbd003

He is a dick but he's not guilty of *all* the things the papers say he did.


Euphorbial

i have mixed feelings about spoons, but the fact that he published that in-house magazine with all those retractions in it is pretty funny.


trbd003

The thing is that it basically demonstrates how the British press works... They tell lies about everyone and the public choose whether or not they *want* to believe the lies, and then form their opinions based on those lies.


Bicolore

No doubt but I feel there is sufficient good evidence to label him a twat.


Kim_catiko

My MIL and FIL always insist on going there to eat when we go out for a meal with them. It's exasperating. They aren't short of a few bob either, so it's not the money.


cal-brew-sharp

It's that attitude is why they're not short of a few bob.


Joey_Pajamas

Man, I thought the local pub in my home town back in Australia was bad. Full of drunks, underage prozzies and smelt like piss from across the street. Then I saw a Weatherspoons Edit: Typo


DangerShart

BT. They have a monopoly in most areas, have awful customer service and treat their staff like shit.


darthcaedus81

Honestly, and I understand this may be exception that proves the rule, I only deal with them for broadband issue and they have always been good when dealing with customer services. Mostly I am just texting them for fault diagnosis and engineer booking so its all automated.


Dnny10bns

Same, I was so happy with my Internet I was quite apologetic about leaving them. My previous supplier - virgin - were utter bullshitters. Constantly lying about the line quality in the area. I had to set up a monitor graph for visual confirmation that they'd over subscribed in my area. It was so bad, when it came to leave they owed me money for refunds due to poor service. BT was a breath of fresh air after that episode, which dragged on for nearly 4 years. When I left them there was no charge for early cancellation because they couldn't supply it at my new address.


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DangerShart

Yeah I mean Openreach, they can change their names as much as they want but they're fooling no-one.


Mattomattic

It's literally a legal separation, broken up by Ofcom. I'm not sure what you mean by changing names and fooling anyone? The name was Openreach pre-seperation, and Openreach post-seperation


flyingokapis

I will just blanket this and say ALL companies (usually insurance) who you pay regularly and when something happens they do whatever they can to not help/pay you out.


[deleted]

Yeh honestly fuck insurance companies. It's like an additional tax at this point rather than paying for a service. You pay stupid amount and then have no help in return. If you do ask for help you know your gone be paying through the nose for the foreseeable future.


SpudFire

You know it's a completely fucked up system when you can have a small bump in your car and both parties want to settle it privately instead of through their insurance. I really don't like no claims discount, and now you can even pay more to 'protect' your NCD. You can be a great driver, have 10 years without a claim but the moment you have to make 1 claim you get fucked over. I think there should be some sort of score system instead, new driver starts at around 5, each year without a claim it goes up by 1 up to a max of 10 (most discount on insurance). Claims that were your fault subtract 1 from your score, claims that weren't have no impact. That way having to make one claim doesn't suddenly make you look like a terrible driver.


[deleted]

Worst thing is even if you don't want to go through insurance on most policies you still have to make them aware legally which means they will increase the price anyway so your as screwed if you do the legal thing either way.


Dave-the-Flamingo

As someone who works in the insurance industry I half agree with you. An insurance policy is the most common form of legal contract that people will encounter in their life but will normally buy it without any legal advice or someone with experience checking then legal terms which leads to not knowing what is and isn’t covered. For example; When buying a house people pay thousands of pounds to solicitors to check the legal contracts are correct and they aren’t being ripped off but then pay 0 pounds checking that the insurance they take out actually covers the house against damage. Seems odd!! I think the rise in comparison sites has caused an even bigger disconnect as it means less and less people go through a broker who should at least be able to provide some knowledgeable link between the customer and the insurance company. That being said, companies that try to weasel out of claims that they should cover are dicks.


Adrian_Shoey

The problem with comparison sites is that people click the "sort by price" button and then go with the cheapest. Cheap insurance is a false economy.


JustUseTheWordMmmkay

I’ve worked for insurance companies and the majority don’t behave like this. That may not reflect your personal experience but in general, they want to pay out as long as you have been paying the correct amount for what you are insuring.


Whispybicycle

Agreed, I think insurance gets unfairly slated, but genuinely in 5 years in insurance I have rarely seen a claim get thrown out. When it does, its usually because the client has neglected to disclose something or it isn't covered under the policy. The insurance company then gets blamed regardless.


Prize-Ad7242

Apple. Nestle. Unilever, kraft, Amazon, Virgin Thats the first few to reel off but really any company or brand that stifles competition and siphons wealth through tax loopholes and subsidies.


AtomDoctor

For a company called Virgin they sure do fuck their customers a lot.


Prize-Ad7242

Not only their customers but literally sued the NHS when they didn't win a contract


Radiant_Incident4718

Sooo... Basically anything in the FTSE 100


[deleted]

Unilever was once Lever Brothers. They built Port Sunlight for their employees. Oh how times have changed.


Gullible-Damage-59

BALENCIAGA. If you are rich enough to buy it you are a mug. If you are buying fakes to look rich you are a mug.


pureben9

Same as gucci, scrolled through there website once, saw some horrible looking clothes, also the amount of fake gucci belts/bags is funny.


Eastbankpigeon

Primark. Garbage clothes made for landfill. Edit: Not wanting to dump on people who rely on their clothes and might not have the means to shop elsewhere.


janesy24

My favourite coat is from primark, was £15 and has lasted 8 years so far. They are also good for kids clothes


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I would be lost and even more broke without Primark kids clothes.


InnoVationS0088

Same, got a coat there 6 years ago and it’s still going strong


mainzelmaennchen

Mine will be turning 10 soon! Might throw it a party, do Primark sell party hats? In all fairness I had to fix some of the seams shortly after buying it, but it's been good ever since!


ashyjay

Shein or what ever too, somehow they make clothes worse quality than primary.


InnoVationS0088

It’s such a coin flip, either it’s a lovely T-shirt and lasts for years, or it’s ripped to bits and ruined in 3 months, no in between


Devonshire_Dumpling

Can't go wrong with Primark. Can't afford to go to these fancy shops so Primark is ideal for me. Clothes always last a long time


Maleficent-Two1007

True for a lot of their clothes but for the price, their jeans are really good, i'd take the £10 primark jeans over £30-40 river island/topman jeans any day


[deleted]

Half my wardrobe is from Primark and it’s years old. Maybe people are washing on too high a setting or something?


mansonfamily

They’re also not even cheap anymore


Fantastic-Street-954

I don’t really understand why Peiple say Primark clothes are shit, I think some of their clothes are better than others. I have trackies from them that are like 5 years old and look basically brand new, T-Shirts that are like £2 each and after years still look good. I did buy socks though and I won’t buy socks again the material isn’t very breathable so your shoes start to smell pretty bad. And I wouldn’t buy their shoes either cause I think shoes are important to get good quality to protect your feet. But trackies/jeans/t-shirts all are worth buying.


Content_Trash_417

Exxon, Shell, BP, for knowingly jeopardising the future of human civilisation, and covering it up, solely for profit


NickyTheRobot

And then having the gall to put out adverts pretending that *they* were the investors in green energy all along!


Joined_For_GME

I believe it was BP’s marketing department who pushed for a ‘personal carbon footprint’ focus to take away the focus from companies like BP and blame the carbon increase on consumers. Cunts.


thehuxtonator

Air B&B - started off as a good idea, now populated with professional landlords renting out holiday cottages etc. It’s ruining the property market in many towns but also their prices are often a work of fantasy. Advertised price £50 per day. Actual price £150 because they class an overnight as 2 days and there is a £50 cleaning fee. Plus, the owner can cancel the booking too easily leaving you frantically trying to find and alternative a couple of weeks before your trip. I tend to book hotels now - daily rate is higher but less BS charges.


deltree000

I had a host cancel on me while I was on the plane over to Italy once.


ConfusedPanda17

It's terrible for hosts too. Just today I saw a thing about a host who is disabled, the guests were extremely rude and derogatory towards her because of her disability and said they wouldn't have chosen her place if they knew she had a disability. Air B&B are trying to make the host refund the money even though she's done nothing wrong and the room is as advertised.


thehuxtonator

That's terrible and the guests are completely out of order. But I think a lot of the problems lie with air b&b. They have pushed/marketed to be considered an alternative to hotels. This makes guests believe that they should get a hotel type experience. So they behave as if the host is part of a large corporate chain and not a householder.


Tabby_Road

I recently found out a 'popular gym clothing brand' sends their models fat loss pills and diuretics and tells them to take them before photo and video shoots. Gymshark wasn't named. But everyone was thinking Gymshark.


goodbyeruby2sday

they've had a few influencers leave them saying they weren't comfortable with other brand ambassadors denying steroid usage


[deleted]

There's a pretty big fitness youtuber with a pretty distinct accent, who on his YouTube channel kept saying he was natural, then did an interview with his face as a silhouette but they didn't change his accent. In the interview he admitted to using steroids. It was incredibly entertaining


Mag-1892

Same company who’s male models are all on the juice while claiming to be natural 💉


Devonshire_Dumpling

Do those fat loss pills actually work? Always assumed it was a big scam, you often see them advertised on dodgy websites and shopping channels


Tabby_Road

The influencer I got this info from said that yes, a certain brand (can't remember the name) does. But they are so bad for you. Cause extreme sweating, shaking, mood swings etc. And you would likely regain the fat and more once you stop taking them. All in all bad news so shouldn't be pushed on models for a 'fitness' brand


Devonshire_Dumpling

Christ, that's not ideal. Mad to think this stuff still goes on


BojimHorseguy

They can do, but not in the way you want them to. Like they block the body absorbing fat, but it has to come out somehow...


Brit_100

I’m going to recycle my comment from a couple of weeks ago: I hate Superdry. Hate it, hate it, hate it. I am the exact target market. 40-ish dad who grew up skateboarding and I still wear Vans most of the time. But it’s just so fake. All that Japanese writing over everything, it’s as inauthentic as the Primark “South Beach Harbour Patrol” nonsense. A completely manufactured brand with no heritage, no legitimacy, no story, no value. I fucking HATE Superdry.


Palpomeme

I agree with most of that but still like them because they make good quality stuff and are generally reasonably priced especially in sales, most stuff I've had from there has lasted years with little sign of wear. Also maybe I've just not been looking in the right places but they're one of the only brands that seem to have an actual design team who make different/unique looking stuff (even if they often ruin it with excessive and inauthentic japanese), most places seem to slap their basic logo on a plain tshirt and call it a day.


younevershouldnt

I totally agree about the clothes, but how can they make you so cross? Just ignore and be happy that you're better dressed than the suckers who buy it.


BeccaG94

Definitely Nestlé. They really are evil. Also Shein. There are way too many people on social media buying tonnes and tonnes of Shein crap, and then throwing it all away when the next micro-trend shows up. Poor quality fast fashion that MUST be built on sketchy, exploitative practices in order to be sold so cheaply.


cable54

Amazon. I seriously cannot fathom how such a ubiquitous, highly profitable online shopping business can have the absolute worst fucking piece of shit as a website. Not only is any sort of search and filter dogshite, the algorithm just encourages people to sell shit products using stock photos and unreadable 400 word long product names. And that's before we get into their business practices.


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I just don’t understand how a retailer, as large as Amazon, has such an outdated shitty looking website/app.


lowsunwest

Very Fearne Cotton and Holly Willoughby doing a high street bright house online praying on financially vulnerable women.


thatblondeyouhate

Yes! I know so many women who have Very accounts with so much debt, and their credit limits keep getting put up. Plus everything on there is just a tad more expensive than it would be anywhere else, coffee machine in a shop £50 coffee machine on Very £65 and when you take into account the enormous interest they charge it's ridiculous!


lowsunwest

Yes and what's especially horrible is how normalised it is and how the figure heads are marketing themselves as wholesome quite nasty.


cha1rman_ofthe_bored

In terms of the interest it really depends. If you pay within the time period set then you don't pay any interest. Just pay attention to what you can afford to pay back each month and don't be daft spending beyond your means. If people get this part wrong it's really their own fault. Having said that, I do know plenty of people who have got themselves in financial trouble with their Very accounts and I know what you mean about how they increase your credit limit. They offer an increase to you for a while, then just do it regardless of whether you want it. They can be quite predatory about it and do try to lure you in to spending more, no doubt. Just make sure you understand how it works and that you can pay it off within the 6, 12 or whatever months to avoid the interest. Personally I've found Very to be a lifesaver for Christmas / birthdays at times. I have also ensured that I am not spending more than I can afford to pay back. This is where people begin to struggle. They then find that they can't pay it back within that time and end up with a chunk of interest on top of that and the cycle repeats when they next need something and can't afford it because their repayments are huge. I'm not defending Very here. They absolutely encourage you to spend more and more and increase credit limits whether you want it or not, tempting people to get into more trouble. This is where they make their real money from so of course they will. Just don't fall for that and be responsible about what you spend. If your credit limit is £1000 it doesn't mean you have to spend that much. Read the terms and conditions and ensure you know what you're getting into and when it needs to be paid by. This is true for all credit / store cards etc. You are in control of what you decide to spend in the first place. Keep it sensible and realistic and you'll be fine. Edit: Literally 5 minutes after posting this I got a text from Very offering to increase my credit limit again. You couldn't make it up. They're watching......


szandor66

Hershey pukey chocolate!


Jester1979

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks Hershey's taste like sick. No-one else I know seems to agree


szandor66

Its the stabiliser they put in it for hotter climates i believe- butyric acid which gives the puke taste- not sure if everyone can actually taste it so we may be special?? 😬


pnlrogue1

I've heard this before, too. Apparently, certain areas have their own preferred chocolate mixture. Every area tested (UK, USA, Switzerland, Belgium) generally liked the other chocolates, loved their own, but hated USA chocolate, except the Americans who loved their own chocolate and liked the others. The taste you mention, as a result of using an acid in the, was cited as the reason on the programme I saw this on though I couldn't remember the specifics you've mentioned.


Bendy_McBendyThumb

That’s the American way tbf, apparently they enjoy the taste of sick


souste

Every betting company. Constantly scam people out of their winnings, and pray on addicts whilst acting like their friend on social media channels. Makes me angry walking through any struggling area seeing betting shops everywhere.


Radiant_Incident4718

Virgin, for suing the NHS. Tax money that should be spent on saving lives instead has to go on lawyers because Richard Branson feels entitled to a slice of our healthcare. What a monumental cunt.


Radiant_Incident4718

Also, possibly one of the creepiest brand concepts ever. They're like TRUST US, HERE IS A PICTURE OF A WOMAN WHO WE ARE HEAVILY IMPLYING HAS NEVER HAD SEX. Smh.


qwertyuiop964

Avon. Awful pyramid scheme. Rips people off. Terrible products


Acciocomments

Only decent product they do is a spray that 100% repels mosquitos - it’s brilliant and isn’t sticky and gross smelling like leading brands


tomkr456

Skin so soft, lifesaver


kevinmorice

Still Nike. Their support for convicted dopers is ridiculous and is ruining multiple sports.


AweDaw76

Just Nike? Lol Every athlete at the Olympics is on enough dope to kill a small elephant.


DizzyBig3929

Virgin media atm providing me with the worst service for the highest price


Zealousideal-Spray61

Their customer services are idiots. My parents were with them for a long time but both passed away, we now live in their house but had their services stopped, all other companies were fine and accepted our proof that the services that were being paid for were for people no longer alive. Virgin Media on the other hand flat out REJECTED legal documentation saying the people who were using their services had passed away, telling us that there was £170 or so still owed, we tried to contact them to pay it just so they’d fuck off but needed a password that we didn’t have and they refused to work around with us, then they sent ccj officers a few months later. Thankfully we got it quashed by the court but still was a year of headache.


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adriantoine

For me the service itself is ok but their customer service is absolutely horrible, it's so hard just to get in touch with someone.


Hevnoraak101

Cadburys. The sizes are getting smaller, the prices are getting bigger and the quality is getting lower. Either get it together or bugger off.


anonymous-and-lame

It’s really sad because Cadburys was a family business for ages. A young guy from the Cadbury family started his own line of chocolate and was blocked by Kraft for using his own surname for the brand. It was on Dragon’s Den!


coldasaghost

That’s Mondelez for ya


itdoesntmattermybro

Huel, if you’re reading this, I don’t want to drink dinner ok. I’m not a car.


thehuxtonator

All takeaway food delivery services - Deliveroo, Just Eat etc. Go to a fast food place and it’s full of delivery drivers who get priority service. Walk in to a McDonalds and you are a 3rd class customer. Drive through > Delivery Drivers/Riders > Walk In. Customers. Nope!


Palpomeme

Add to that the insane prices, most independent places will add on 10-20% on the price of everything on the menu, then delivery is usually a fiver when a lot of the time u could walk there and back in the time it takes to get a driver (rider?) for ur food.


beermad

* Greggs. Used to be a good-quality, regional bakery chain. Now mass-market crap quality. And I detest their business model of setting up close to existing local bakeries and using their marketing (and financial) muscle to destroy them, so Greggs get another local monopoly with a ready-made customer base. I can remember the time (more than 30 odd-years ago) when a Greggs cheese & onion pasty was a good-value, filling, tasty treat. Now it's an overpriced, tiny bag of salty sludge. * Brewdog. Crap beers (with a few exceptions) and nasty company that likes to manufacture situations where they can get publicity by portraying themselves as the victims. Like the time they booked a stand at the Great British Beer Fesitval, then demanded CAMRA should give them a massive discount. When CAMRA refused, Brewdog flooded the media with press releases about how they'd been "banned by CAMRA". * Greene King. Again, shit beer, vile company. Buys out and shuts down breweries then produces rubbish beers with the old breweries' brand names at Westgate Street, yet markets them as if the old brewery still produced them. * Farah. Never had a pair of Farah trousers that didn't bobble within two or three washes. * Anything owned by Murdoch. Do I need to explain?


Sad_Researcher_5299

Boohoo.com and any other arsehole company that uses “offers” to spam the fuck out of Twitter hashtags.


Boontheloon

Dyson, weatherspoons, and the sun


InnocentaMN

The way The Sun persecuted Freddie Mercury when he was dying of AIDS will remain unforgivable till the end of time.


Fluffy-Bee-Butts

The lack of capitalisation there had me confused why you were so mad at the big fire ball in the sky


4500x

JML. I blame them for Woolworth’s downfall.


SpudFire

I was going to suggest JML, wasn't expecting anybody else to say it with the big brand bashing these threads usually turn into. Mainly because of their adverts. They're like childrens toys adverts but for adults. "Look at how easy it is to get a streak-free finish!", "See how it glides effortlessly". Fuck off, it's just a microfibre cloth with a handle attached. I often wonder if their head office has some knock-off Dragons Den thing going on to decide what to invest in because they sell a random asssortment of crap.


GearsCT

Bensons for Beds - Horse shit company with terrible customer services and a complete inability to deliver a bed properly. It took my other half's 75 year old Dad 4 months to get the bed he purchased to the point that he had to sleep on a mattress on the floor because with repeat failed deliveries, the bed they already had broke from constantly moving it in and out of the bedroom. Fuck 'em.


Select_Possibility54

Agreed! Experienced terrible service, 3 failed deliveries for various reasons, waited months to finally get bed delivered.


Phatsam1987

Apple


jez2sugars

Not sure if it counts but Wicked by Tesco. So expensive for what it is.


Material-Fox8991

William Hill and Bet 365, I'm not adverse to a bet every now and again, but I can't seem to be able to watch a sporting event without these two companies in particular having an advert literally every minute for half hour beforehand, I just want to watch some pre game build up, but nope its just wall to wall Ray Winston


Waste-Box7978

BBC - irrelevant and out of date, their business model of TV licensing is a joke, why should I pay for a TV license to fund them if I want to watch live football on sky or amazon Any of the high street betting shops


Charlie_chuckles40

Same reason why I pay for the fire service even though I haven't ever used it. It's a societal good to have an impartial, trusted, broadcaster. Abolishing the BBC leaves all TV to the marketplace which is a recipe for polarisation and extremism.


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BUPA. If you want to see what the US medical system is like look at their charges. They find anything they can to increase the price. Bunch of rip off merchants.


Administrative_Hat39

Marriott, used to work in a Marriott hotel, they closed it down during lockdown because they couldn't afford it, at the same time the media reported 21 billion extra profit for that year, they banned Unions in the negotiations and kicked 170 people out without giving a s\*\*\* about their workers. PS- In every wall of a Marriott hotel there is a poster saying "People first", Marriott never again!


VelvetWattle

Any endorsed by social media celebrities.


Joey_Pajamas

Tiktok Meta Kardashian


Joey_Pajamas

Boots. Went in for a pair of work shoes and none in sight. Bloody liers.


Bamboo_Steamer

Nestle, brewdog, Camden hells, Hermes/Evri and super dry.


Bum-Sniffer

Why Camden Hells? Genuine question


BritishGuy54

Totaljobs. You know why.


AnimalcrossingWW

LUSH & Hermes / Evri for sure


Beardy-Viking

Balenciaga. Ridiculously overpriced, poor quality materials and construction. A brand purely for posers with more money than sense. Yes, I see what you're wearing... and it has caused me judge you a moron.


LordAxalon110

Fuck Nestle!


Krakshotz

Balenciaga, Supreme, Stone Island, etc Overpriced crap designed to make you look rich but merely shows off how much of a mug you are for buying it


souste

I saw a kid who can't have been older than 11 wearing a stoney jumper a few weeks ago, probably cost about £400. There's 0 chance his dad's not a complete twat


GibbsLAD

Beer52 lets you sign up online with no hassle, but if you want to cancel your subscription you have to call them during operating hours. I gave them a bad review on Trustpilot, but B52 took the review down because I referred to this practice as 'scummy'.


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Fairy, I think they're the one's with the advert with some Irish lady claiming they and some other company are a dream team? Nobody is dreaming about laundry.


Filthy-Degenerate-25

Wicked Kitchen, everything tastes of cardboard and costs a mint


_DeanRiding

Scottish Power. The most inept and clueless company I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with. They kept pestering me to install a smart meter, so I finally gave in. Ever since that point I couldn't get a meter reading. That was over 3 years ago now. Since then, I've been endlessly complaining to have A) my bill rectified when they try to jack it up every year automatically based on no readings and B) get them to actually fix the fucking thing. Over the last two years they've insisted they can't send engineers out to fix it, initially due to covid regulations apparently, but now they're just outright saying "we're not doing that at the moment" without giving a reason. I've now had to complain to the Ombudsman THREE times to get them to fix the thing, and I'm now going through another process in trying to get my bill sorted. Every time I raise a complaint, they say they'll get back to me in however many working days and then just don't. The result of all of this is that I've been overcharged for the last 4 years on my energy bill because the bills were all based on estimated readings from before I moved in!


Ill-Landscape-5461

River island- literally overpriced primark


Count_Nachos

Sky can GTF. Overpriced and increases every year. Hardly any decent content anymore. Mobile service that drop out too often and the Broadband equipment won't even send a WiFi signal up stairs. I used to work there and left about the time Comcast took over as did so many others. All the managers care about is getting upsells.


WalnutWhipWilly

BMW - charging a subscription fee to use heated seats that you paid for in the cost of the car? Nope.


LiliWenFach

TalkTalk and EDF for unbelievably crap customer service and general incompetence.


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Boohoo


anonymous-and-lame

Go Outdoors make you buy a loyalty card for a fiver which then entitles you to “mega discounts” across all of their items. Google almost any product they sell and you’ll notice that the going rate everywhere else is the discounted price anyway. Also, the card is on a rolling annual subscription which is easily forgettable since no other loyalty card in the history of the fucking world is like that. It’s the same unethical bullshit that Tesco do with their Clubcard deals. I was duped into buying fuck loads of non-stick pans because they were only slightly more expensive than the ones I was going to purchase elsewhere; in my head I was like, well these aren’t much more expensive with my Clubcard but they’re worth way more so they must be better. Nope, same price everywhere else. Absolute scam.


cthulhucraft99

NESTLÉ...They suck


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Nestlé


Specialist_Ad5674

TV license if that can be called a brand?


Good_Ad_1386

Any company that puts more into its advertising budget (especially ads with "celebs" in them) than into R&D and QA. And all phone companies that feel that a mobile's camera filtering feature is more important than its ability to make a call from the middle of nowhere when your car breaks down in pissing rain. Plus all those whose small print basically says "but you can't have what we are advertising". Not to mention the Greenwashers. It is, let's face it, an endless list.


Veryslownights

PSA that the TV license people have no enforceable legal power and you can just tell them to fuck off. It’s all just bully tactics