We go to Lititz frequently to stock up on Wilbur Buds.
Love: Wegman’s, Home Goods, Macy’s, Trader Joes
Hate: WalMart, ShopRite, Sears
Love - Marshall’s, TJ Maxx, Homegoods, Trader Joe’s, World Market, DSW, our local hardware store called Harry’s and Costco
Dislike - Whole Foods (too precious), Walmart (too trashy), giant stores with concrete floors like Home Depot when you have to walk around and around and around until your feet hurt, Macy’s (chaos).
Absolute HELL - the Sprint store - in a class by itself, the Apple store (2nd runner up).
Like: Costco, Lululemon, Nordstrom and their Rack stores, REI, our local hardware store (1/4 of HD yet has everything we need and more!), local nurseries (Molbaks and Flower World), and that’s pretty much it!
Dislike: Macy’s (for people who don’t understand our dislike: Macy’s took over our Bon and wrecked it), Ross (omg, what a collection of crap), Walmart (no explanation needed), Whole Foods (pretentious sales people), Home Depot (your store is as big as the Boeing plant, and you’ve been out of the lightbulb I need?).
My Macy’s here is clean, organized and easy to deal with . I’m surprised it’s not the same everywhere else.
Sears. I hate Sears. Dirty grocery stores. Comcast.
Love my local Ace Hardware. Friendly, well-stocked, clean, bright, did I mention friendly?
Also, most places that are pretending to help me by firing human beings/my neighbors in favor of automated checkouts. I never use automated checkouts, for that reason.
Online, my favorites Amazon, and Zappos
Love: Ross(when I can find one), Target, Nordstrom Rack and Papaya(when I can find one)
Losing Favor: Dillars-I dont know if they switched buyers, but the selection has been awful for the past year!
Hate: Walmart,but will go when necessary
Love: Trader Joe’s except on Mondays when it looks like a plague of locusts have visited over the weekend.
Meh: Kohl’s-Only shop with 30% coupon but it’s hard to find salespeople on the floor to help
Hate: Large department stores which become overwhelming with the amount of departments
PS Circuit City and Radio Shack are “down the tubes” so there shouldn’t be much to hate about them. 
I forgot Radio Shack — I have a love/hate relationship with Radio Shack. When I need something very specific (this very specific battery) I love to be able to go in there and say “I need this” - they grab it, I pay and leave. Yay! But too often I feel too much pressure to buy stuff I don’t need or want.
Radio Shack continues. It was bought by someone.
Well…going to Radio Shack should be a bigger challenge now!
I forgot to add…I can’t stand Yankee Candle. The smells put me over the edge.
@BunsenBurner what is Bon? Not familiar with that store here in CA.
Like: Nordstrom, Costco, Target, local Thriftway, Trader Joe’s, Ulta, REI, Soma, local running store
Will go to willingly, but won’t necessarily buy anything: TJ Maxx, Cost Plus World Market, HomeGoods, The Rack
Only as a last resort: Macys (item must be on sale and never, ever apparel), Fred Meyer near my house (horrific experience there, lines are awful, workers are pathetic)
Never: Kohl’s (ick. horrid place, nasty people), Walmart (nope. never), Ross (filthy, worse than Goodwill)
Love: Wegman’s, the perfect grocery store.
Hate: Trader Joe’s. Am I the only one who feels this way? I hate the layout, the produce is inferior, the “sushi” is inedible, and while there are a few things I do like to buy there, most of their stuff I could do without. It’s too damn crowded, the lines are long, and the bells thing is cheesy.
The Bon Marche has been extinct for years… Swallowed by Macy’s. All is what is left of it is the star/sign on the Macy’s building downtown Seattle and Frango candies.
At one point I was convinced that the only way to get helped in Macy’s was to go to the Clinique counter.
Love Wegman’s but we don’t have them in Tennessee.
Love Cosmetics Market and Sephora. And Lush.
Some Macy’s are ok, not perfect, but bearable. Some… run for your dear life. I needed a thing desperately when I was on a business trip to Arlington, and the only store that possibly had it nearby was a Macy’s. Oh my goodness… That store was the dumpiest Macy’s I ever visited.
I loved my family owned grocery store until their most recent re-organization. You now have to look in three separate locations for spices. What were they thinking? OTOH they added a beer on tap station. I don’t love or hate Target, but it really is noticably nicer than every Walmart I go in.
Interesting thread Thumper.
I’ll second and THIRD that response that the cell phone store is pure HELL!
I seriously cannot stand or shop in a department store. Can’t think of any of them I care to be in.
I’ll add The Gap to a favorite browsing spot.
In my area, Macy’s is the only store that is clean and organized. I love browsing Tuesday Morning and our local consignment stores. I shop for food at Costco and Aldi. The Sephora in the JCPenney’s is one of the only reason to go to the mall.
I hate the Wal-mart with a passion. The local management is horrible and the place looks like a tornado zone every time I visit.
abasket, I love Bivouac also, currently my favorite store
I like TJ, and Nino Salvaggios ( a local produce/ grocery store)
Clothes shopping is generally not very much fun anymore. Used to like Nordstrom, but not as much anymore. Macys is so hard to find anything, so huge and the racks are overstuffed. I do go there to get S shirts because they carry slim sizes as does Kohls. Mostly I like local small boutiques. I just discovered a great boutique shoe store in my town that carries a lot of Italian shoes that I had never heard of before.