Britain's Worst Company

Former_MSE_Archna

Poll Title: Poll Started 5 September. Britain’s Worst Company? Following last week's 'who's Britain's best company', here's a list of the same selected 50 companies. Which is worst for quality, service and price? Who's the anti-role model for corporate Britain?

Abbey
Aldi
Alliance & Leicester
Argos
Asda
B&Q
BP
BT
Barclays
Boots
British Airways
British Gas
Carphone Warehouse
Co-op
Comet
Currys
Debenhams
Easyjet
HMV
HSBC
Halifax/Bank of Scotland
John Lewis
Lidl
Lloyds TSB
Marks & Spencer
Morrisons
NTL
NatWest
Nationwide Building Society
Netto
O2
Orange
Powergen
Primark
Royal Mail
Sainsbury
Somerfield
Starbucks
T-Mobile
TK Maxx
Tesco
The Body Shop
Tiscali
Top Shop/Man
Virgin
Vodafone
WH Smith
Woolworths
Zara


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eclipse

The worst company (imho) is not on the list. It's got to be South West Trains for me. Definitely.

OddjobKIA

Aldi/ lidil vodafone is german not british
asda / starbucks/ tk max / woolworths is american
Co-op is owned and run by the public

so should be left out of the list

imho as the devestation it causes is in the name British Petroleum then BP is the worst role model for corporate Britain.

OddjobKIA

just another thought I see that British gas Tops the list. But surley they have a much bigger customer base being a service provider rather than a retail outlet, like tesco hmv

as has been discussed in Ben500 vote we have now been given the choice to vote for 50 companies to see who is the worst. Only three of those are service providers so the odds are already stacked against them and unsuprisingly they are the top 3.

MSE_Martin

I think Tesco's customer base competes with any service provider - and more than surpasses most of them.

First of all this is an indicative vote on sentiment - nothing more.

Also the key here will be the 'difference' indicator ie subtract best from worst.

While Tesco was most liked, its also in top ten most hated (so far). Yet British gas had negligible 'likes votes' - even with a wide customer base - yet many 'worst'

Darren_E.

Mfi must take some beating. Its misleading sales techniques both in store and particularly on line are very irritating and they absolutely know it. I have phoned and e-mailed them on several occassions to point this out and the general feeling i get is that the staff know it, but legally speaking are within the border lines of what they can get away with.

pin

Aldi/ lidil vodafone is german not british

btw, vodafone is actually british.

cport80

hardly a week goes by without some muppet knocking on our door trying to get us to switch. Don't they know about this site? <gggg>

moragfraser

Somerfield

gav1

I am in shock that I can't seem to find BSkyB under the list of most horrendous firms! Their complacency arising from their monopoly status is unbelievable. Their customer service truly dreadful.

savvy

cport80 wrote:

hardly a week goes by without some muppet knocking on our door trying to get us to switch. Don't they know about this site? <gggg>

I was S T U N N E D not to see Npower in there!!! :eek::eek:
Thanks to them misinforming when I signed up, then 'altering/fiddling' with my meter reading to the high end, I overpaid my bills by £700, it took almost 2 years to actually reach the meter reading they were using, I was accused of fixing my meter, I was fobbed off to a debt collection agency who treated me like scum over the 'phantom' debt that didn't exist, I experienced 3 years of stress trying to get it all sorted, and not once did they apologise after Energy Watch finally got it all sorted and pinpointed it to Npower, which me and British Gas had done 2 years prior....................so you can see when one of their numpties knock the door, like they did this week.......................they get one hell of a story about why I won't be switching to them!! :mad:



And in addition to all that, they accused a friend of mine of fixing his meter..........when it was a key meter, can't tell you the arguments he had with them!:rolleyes:

AND a friends bf used to work for them and has many office stories of dodginess!! :eek:



AND lol couldn't believe I didn't see First Choice in there either................TWICE they've c0cked up our holidays the incompetent twots! :rolleyes::rolleyes: