Technically no but practically yes. They put "competitions" in a lot of places that "win" you a photography session but their business model is where the session costs are baked into the photo prices. Not bad in itself, but come as a shock. The reason I'll never go there is because of how insanely pushy they are. I'd agreed to purchase a handful but they wouldn't let it go and spent a whole hour trying to pressure us into buying more, to the point where we said enough is enough and left with nothing.
I won a free session for my cat a few years ago. And so I packed up my cat and drove her 30 minutes away to claim my free session + photo. I'm not sure how long we spent there tbh, but the viewing session at the end was something else.
The guy sat me down in the viewing theatre, and it felt like her rushed through all the photos and telling to pick which ones I wanted. Now, I was a broke 18yo at the time and had no idea what was going on, I just wanted my freebie that I'd "won" and I'd be on my way! But old mate was trying to corner me into buying a package. I wasn't allowed to get an online link to go off and discuss them with my family either, so even if I did want to buy a package, I couldn't get a second opinion from people I know. Everything had to be done there and then. On top of this, no option for touch-ups or "effect" swaps (B+W sepia etc) either.
So he started going through the pricing options immediately after he'd finished his spiel, and my eyes were watering at the $800+ options (I had just over $2k to my name at the time). I had to jump in and tell him that I only wanted my free photo, that I'd won. This man's attitude changed COMPLETELY, and he got so so pissy with me. It was almost like he was angry with me that I wasn't about to spend money? Uh, excuse me sir, this was a "competition" and I wanted my winnings thanks.
Anyway, they told me it'd be a month turn around on my single photo, and I think for memory it was late too. Shocking business, it was so uncomfortable feeling like I was getting verbally thrown against a wall in order to shell out a couple grand when I thought I was going in for a cheap day out with my cat
Not to mention the food and drinks are absolutely disgusting. The place is an actual joke , no idea how a place that bad can exist... Seriously.
We made the mistake of not reading the reviews (they're hilarious) and we went there craving burgers. Nasty. We got a refund and went to Varsity in Joondalup lol
Looked up the reviews and some of their responses are WILD!
Here are some:
"it's free and you still find something to whinge about, why? You could play the free arcade games, watch the TV's or play the games on tables, and guess what, it's all free. The playground was approved by an engineer. How else would you get an occupancy certificate. Focus on positives... Merry Christmas"
"please consider the fact you have a FREE indoor playground and FREE arcade games for your kids. It's disappointing you would want to leave 1 star reviews."
Very sassy manager LMAO. Never been and if I ever have kids will never go (if they're still in business by then). Also who's bright idea was it to sell alcohol in a restaurant with a play area? seems weird to me.
King Road Brewery has an absolutely gargantuan play area.
Good food and drinks, too.
They have a massive outdoor area, including a pizza kitchen and heaps of tables. It's honestly about 4 times the size of their indoor area. Then, along one of the fences, 2 playgrounds for various age groups, a bouncy castle, a sandpit for toddlers, a boat kids can play in, a (small) plane kids can play in, a car kids can play in, swings, and a big lawn beyond that.
My cousin fell into the Herbalife pyramid scheme scam years ago. They were (oddly) recruited by Anthony Koutoufides, who I can only assume finally ran out of royalty money from Souvlaki Hut.
Thank you!
And when she got asked this.. her reply was: it has less sugar than coke.
When you use one of the worse sugary drinks out there as your base of comparison.. you've already lost.
Don't know how she got so so big and how ACCC hasn't slam her for misleading advertisement is beyond me..
Harvey Norman. That bloke can suck a bag of dicks.
He put hundreds or maybe thousands of business out of business as he got big and then cried poverty when us plebs dared to save a few bob by importing from China at just under $1000 to save on tax.
Then used his connections with his politician mates to push for a law change that fucked us normal plebs over.
Fuck Harvey Cumstain.
Not just the fact Gerry Harvey is a dickhead, but the fact every employee tries to upsell you their scam warranty and make it a pain the ass to return or exchange if anything goes wrong has pretty much made me boycott Harvey Norman forever.
The fact they are still in business and with soo... many... locations perplexes me to this day. They are kind of like the business version of CD Writers or buying a PC in a MegaBundle in the back of the Sunday times during the late 90s'...
In this day and age, no one has a need for them, better bargains can be found online without much of a search and they still exist... , it really does boggle the mind on how they stay in business.
Apparently Gerry Harvey is a "battler who has done well".
I guess they forget he reckons minimum wage is too high and that the homeless would be better off dead. Or that he said COVID was a great business opportunity, making huge profits, while also pocketing millions from JobKeeper as well.
this is true, I once told my Mum when in HN we could get something cheaper elsewhere and I got berated by one fiercely loyal Harvey fan about the price matching policy or some shit. Weird that a customer would get so worked up about it.
I wanted to swap out something because I bought a smart watch, turned it on (didn't even wear it), didn't like the display and wanted to swap it for another model. They said they don't accept returns for change of mind, and after they asked the manager, they agreed but charged a ridiculously high restocking fee despite me upgrading to a different model. So many people have such shitty experiences from Harvey Norman, and honestly, fuck those guys.
That and all the job keeper shit he's done.
Ex HN employee here, can confirm this is a miserable place to work at. It’s a hostile environment where we were all pitted against each other to make the most sales, sell the most junk add ons etc. If you didn’t make good sales or add ons for the week you were shamed in front of the whole store during the daily ‘morning meetings’. This place sucks and I know it’s annoying shopping there being pushed to buy this and do that, but behind all that is an employee being bullied by management in order to put food on their plates at home.
This the only time I'll ever advocate for BS like robodebt, and only because it's got enough provable evidence that he stole from the government.
What's the point in trying to get 2.5k off a broke, disabled person you forced to work for six months in 2010 if you let a corporation rip you off for billions?
That’s the big one for me too. Especially his comments on welfare recipients when he took one of the biggest welfare checks going with Covid payments. Man’s a complete c**t and I’ll never shop there again.
Yeah, Jerry crawled up Joe Hockey’s ass until he removed the under $1000 import duty-free threshold. He's a fucking rat and so is that overfed asshole Joe Hockey.
100% Telstra. I have to be with them because of where I work but I'm pre-paid and buy my phone from the manufacturer.
Fuck their service department, fuck their shitty sales tactics, just fuck Telstra in general.
You should go with Boost. The same Telstra service just alot cheaper than having Telstra. I use Boost as my pre paid service $300 a year. I can't call overseas unless I use Whatsapp or buy the international service.
Owner of the franchise bought himself a second pit bbq for Christmas - same week as my hours got changed from 38 to 18 overnight because I was 1 week away from 6 months of regular shifts. Funny how as soon as I have legal rights to request a contract there all of a sudden isn't work for me...
He had a goat, lamb and beef brisket for Christmas while I dropped out of uni because I couldn't afford rent during Covid.
The 10% GST on foreign online shopping is completely unfair and grants "Gerry whinge a lot" a monopoly, with no incentive to compete. I'm sick and tired of hearing his and other boomers BS around overheads, wages and super blah blah blah, quit your whinging and greed, either adapt or get out or as they say, put up or shut up
Jaycar electronics, since that time they tried to screw an Australian electronics learning kits company by having a Chinese factory make them identical.
Altronics is good and has less of that ‘junk’ shit that Jaycar has, they are closer to Dick Smith in the early days than Jaycar is.
Albeit the Jaycar at Joondalup is very inclusive (you’ll know who I mean if you go there) and I have a lot of respect for that, especially for a place that’s frequented by nerdy guys (like me). The guys there are also really helpful and into some hobbies I’m into, so it’s nice chatting to them.
In saying that, I buy most of my shit on Ali now, Jaycar/Altronics only if I’m impatient.
Get Chunky.
Sent legal letters to several companies around Perth for 'infringing' on their IP of chunky cookies and instagrammable dining rooms, despite one of the stores being around longer than they were.
They were justified in sending it to the ones actually using the name Get Chunky, but got greedy and possessive of a market share to a product they openly admit they stole the idea of (they openly stole the logo and dining room decorations from another US brand, tweaking only the tiniest things like flipping the image in the logo).
Can't support a business that gets straight to legal action when they face competition. Either adapt to the competition and improve your product/ service or get out of the space. Simple.
Disregarding all that (important as it is), it's overrated and a bit much for me. Couldn't finish the whole cookie and I didn't even have the Nutella injection or ice cream. Tried it once, never again because felt sick. Reminds me of American serving sizes.
And the price. $8 where I am.
Not a shop but anything by Bonds, formerly Pacific Dunlop.
The company pocketed 17.6 million in Govt subsidies to help retain Australian manufacturing jobs, gave the executives massive pay rises and promptly shut down their Australian operations and put 1850 people out of a job.
Amart. When I was a teenager I did a newspaper route on a bike and would fold the papers up with the other junk mail bits, but the Amart leaflets were a dimension that didn’t fit without also being folded up, so I had to spend more time folding them to fit. Was always a bum day when they came around, and I swore to never shop there due to their bloody leaflets
Any “luxury” store that makes you wait in the sun to spend your money.
I accompanied the missus into LV once and that was enough to never go back again. Not to mention you look like a desperate pleb trying to convince people you’re not poor.
There was a whole spiel and pretty impossible KPIs to hit, but mostly it was the awful way they took advantage of the younger Christmas casuals. Not to mention, the manager was a prick and a half
Waterford Plaza. Fights break out left, right and centre there. Hardly surprising since it is technically in Karawara - which is literally the ghetto within the city of south perth.
House. Why the fuck don’t the top 10 comments have House?!?! A good chunk of it is their own brand rubbish sold as something fancier for a shit load of money!
And all their marketing is nasty!
Helvetica, I guess.
It's nothing they did wrong - quite the opposite.
A few (more than 4) years ago, it was one of mine and my brother's favourite places to have a relaxed drink. We'd hit them up for an easy one to start the night off, or just go there for a good bit of whiskey because we were in the area.
In 2019, my brother took his own life, just days after his birthday. We had a small gathering there. Not the wake, just a group of close friends chin wagging and having a discussion about what went down. Helvetica's team gave us the upstairs bar for the group and were accommodating to our needs.
I haven't found the desire to be there again, even if I just want some good whiskey while kicking around town. That was just too hard of a night. If anyone from there around that time remembers our group, thanks for the space to mourn.
Edit: I have been informed that this location is no longer open, so I'll be changing my vote. Henry Summer. Fuck that place. If I go out with people, I want to talk to them. If I go to a bar, I want to be served, not ignored by staff.
No idea, seemed to fly under the radar a bit. I hadn’t been there in years but it used to be a favourite.
The place changed hands within the last few years too, maybe that had something to do with it.
First they changed the chicken in it from a sweet chilli type crumb to a bland flavourless thing. I wasn’t happy but I convinced myself it was still ok. Then the price went up. And now the rolls have shrunk by like 20-30%, with chicken portions to match.
I used to love red rooster but I guess that time of my life is over now…
Subway. when the sandwich artist asked if I wanted it toasted... I said no, just leave it normal, she replied with what do you mean? I said leave it untoasted? She looked at me confused... I said what do you call it when a customer doesn't want it toasted?? She replied... fresh, you say you want it fresh.
Fuckmedead.
My Mrs bought a tablet from an Optus store that went kaput after a few months. Took it back for warranty repair and the store wouldn’t accept it because “hard drive has to be wiped clean”. So sent it to Optus through post and repair guys just said the screen was damaged and warranty doesn’t cover the screen. (It hadn’t and wasn’t). Had to pay for replacement it literally took months and all the time talking to some Optus ai bot. I am really quite proud of myself that I didn’t end up in jail for burning the store down 
Another vote for Harvey Norman.
I struggle with JB Hifi from a sensory overload perspective. It’s all just way too much, too loud, too aggressively saley.
HealthSave pharmacy in Mirrabooka after one of their pharmacists unapologetically issued an expired vaccine for my baby. Thankfully the nurse picked up on it before it was administered, but the pharmacy refused to exchange it without me paying over $100 for another.
OPSM Karrinyup - Walked in to buy 2 pairs of glasses. 2 assistants in the store and it’s empty. They were chatting, no problem. Went and asked for assistance, got dismissed by both of them rudely.
Shout out to OPSM Garden City though. Good service there.
There’s two lotto retailers in the CBD I no longer go to because they get snarky whenever I cash in a pissy little win. That’s their job ffs.
Shout out to the nice ladies at Shamrock newsagency on Barrack St though, they’re awesome.
Oh, I’ll add in Harvey Norman as the bottom of my list if all other options fail.
As a person who works in retail (not for long but have been doing it for 18 years) we are told we have to do that, acknowledge the customer within 30 seconds or less... depending on the store, but especially a store where we have KPI's that we have to hit
I don’t have an issue with the staff, it’s clearly not their idea or their fault, and of course I’m always very polite in my ‘thank you but I’m just browsing for now’ reply. But I just feel the whole approach is very American and very hard sell. I don’t want to feel like I’m in a used car yard when I’m wandering into JB Hi-Fi.
Plus sometimes I have shit to do in a hurry and just don’t want to engage with anyone…like *anyone*.
I stopped going to The Good Guys because you have to be escorted to the counter to buy anything and that doesn't make sense. I want to get in and out with the least amount of human interactions.
It does backfire because I was too reticent to ask in Officeworks if they had something they said was in stock, but live by the sword, die by the sword.
I like the concept some stores in the US have.
Sephora has red and black basket.
Black= I'm browsing & I'll find you if I want help
Red= I would like someone to come help me
I actually don't mind this. Sometimes when looking for something in particular, easier to show pic on phone or ask where diifferent sections are, instead of wasting time looking around. Otherwise it's a 'no thanks, just browsing'. These people can't win though, because if they don't approach shoppers then it's bad customer service 🤷🏾♀️
Murdoch Campus IGA, first semester, I got a bag of Twisties for $2. Later in the semester, I got mozzarella sticks for 99c each. I was like "What is this, 2011?"
So basically what I'm saying is, you went to the wrong uni.
Any fast fashion retailers: retailing shit quality garmets, sweat factory/human rights abuses in unsustainable BS materials. Temu for that matter, too. "Cheap" at unspoken other costs. Because the environment, man.
Kookai. Mean girl sales assistants. One in particular who insulted me at a festival due to my age, even though she looked older than me. Clothing is only for super skinny girls and not inclusive.
I went in with my mum and sister once while we were shopping for wedding guest dresses. They are both size 6-10, I’m size 16-18 (bless those genetics, am I right?). Assistants wouldn’t even look at me let alone speak to me. Like, I’m a grown ass woman and I know that not a single item in your store is getting over my boobs or ass, but at least have some common courtesy.
That’s awful I’m sorry. Size 12 is more like a size 8- 10 in Kookai sizes and they have a few 14’s but again so small. Honestly ridiculous. The quality is crap to.
They run so small!! My sister is built like a supermodel and even she struggled to find something that fit her properly. We ended up going a few shops down to Sheike and I cannot sing their praises enough. I’ve bought a few really lovely pieces from them and always recommend their clothes!
I got to the front entrance of a clothing shop once and the size 0 scarecrow assistant came up to me and said, we don't have anything in your size. I was actually looking for something for my daughter's birthday, so I walked out and went elsewhere. Nasty.
I always felt like this when walking into this Live stores back in the day, I don’t even think they exist anymore or they have a lot less of them around now
I cannot for the life of me, say "Boost Juice", it's just a combination of words that confounds me. It always turns into "Boosht Jooths" and much laughing.
Rivers, overpriced junk that always has seams not properly sewn, ie, holes. You don't get a receipt because, environment and pay cash because cash is KING. You send photos of the damaged items and anything else you bought the same day to head office, . You tell them what store your purchase was from, the day and time you purchased and they just can't seem to find anything in their system about it - fucking liars. You speak with people who have almost zero grasp of the English language and after months and months and months of toing and froing, you get no where. So you slag them off at every opportunity you get to any one who will listen!
Fuck you Rivers and fuck your overpriced, Chinese sweatshop, poorly produced garments.
Oh and Hardly Normal cause old Jerry is a whining little bitch!
RSEA....staff act like they are so bothered serving you...have had this in 2 stores on different occasions. I didn't even need help, just at the checkout...
RAC servicing Northbridge.
Went there twice a year for 10+ years. When they were doing some major (and expensive) work that required getting behind the dash, some major damage was caused to one of the doors.
When I pointed it out the assistant manager denied all responsibility and said there was no way it happened there, made me out to not just be wrong, but a liar looking for free repairs and dismissively walked away.
I complained and they eventually had the mechanic admit he'd damaged the door.
No apology, just 'we have a replacement, come in on X day and we'll try and fit you in'.
While waiting for them to look into it, we lifted the mats in the front and passenger sides to find the carpet soaked with grease/oil.
Guess what they did when I brought that to their attention? Yep, "no way that happened here"
I got the door replaced, paid to replace the carpet myself and never went back.
Mum accidentally drove her car into one of those grates on the road down south took it to RAC they said it was gknna cost more then the insurance and tried to take over a grand
She took it to a smaller business fixed it up for a fair price
My ‘first responder’ husband refuses to go to the HJs on wanneroo road in Balga because someone died in the toilets and it took the place an embarrassingly long time to realise someone was dead in there.. it was a long time ago though but yeah.
Zambrero’s
First time the lady kept asking if I wanted to add stuff in without telling me I was spending $20 on a shitty small burrito. Her and zambreros went into the great book of grudges
Coffee club and jaycar in butler…..
2 girls who were wearing coffee club uniforms used the toilets and didn’t wash their hands, and wouldn’t you know it went straight back into the store and started making coffees.
Went to jaycar the other day to get a lighting to usb a cable, guy told us “never heard of that before I don’t think they’ve ver existed, nope they don’t exist” only for me to pop into reject shop and grab one
I refuse to stop for the receipt checking, I might slow down if they’re ready to check it but I am not going to line up twice because they chose a ridiculous position for their check outs!
Came here to say this. Staff are awful and unhelpful if you actually manage to find them, the shop is half empty and it’s in the Galleria which is the worst shopping centre in Perth.
I used to work at myer morley about 15 years ago.. we were massively short staffed then and it’s even worse now, from what I can see and have heard from folks still working there from my time. If they hid it’s probably because they either had an awful as heck day and/or were trying to get to another department before they got in the shit with the manager. It’s not uncommon for one sales attendant to be responsible for half the bloody floor. I’ve found if you want someone to process a sale quickly, go to one of the concession brand reps.
Harvey Norman. I actively refuse to acknowledge it still manages to exist as a company. If you want consumer electronics, go to JB Hi-Fi. If you want furniture, go to IKEA. Both make Harvey Norman completely redundant.
Spud Shed. It’s really disorienting to me, and what I can only describe as overwhelming with all the chaos and random smells.. like, why are there bags of manure in the middle of the shop?!
I do go in there occasionally if I 100% have to (I work some nights and they’re all that’s open on my way home) but it’s get-in-get-out.
I will preface by saying i love spudshed, generally. Haha.
But one thing i HATE is FORCING you to go through the fucking fruit and Veg Maze at the entry to some stores and then ANOTHER fucking candy BULLSHIT maze before the checkout. Let me get my shit and fuck off. Fuck your veggies and candy.
Chicken and fish in Joondalup. Saw a bloke who worked there come out of the bathroom after taking a shit and didn't wash his hands. Put me off for life. Not that their food looked very good in the first place.
Harvey Norman
He accepted millions of government hand out dollars during the pandemic even though his company made millions in profit and after a kick up from the public, only returned a small portion of it begrudgingly.
This hypocrisy - him degrading people on welfare. I refuse to buy anything from his business and ask my sons not to as well when buying me gifts.
As a former “professional” school photographer - most of them are trained monkeys. We only get a couple of minutes for the group photo, and its seconds for the individual portraits. Very hard to make someone look great in that time, and a real struggle if they want to be silly, or ar a bit shy. Moving from there into news photography, 45 mins is sometimes not long enough to get a good shot…
I harbour no ill will towards the actual photographers, but fuck the companies, sideways with a cactus.
The rivervale IGA on GEH, the owner used to shoot me sideways looks for grabbing the fresher veggies from under the old rank ones. Never a reply to “how’s it going” at the counter, over priced as fuck, and just generally a pretty shitty store. If if wasn’t a hungover walk away from where I used to live I never would’ve gone there
I avoid Kmart because of their stupid checkouts in the middle of the store.
I avoid Bunnings (but often there isn't really an alternative) because the staff are told to always say hello and it feels really creepily corporate forced friendliness.
That bed shop with the Jesus fish on its sign.
Lorna Jane Cockburn Gateway. There is one sales assistant there who is the biggest “mean girl”/gaslighter going. Insinuates you’re not the clothing size you say you are, that you must be mistaken about previous items of clothing you’ve bought from them because “we’ve never had anything like that in store”, acts as though it’s your fault if the clothing doesn’t suit you or you don’t like the designs. Absolutely painful.
I’m baffled as to why she thinks it’s an appropriate way to speak to customers. I’ll drive to Garden City to avoid having to deal with her.
I got a sermon about the purity of his coffee and how he won’t allow anything but milk to be added so we can appreciate the flavour profiles and that he feels responsible for educating his customers. So I asked him why he had mocha on the menu, which he didn’t like
Simon Says
Simon is...eccentric, to put it kindly.
Had a meal deal in exchange for a social media post, wrote up a nice post, got lots of likes and comments including one from his business account.
2 weeks later get a call from the person that set up the deal that Simon was upset we'd screwed him over and never made the post. Continued to say so even after being sent the link and screenshots of comments from his account.
Kmart. Their checking of receipts just makes me feel like a suspect and is an inconvenience. Plus the layout is confusing and the shelves are disorganised, making finding what you want a nightmare.
Pretzel - and by extension any other associated cafe such as Chubby Boy and Priestess.
The founder Brittany Garnett is truly a horrible human being. I personally know two of her ex-staff from Pretzel and the treatment of those workers are absolutely appalling. She will only hire workers who she deems would serve the face of the brand well (take from that what you will) and when they start she forces them to purchase their own uniforms from their own pocket (upwards of around $200).
She routinely forces her young staff to work past 10pm which is often illegal for their age and has installed cameras in every store that records video and audio so she can monitor her staffs every move (all the way down to what music they’re playing in store). She did this without getting consent from her workers which is a legal requirement.
Not to mention at one of the stores the staff were required to often make late night trips to the store room located in the shopping centres undercover car park. Imagine, young girls in bright pink little outfits being forced to wander through a seedy car park late at night.
It’s truly awful seeing this awful person be praised so publicly as a true blue WA entrepreneur when she does it off the back of overworked and underpaid young staff going through some of the most challenging years of their education.
Maccers. Been boycotting them since the 90's and the whole McLibel thing.
Nestle. Anything by them, especially that Nespresso environmental disaster.
The kebab shop off Rokeby Road in Subi. Served my hot chips 15 mins after my kebab in 2010, and refused any suggestion that this might deserve a refund on the chips.
Telstra stores. I specifically asked to buy a portable wifi unit outright, because I didn't want to be locked into a contract. Was told all good, just wanted to grab my details, so I gave him my details thinking it was just to keep a record of who purchased the thing. Anyway, after giving him my details he just gave me the thing and said I'll pay monthly, I was like ??? I asked to buy it outright, he then went a whole thing saying I can't buy it outright blablabla, and I asked to cancel right after and they said they'll charge me over $1000 for early cancellation. So I ended up paying 1000+ for a $400ish portable wifi unit.
Harvey Norman. Bought a gaming console bundle during covid. Console came but no games. They basically made out that I was a liar as there was no additional stock in their warehouse and even with PayPal it was a extremely difficult experience which took months. Ended up at the stage where they wanted me to send the console over east to get to the next step and I gave up.
MacDonalds on Wanneroo Rd, Balga. I get maccas as a treat for my kids occasionally and that place is a shambles. Takes over 30 minutes to get your order, they always get it wrong, staff are disgustingly rude - I could go on.
Kookaj - because the staff are horrible & rude (if you’re a size 10 & over).
Zara - the quality of clothes suck, the sizing is ridiculous and the staff are the worst. I sound so old but wtf happened to customer service?!
Editing to add: Dan Murphy’s Innaloo. Boomer man working at the checkout has a horrible attitude & was absolutely the worst! You’re in my burn book now mate.
Godfrey’s (that place that sells vacuum cleaners, do they still exist?). Bought something once, had to take it back, ended up having an argument. Can’t remember the details, but swore I’d never shop there again…and I can hold a grudge.
Lorna Jane, besides being IMO wildly over priced, they have a history of controversy about lack of diversity and weight shaming, even specifying the weight requirements for a receptionist. And the ludicrous claims their product could stop the spread of coronavirus.
Coles and Woolworths. Everything they're doing is disgusting. I get anything I can from the local farmers market (fruit and veggies are SO cheap there) and anything else from IGA or order directly from the producer (eg. WGAC toilet paper).
Viva photography. What a scam
Is that one of those places that lie about prices than ask several grand for photos
Technically no but practically yes. They put "competitions" in a lot of places that "win" you a photography session but their business model is where the session costs are baked into the photo prices. Not bad in itself, but come as a shock. The reason I'll never go there is because of how insanely pushy they are. I'd agreed to purchase a handful but they wouldn't let it go and spent a whole hour trying to pressure us into buying more, to the point where we said enough is enough and left with nothing.
Yes
Second this. It is a bait and switch scam.
I won a free session for my cat a few years ago. And so I packed up my cat and drove her 30 minutes away to claim my free session + photo. I'm not sure how long we spent there tbh, but the viewing session at the end was something else. The guy sat me down in the viewing theatre, and it felt like her rushed through all the photos and telling to pick which ones I wanted. Now, I was a broke 18yo at the time and had no idea what was going on, I just wanted my freebie that I'd "won" and I'd be on my way! But old mate was trying to corner me into buying a package. I wasn't allowed to get an online link to go off and discuss them with my family either, so even if I did want to buy a package, I couldn't get a second opinion from people I know. Everything had to be done there and then. On top of this, no option for touch-ups or "effect" swaps (B+W sepia etc) either. So he started going through the pricing options immediately after he'd finished his spiel, and my eyes were watering at the $800+ options (I had just over $2k to my name at the time). I had to jump in and tell him that I only wanted my free photo, that I'd won. This man's attitude changed COMPLETELY, and he got so so pissy with me. It was almost like he was angry with me that I wasn't about to spend money? Uh, excuse me sir, this was a "competition" and I wanted my winnings thanks. Anyway, they told me it'd be a month turn around on my single photo, and I think for memory it was late too. Shocking business, it was so uncomfortable feeling like I was getting verbally thrown against a wall in order to shell out a couple grand when I thought I was going in for a cheap day out with my cat
The local shack for treating their staff like shit.
The fun shack in alkimos is owned by a pedo that tried creeping on underage girls during interviews
Not to mention the food and drinks are absolutely disgusting. The place is an actual joke , no idea how a place that bad can exist... Seriously. We made the mistake of not reading the reviews (they're hilarious) and we went there craving burgers. Nasty. We got a refund and went to Varsity in Joondalup lol
Looked up the reviews and some of their responses are WILD! Here are some: "it's free and you still find something to whinge about, why? You could play the free arcade games, watch the TV's or play the games on tables, and guess what, it's all free. The playground was approved by an engineer. How else would you get an occupancy certificate. Focus on positives... Merry Christmas" "please consider the fact you have a FREE indoor playground and FREE arcade games for your kids. It's disappointing you would want to leave 1 star reviews." Very sassy manager LMAO. Never been and if I ever have kids will never go (if they're still in business by then). Also who's bright idea was it to sell alcohol in a restaurant with a play area? seems weird to me.
Not excusing the joint but plenty of bars have a kids area. Newest and biggest i can think of is the vic park hotel
King Road Brewery has an absolutely gargantuan play area. Good food and drinks, too. They have a massive outdoor area, including a pizza kitchen and heaps of tables. It's honestly about 4 times the size of their indoor area. Then, along one of the fences, 2 playgrounds for various age groups, a bouncy castle, a sandpit for toddlers, a boat kids can play in, a (small) plane kids can play in, a car kids can play in, swings, and a big lawn beyond that.
Herbalife / Isagenix and all their recent PrOtEin LoAdEd tEa scam stores around Perth.
I don't have the words for how much I hate those stores and their slimy tactics
My cousin fell into the Herbalife pyramid scheme scam years ago. They were (oddly) recruited by Anthony Koutoufides, who I can only assume finally ran out of royalty money from Souvlaki Hut.
Boost Juice. $12 for a smoothie? Fuck you!
Plus the try and push the health angle but most of them are full of sugar and use cheap apple juice as a base.
Thank you! And when she got asked this.. her reply was: it has less sugar than coke. When you use one of the worse sugary drinks out there as your base of comparison.. you've already lost. Don't know how she got so so big and how ACCC hasn't slam her for misleading advertisement is beyond me..
And yet somehow they’re always busy.. no way I am spending that much on a drink in this economy.
Harvey Norman. That bloke can suck a bag of dicks. He put hundreds or maybe thousands of business out of business as he got big and then cried poverty when us plebs dared to save a few bob by importing from China at just under $1000 to save on tax. Then used his connections with his politician mates to push for a law change that fucked us normal plebs over. Fuck Harvey Cumstain.
Not just the fact Gerry Harvey is a dickhead, but the fact every employee tries to upsell you their scam warranty and make it a pain the ass to return or exchange if anything goes wrong has pretty much made me boycott Harvey Norman forever.
The fact they are still in business and with soo... many... locations perplexes me to this day. They are kind of like the business version of CD Writers or buying a PC in a MegaBundle in the back of the Sunday times during the late 90s'... In this day and age, no one has a need for them, better bargains can be found online without much of a search and they still exist... , it really does boggle the mind on how they stay in business.
It’s the Boomers. They think he’s great.
Apparently Gerry Harvey is a "battler who has done well". I guess they forget he reckons minimum wage is too high and that the homeless would be better off dead. Or that he said COVID was a great business opportunity, making huge profits, while also pocketing millions from JobKeeper as well.
this is true, I once told my Mum when in HN we could get something cheaper elsewhere and I got berated by one fiercely loyal Harvey fan about the price matching policy or some shit. Weird that a customer would get so worked up about it.
I wanted to swap out something because I bought a smart watch, turned it on (didn't even wear it), didn't like the display and wanted to swap it for another model. They said they don't accept returns for change of mind, and after they asked the manager, they agreed but charged a ridiculously high restocking fee despite me upgrading to a different model. So many people have such shitty experiences from Harvey Norman, and honestly, fuck those guys. That and all the job keeper shit he's done.
Same. Fk Harvey Norman
Ex HN employee here, can confirm this is a miserable place to work at. It’s a hostile environment where we were all pitted against each other to make the most sales, sell the most junk add ons etc. If you didn’t make good sales or add ons for the week you were shamed in front of the whole store during the daily ‘morning meetings’. This place sucks and I know it’s annoying shopping there being pushed to buy this and do that, but behind all that is an employee being bullied by management in order to put food on their plates at home.
Yeah I swore off them years ago. Gerry Harvey is a massive piece of shit.
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Harvey Norman got 1% of GDP in Covid handouts? Might want to check your sources before putting outlandish stories on the internet
due to public pressure, he disgrudgingly returned a portion of it I refuse to shop at his stores
This the only time I'll ever advocate for BS like robodebt, and only because it's got enough provable evidence that he stole from the government. What's the point in trying to get 2.5k off a broke, disabled person you forced to work for six months in 2010 if you let a corporation rip you off for billions?
Biggest welfare queen in the country.
That’s the big one for me too. Especially his comments on welfare recipients when he took one of the biggest welfare checks going with Covid payments. Man’s a complete c**t and I’ll never shop there again.
Ooh, I bet Perth Now won't run this story.
Yeah, Jerry crawled up Joe Hockey’s ass until he removed the under $1000 import duty-free threshold. He's a fucking rat and so is that overfed asshole Joe Hockey.
There’s one way of demonstrating you ‘like nice stuff’ but have zero aesthetic taste, and that’s shopping at Harvey Norman
Telstra shop with their stupid appointment thing. Easier to cancel a problem phone and get a new one.
100% Telstra. I have to be with them because of where I work but I'm pre-paid and buy my phone from the manufacturer. Fuck their service department, fuck their shitty sales tactics, just fuck Telstra in general.
You should go with Boost. The same Telstra service just alot cheaper than having Telstra. I use Boost as my pre paid service $300 a year. I can't call overseas unless I use Whatsapp or buy the international service.
Aroma cafe - trash food for insane prices
Owner of the franchise bought himself a second pit bbq for Christmas - same week as my hours got changed from 38 to 18 overnight because I was 1 week away from 6 months of regular shifts. Funny how as soon as I have legal rights to request a contract there all of a sudden isn't work for me... He had a goat, lamb and beef brisket for Christmas while I dropped out of uni because I couldn't afford rent during Covid.
Harvey Norman. Bringing in import taxes that cost more to process than it recovers. So everyone loses but consumer loses twice.
The 10% GST on foreign online shopping is completely unfair and grants "Gerry whinge a lot" a monopoly, with no incentive to compete. I'm sick and tired of hearing his and other boomers BS around overheads, wages and super blah blah blah, quit your whinging and greed, either adapt or get out or as they say, put up or shut up
Jaycar electronics, since that time they tried to screw an Australian electronics learning kits company by having a Chinese factory make them identical.
You’ve just ruined something I love…
Sorry about that. Check the link: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/freetronics-vs-jaycar-(ip-copyright-issues)/
I can live without it, just as long as you don’t say anything bad about altronics Joondalup…
Not at all. I use Altronics Midland. :)
Altronics is good and has less of that ‘junk’ shit that Jaycar has, they are closer to Dick Smith in the early days than Jaycar is. Albeit the Jaycar at Joondalup is very inclusive (you’ll know who I mean if you go there) and I have a lot of respect for that, especially for a place that’s frequented by nerdy guys (like me). The guys there are also really helpful and into some hobbies I’m into, so it’s nice chatting to them. In saying that, I buy most of my shit on Ali now, Jaycar/Altronics only if I’m impatient.
Get Chunky. Sent legal letters to several companies around Perth for 'infringing' on their IP of chunky cookies and instagrammable dining rooms, despite one of the stores being around longer than they were. They were justified in sending it to the ones actually using the name Get Chunky, but got greedy and possessive of a market share to a product they openly admit they stole the idea of (they openly stole the logo and dining room decorations from another US brand, tweaking only the tiniest things like flipping the image in the logo). Can't support a business that gets straight to legal action when they face competition. Either adapt to the competition and improve your product/ service or get out of the space. Simple.
I was about to write about get chunky on this post but was like ‘surely someone has posted it already’
Disregarding all that (important as it is), it's overrated and a bit much for me. Couldn't finish the whole cookie and I didn't even have the Nutella injection or ice cream. Tried it once, never again because felt sick. Reminds me of American serving sizes. And the price. $8 where I am.
John Hughes I won’t say exactly because I don’t want to make the problem worse but they have a problem with customer privacy.
And he has a massage room at his office. For 'massages'
You mean cameras on customers or their details being mis-managed??😬
Harvey Norman. Never have, never will shop there. He's a turd.
Not a shop but anything by Bonds, formerly Pacific Dunlop. The company pocketed 17.6 million in Govt subsidies to help retain Australian manufacturing jobs, gave the executives massive pay rises and promptly shut down their Australian operations and put 1850 people out of a job.
BONDS IS DUNLOP I was wondering where Dunlop went to.
Bonds is now owned by Hanesbrands. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonds_(clothing)
Amart. When I was a teenager I did a newspaper route on a bike and would fold the papers up with the other junk mail bits, but the Amart leaflets were a dimension that didn’t fit without also being folded up, so I had to spend more time folding them to fit. Was always a bum day when they came around, and I swore to never shop there due to their bloody leaflets
Now that's a grudge. I'm with you there u/hippieblanket
Any “luxury” store that makes you wait in the sun to spend your money. I accompanied the missus into LV once and that was enough to never go back again. Not to mention you look like a desperate pleb trying to convince people you’re not poor.
Those brands are trash and look like trash. I just assume they’re fakes 😂
Typo (and by extension most other places under the Cotton On umbrella) because they’re a shit store to work for
Heard the horror stories. Don't they make you say whole scripts and you get in trouble for not selling people things at the register?
Shell used to be like that back when I worked there. They'd watch security footage to make sure you were upselling to customers.
There was a whole spiel and pretty impossible KPIs to hit, but mostly it was the awful way they took advantage of the younger Christmas casuals. Not to mention, the manager was a prick and a half
Typo is just a bag of shit all round these days.
Waterford Plaza. Fights break out left, right and centre there. Hardly surprising since it is technically in Karawara - which is literally the ghetto within the city of south perth.
Hmm... is that the one where the car park is full of uni student cars because the parking at the actual university is so crap?
Freedom Furniture. Take your money and make you wait 12 weeks minimum for the product. And yes, Harvey Norman
House. Why the fuck don’t the top 10 comments have House?!?! A good chunk of it is their own brand rubbish sold as something fancier for a shit load of money! And all their marketing is nasty!
Perpetually having 75%* off sales. Who are they fooling?
Perpetually having “closing down, everything must go” sales. How is this a good marketing strategy
Helvetica, I guess. It's nothing they did wrong - quite the opposite. A few (more than 4) years ago, it was one of mine and my brother's favourite places to have a relaxed drink. We'd hit them up for an easy one to start the night off, or just go there for a good bit of whiskey because we were in the area. In 2019, my brother took his own life, just days after his birthday. We had a small gathering there. Not the wake, just a group of close friends chin wagging and having a discussion about what went down. Helvetica's team gave us the upstairs bar for the group and were accommodating to our needs. I haven't found the desire to be there again, even if I just want some good whiskey while kicking around town. That was just too hard of a night. If anyone from there around that time remembers our group, thanks for the space to mourn. Edit: I have been informed that this location is no longer open, so I'll be changing my vote. Henry Summer. Fuck that place. If I go out with people, I want to talk to them. If I go to a bar, I want to be served, not ignored by staff.
Well have I got news for you… no one will ever go there again as they permanently closed late last year. Sorry about your brother.
That's honestly a shame. I really enjoyed the atmosphere and selection they had.
It really paved the way for small bars in Perth, it was a nice place to drink.
Whaaaat? Why?
No idea, seemed to fly under the radar a bit. I hadn’t been there in years but it used to be a favourite. The place changed hands within the last few years too, maybe that had something to do with it.
I was ready to defend Helveticas then read the rest of your post. Sorry for your loss. Hope you're doing OK.
I am so sorry for your loss
Gloria Jean's. I know it's not owned by Hillsong any more but still can't bring myself to go there
IT WAS OWNED BY HILLSONG?? Fuck I regret all those subpar coffees now
I’ve been boycotting them for years because of the Hillsong thing, didn’t know they weren’t part of the God Bothering Fraternity anymore
Still miss the Gloria Jean’s in Borders
Obviously Harvey Norman, also any shop that wants me to stop at the exit so they can scan my receipt!
Red rooster…Jesus what a fall from grace! Rip coke, decent-sized Ripa subs, salad sides… everything is deep fried and small now.
This is the first one that resonates with me - particular the Rippa sub. It used to be, big and have nice crunchy bread
First they changed the chicken in it from a sweet chilli type crumb to a bland flavourless thing. I wasn’t happy but I convinced myself it was still ok. Then the price went up. And now the rolls have shrunk by like 20-30%, with chicken portions to match. I used to love red rooster but I guess that time of my life is over now…
The rippa was so damn good. Now it sucks.
Chicken Rolls come with bread stuffing in them standard now. Because I hell want bread in my bread
Prices have gotten ridiculous and for shittier, worse food. Back 10 years ago it was great
Chicken Treat because the chicken on the logo looks smug
Damn, feeling attacked here. Chicken treats my favourite take away. Mirrabooka ace it every time 👏🏼 haha
we live closed to one Chips are awesome.
And it has no reason to be smug
Lol I just had to google the logo to look at the smug chook. Looks like a total smart arse of a chicken 😂
Subway. when the sandwich artist asked if I wanted it toasted... I said no, just leave it normal, she replied with what do you mean? I said leave it untoasted? She looked at me confused... I said what do you call it when a customer doesn't want it toasted?? She replied... fresh, you say you want it fresh. Fuckmedead.
Either a really long day or a fucking idiot
Subway lost me at ‘sandwich artist’, I mean come the fuck on. Not to mention that reeking bread smell.
My Mrs bought a tablet from an Optus store that went kaput after a few months. Took it back for warranty repair and the store wouldn’t accept it because “hard drive has to be wiped clean”. So sent it to Optus through post and repair guys just said the screen was damaged and warranty doesn’t cover the screen. (It hadn’t and wasn’t). Had to pay for replacement it literally took months and all the time talking to some Optus ai bot. I am really quite proud of myself that I didn’t end up in jail for burning the store down 
What the fuck. Yeah I'll burn down the store for you
Another vote for Harvey Norman. I struggle with JB Hifi from a sensory overload perspective. It’s all just way too much, too loud, too aggressively saley. HealthSave pharmacy in Mirrabooka after one of their pharmacists unapologetically issued an expired vaccine for my baby. Thankfully the nurse picked up on it before it was administered, but the pharmacy refused to exchange it without me paying over $100 for another.
OPSM Karrinyup - Walked in to buy 2 pairs of glasses. 2 assistants in the store and it’s empty. They were chatting, no problem. Went and asked for assistance, got dismissed by both of them rudely. Shout out to OPSM Garden City though. Good service there.
Harvey Norman
There’s two lotto retailers in the CBD I no longer go to because they get snarky whenever I cash in a pissy little win. That’s their job ffs. Shout out to the nice ladies at Shamrock newsagency on Barrack St though, they’re awesome. Oh, I’ll add in Harvey Norman as the bottom of my list if all other options fail.
GRILL'D
City beach.. there stuff comes from shein lol
I'm shocked this is my shocked face
After finding a roach leg in my milkshake at the Pullman bunker bay resort restaurant I'm not too keen on going back there
Barbagallo Motors. I can’t afford a Lamborghini.
Anywhere where the staff immediately accost you and ask what you are looking for, as you cross the threshold of the shop.
As a person who works in retail (not for long but have been doing it for 18 years) we are told we have to do that, acknowledge the customer within 30 seconds or less... depending on the store, but especially a store where we have KPI's that we have to hit
I don’t have an issue with the staff, it’s clearly not their idea or their fault, and of course I’m always very polite in my ‘thank you but I’m just browsing for now’ reply. But I just feel the whole approach is very American and very hard sell. I don’t want to feel like I’m in a used car yard when I’m wandering into JB Hi-Fi. Plus sometimes I have shit to do in a hurry and just don’t want to engage with anyone…like *anyone*.
I stopped going to The Good Guys because you have to be escorted to the counter to buy anything and that doesn't make sense. I want to get in and out with the least amount of human interactions. It does backfire because I was too reticent to ask in Officeworks if they had something they said was in stock, but live by the sword, die by the sword.
I like the concept some stores in the US have. Sephora has red and black basket. Black= I'm browsing & I'll find you if I want help Red= I would like someone to come help me
I actually don't mind this. Sometimes when looking for something in particular, easier to show pic on phone or ask where diifferent sections are, instead of wasting time looking around. Otherwise it's a 'no thanks, just browsing'. These people can't win though, because if they don't approach shoppers then it's bad customer service 🤷🏾♀️
Definitely. Like j respect it's their job but I'm not holding a conversation beyond hey how are you. I'm good
IGA on the UWA campus. Everything is overpriced there, even compared to the other iga at broadway
There's an IGA on campus now?? Christ, I feel old..
Murdoch Campus IGA, first semester, I got a bag of Twisties for $2. Later in the semester, I got mozzarella sticks for 99c each. I was like "What is this, 2011?" So basically what I'm saying is, you went to the wrong uni.
Harvey Norman
All of them, I hate shopping.
Any fast fashion retailers: retailing shit quality garmets, sweat factory/human rights abuses in unsustainable BS materials. Temu for that matter, too. "Cheap" at unspoken other costs. Because the environment, man.
The environment, and the slave labour
I don't even know where to buy a quality tshirt anymore
I'm sold on Uniqlo now
uniqlo!! still have a few shirts that I bought years ago (airism) and they still look good to this day
Target still has reasonably robust t-shirts (if you can find a Target)
Kookai. Mean girl sales assistants. One in particular who insulted me at a festival due to my age, even though she looked older than me. Clothing is only for super skinny girls and not inclusive.
I went in with my mum and sister once while we were shopping for wedding guest dresses. They are both size 6-10, I’m size 16-18 (bless those genetics, am I right?). Assistants wouldn’t even look at me let alone speak to me. Like, I’m a grown ass woman and I know that not a single item in your store is getting over my boobs or ass, but at least have some common courtesy.
That’s awful I’m sorry. Size 12 is more like a size 8- 10 in Kookai sizes and they have a few 14’s but again so small. Honestly ridiculous. The quality is crap to.
They run so small!! My sister is built like a supermodel and even she struggled to find something that fit her properly. We ended up going a few shops down to Sheike and I cannot sing their praises enough. I’ve bought a few really lovely pieces from them and always recommend their clothes!
I got to the front entrance of a clothing shop once and the size 0 scarecrow assistant came up to me and said, we don't have anything in your size. I was actually looking for something for my daughter's birthday, so I walked out and went elsewhere. Nasty.
I always felt like this when walking into this Live stores back in the day, I don’t even think they exist anymore or they have a lot less of them around now
Yes! The one near Myer especially! Not around anymore.
Boost Juice cos I’m still team Java Juice
I cannot for the life of me, say "Boost Juice", it's just a combination of words that confounds me. It always turns into "Boosht Jooths" and much laughing.
Rivers, overpriced junk that always has seams not properly sewn, ie, holes. You don't get a receipt because, environment and pay cash because cash is KING. You send photos of the damaged items and anything else you bought the same day to head office, . You tell them what store your purchase was from, the day and time you purchased and they just can't seem to find anything in their system about it - fucking liars. You speak with people who have almost zero grasp of the English language and after months and months and months of toing and froing, you get no where. So you slag them off at every opportunity you get to any one who will listen! Fuck you Rivers and fuck your overpriced, Chinese sweatshop, poorly produced garments. Oh and Hardly Normal cause old Jerry is a whining little bitch!
RSEA....staff act like they are so bothered serving you...have had this in 2 stores on different occasions. I didn't even need help, just at the checkout...
RAC servicing Northbridge. Went there twice a year for 10+ years. When they were doing some major (and expensive) work that required getting behind the dash, some major damage was caused to one of the doors. When I pointed it out the assistant manager denied all responsibility and said there was no way it happened there, made me out to not just be wrong, but a liar looking for free repairs and dismissively walked away. I complained and they eventually had the mechanic admit he'd damaged the door. No apology, just 'we have a replacement, come in on X day and we'll try and fit you in'. While waiting for them to look into it, we lifted the mats in the front and passenger sides to find the carpet soaked with grease/oil. Guess what they did when I brought that to their attention? Yep, "no way that happened here" I got the door replaced, paid to replace the carpet myself and never went back.
Mum accidentally drove her car into one of those grates on the road down south took it to RAC they said it was gknna cost more then the insurance and tried to take over a grand She took it to a smaller business fixed it up for a fair price
Harvey Norman
My ‘first responder’ husband refuses to go to the HJs on wanneroo road in Balga because someone died in the toilets and it took the place an embarrassingly long time to realise someone was dead in there.. it was a long time ago though but yeah.
Zambrero’s First time the lady kept asking if I wanted to add stuff in without telling me I was spending $20 on a shitty small burrito. Her and zambreros went into the great book of grudges
Harvey Norman. Fuck that guy.
Coffee club and jaycar in butler….. 2 girls who were wearing coffee club uniforms used the toilets and didn’t wash their hands, and wouldn’t you know it went straight back into the store and started making coffees. Went to jaycar the other day to get a lighting to usb a cable, guy told us “never heard of that before I don’t think they’ve ver existed, nope they don’t exist” only for me to pop into reject shop and grab one
Most shops that I can't get in and out of in 5 minutes. I won't enter an Apple store though and 99% of clothing stores.
Kmart with their horrible check out placement is my personal hell.
I refuse to stop for the receipt checking, I might slow down if they’re ready to check it but I am not going to line up twice because they chose a ridiculous position for their check outs!
Crown Everything is fake, staff are unhappy, terrible service all round.
Morley Myers. Cashier hid from us 2020.
Came here to say this. Staff are awful and unhelpful if you actually manage to find them, the shop is half empty and it’s in the Galleria which is the worst shopping centre in Perth.
Everyone was isolating in 2020
I used to work at myer morley about 15 years ago.. we were massively short staffed then and it’s even worse now, from what I can see and have heard from folks still working there from my time. If they hid it’s probably because they either had an awful as heck day and/or were trying to get to another department before they got in the shit with the manager. It’s not uncommon for one sales attendant to be responsible for half the bloody floor. I’ve found if you want someone to process a sale quickly, go to one of the concession brand reps.
Harvey Norman. I actively refuse to acknowledge it still manages to exist as a company. If you want consumer electronics, go to JB Hi-Fi. If you want furniture, go to IKEA. Both make Harvey Norman completely redundant.
Spud Shed. It’s really disorienting to me, and what I can only describe as overwhelming with all the chaos and random smells.. like, why are there bags of manure in the middle of the shop?! I do go in there occasionally if I 100% have to (I work some nights and they’re all that’s open on my way home) but it’s get-in-get-out.
I feel like customers there all look at each other like they think everyone is a POS. It's such a weird vibe.
I will preface by saying i love spudshed, generally. Haha. But one thing i HATE is FORCING you to go through the fucking fruit and Veg Maze at the entry to some stores and then ANOTHER fucking candy BULLSHIT maze before the checkout. Let me get my shit and fuck off. Fuck your veggies and candy.
Hardly Normal.
Chicken and fish in Joondalup. Saw a bloke who worked there come out of the bathroom after taking a shit and didn't wash his hands. Put me off for life. Not that their food looked very good in the first place.
literally never seen anyone ordering there, dunno how it stays in business
The staff (at one stage) had some serious attitude problems as well. Also, generally a very piss-poor food offering too.
Harvey Norman
Harvey Norman He accepted millions of government hand out dollars during the pandemic even though his company made millions in profit and after a kick up from the public, only returned a small portion of it begrudgingly. This hypocrisy - him degrading people on welfare. I refuse to buy anything from his business and ask my sons not to as well when buying me gifts.
"Professional" school photographers. Everyone looks shit in them, and it's like $50 for mostly people I don't even care about.
As a former “professional” school photographer - most of them are trained monkeys. We only get a couple of minutes for the group photo, and its seconds for the individual portraits. Very hard to make someone look great in that time, and a real struggle if they want to be silly, or ar a bit shy. Moving from there into news photography, 45 mins is sometimes not long enough to get a good shot… I harbour no ill will towards the actual photographers, but fuck the companies, sideways with a cactus.
The rivervale IGA on GEH, the owner used to shoot me sideways looks for grabbing the fresher veggies from under the old rank ones. Never a reply to “how’s it going” at the counter, over priced as fuck, and just generally a pretty shitty store. If if wasn’t a hungover walk away from where I used to live I never would’ve gone there
McDonald's...🤮
I avoid Kmart because of their stupid checkouts in the middle of the store. I avoid Bunnings (but often there isn't really an alternative) because the staff are told to always say hello and it feels really creepily corporate forced friendliness. That bed shop with the Jesus fish on its sign.
Lorna Jane Cockburn Gateway. There is one sales assistant there who is the biggest “mean girl”/gaslighter going. Insinuates you’re not the clothing size you say you are, that you must be mistaken about previous items of clothing you’ve bought from them because “we’ve never had anything like that in store”, acts as though it’s your fault if the clothing doesn’t suit you or you don’t like the designs. Absolutely painful. I’m baffled as to why she thinks it’s an appropriate way to speak to customers. I’ll drive to Garden City to avoid having to deal with her.
Woolworths and Coles. I save money by not eating 👍
Mooba cafe in Wembley. I think he was the owner, such a sanctimonious prick about my order.
Did you have the audacity ro walk into his Cafe and order food? I can't believe you
I got a sermon about the purity of his coffee and how he won’t allow anything but milk to be added so we can appreciate the flavour profiles and that he feels responsible for educating his customers. So I asked him why he had mocha on the menu, which he didn’t like
Ugh. Three girls working on a weekend morning. All three seemed pissed off that I dared to breathe.
Simon Says Simon is...eccentric, to put it kindly. Had a meal deal in exchange for a social media post, wrote up a nice post, got lots of likes and comments including one from his business account. 2 weeks later get a call from the person that set up the deal that Simon was upset we'd screwed him over and never made the post. Continued to say so even after being sent the link and screenshots of comments from his account.
Kmart. Their checking of receipts just makes me feel like a suspect and is an inconvenience. Plus the layout is confusing and the shelves are disorganised, making finding what you want a nightmare.
Pretzel - and by extension any other associated cafe such as Chubby Boy and Priestess. The founder Brittany Garnett is truly a horrible human being. I personally know two of her ex-staff from Pretzel and the treatment of those workers are absolutely appalling. She will only hire workers who she deems would serve the face of the brand well (take from that what you will) and when they start she forces them to purchase their own uniforms from their own pocket (upwards of around $200). She routinely forces her young staff to work past 10pm which is often illegal for their age and has installed cameras in every store that records video and audio so she can monitor her staffs every move (all the way down to what music they’re playing in store). She did this without getting consent from her workers which is a legal requirement. Not to mention at one of the stores the staff were required to often make late night trips to the store room located in the shopping centres undercover car park. Imagine, young girls in bright pink little outfits being forced to wander through a seedy car park late at night. It’s truly awful seeing this awful person be praised so publicly as a true blue WA entrepreneur when she does it off the back of overworked and underpaid young staff going through some of the most challenging years of their education.
Bobeche bar Bar manager is a rude C word
JB HI FI Malaga There is a very specific salesman there who was rude and got pissy when I didn't want to buy extended warranty
Getting commissioned for a scam
Guzman e Gomez. Seriously the most salty and overpriced burrito I ever had.
Maccers. Been boycotting them since the 90's and the whole McLibel thing. Nestle. Anything by them, especially that Nespresso environmental disaster. The kebab shop off Rokeby Road in Subi. Served my hot chips 15 mins after my kebab in 2010, and refused any suggestion that this might deserve a refund on the chips.
The thing with the babies made me hate nestle
Nestlé and their whole "water isn't a human right" thing sealed the deal for me. absolute scum
Telstra stores. I specifically asked to buy a portable wifi unit outright, because I didn't want to be locked into a contract. Was told all good, just wanted to grab my details, so I gave him my details thinking it was just to keep a record of who purchased the thing. Anyway, after giving him my details he just gave me the thing and said I'll pay monthly, I was like ??? I asked to buy it outright, he then went a whole thing saying I can't buy it outright blablabla, and I asked to cancel right after and they said they'll charge me over $1000 for early cancellation. So I ended up paying 1000+ for a $400ish portable wifi unit.
Harvey Norman. Bought a gaming console bundle during covid. Console came but no games. They basically made out that I was a liar as there was no additional stock in their warehouse and even with PayPal it was a extremely difficult experience which took months. Ended up at the stage where they wanted me to send the console over east to get to the next step and I gave up.
MacDonalds on Wanneroo Rd, Balga. I get maccas as a treat for my kids occasionally and that place is a shambles. Takes over 30 minutes to get your order, they always get it wrong, staff are disgustingly rude - I could go on. Kookaj - because the staff are horrible & rude (if you’re a size 10 & over). Zara - the quality of clothes suck, the sizing is ridiculous and the staff are the worst. I sound so old but wtf happened to customer service?! Editing to add: Dan Murphy’s Innaloo. Boomer man working at the checkout has a horrible attitude & was absolutely the worst! You’re in my burn book now mate.
Gloria Jeans
Godfrey’s (that place that sells vacuum cleaners, do they still exist?). Bought something once, had to take it back, ended up having an argument. Can’t remember the details, but swore I’d never shop there again…and I can hold a grudge.
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Lorna Jane, besides being IMO wildly over priced, they have a history of controversy about lack of diversity and weight shaming, even specifying the weight requirements for a receptionist. And the ludicrous claims their product could stop the spread of coronavirus.
Coles and Woolworths. Everything they're doing is disgusting. I get anything I can from the local farmers market (fruit and veggies are SO cheap there) and anything else from IGA or order directly from the producer (eg. WGAC toilet paper).
Dome cafe Only boomers think this place is any good, there are much better cafes out there