Lucy/20/Scottland, Full-time student

Brands

Pros

Cons

Tk-Maxx

  • Good prices (e.g. Cheap)
  • Great selection of wares/brands
  • Widespread stores
  • Easily distracted by the number of items and wares they have. Makes you spend more than what you need.

Steam

  • Sells products from larger companies to smaller indie developers.
  • A gifting system where you can gift both games and currency for the recipient.

  • Addictive due to low prices during sales, make you buy more than what you need.
  • Don’t have everything.

H&M

  • Cheap
  • Easy to get
  • Not a big variety of clothes.
  • Poor quality.

Patreon

  • Good access to things you’re interested in
  • Helps artists and creators.
  • Monthly payments,

(wish that it could be more)

Amazon

  • Massive variety of items
  • quick delivery
  • Mistreating workers
  • Misleading images
  • Not a great selection in sizes
  • Poor quality control

Youtube

  • No ads, extra content
  • offline features
  • Premium service mainly aimed towards mobile devices.
  • Too expensive for what you get.

Roll20

  • Extra content
  • You get more out of the website
  • You need to pay to use features that shouldn’t be behind a paywall

ECig One

  • A good wide range of wares relevant to what they’re selling (vapes)
  • Stock Fluctuates a lot
  • a lot of poor quality products

Nintendo

  • A lot of games that can be bought for you to enjoy yourself as well with friends
  • You have to pay to be able to play with friends online

Josefine/24/Sweden/Full-time worker

Brands

Pros

Cons

Netflix

  • Good content that suits the interviewed’s taste.
  • Good price
  • Movies appear for a limited time
  • Movie series arent complete (e.g. first movie is there but not the second one)

H&M

  • Big variety of clothes
  • Large price range, making buying clothes more accessible and affordable
  • Good selection in clothes and homewares
  • eco-friendly
  • New designs appear often
  • Fast-fashion
  • New designs all the time to buy
  • Needs to focus more on being eco-friendly

Junkyard

  • Good looking unique fashion
  • Popular brands
  • Expensive

Second Hand

  • You never know what you’ll find
  • Re-cycle clothes that other people don’t want instead of buying new
  • You can donate old unwanted items/clothes
  • Cheap
  • You find items you didn’t know you needed
  • Unique items
  • Hard to find items that you might really need

McDonald's

  • Delicious
  • Good price
  • They get new food now and then, adds variety
  • Fast and easy
  • Diet-friendly alternatives
  • Treats the workers bad
  • Not very eco-friendly
  • Unhealthy

Coop

  • Big variety of wares.
  • Good price
  • Easy to buy groceries
  • Good technology, better access to food shopping
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HBO-max

  • A good selection of movies and series
  • Cheap, affordable for what you get
  • They don’t have a feature where they ask if you’re still watching. If you fall asleep watching it will continue playing
  • Bad UI/UX on the website.
  • When you update the website you get redirected to the selection of profile screen.

Disney+

  • A good selection of Disney movies
  • Good variety of movies overall.
  • Good price, affordable for what you get
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Spotify

  • Good variety and selection of music
  • You can listen to music whenever and wherever
  • Great algorithm
  • Good price for what you get.
  • Radio on playlist gives the same music as in playlist
  • Quality can be better

Mio

  • Good price range
  • You get what you pay for
  • Good designs
  • Potential to be more eco-friendly

Søstrene Grene

  • Great prices
  • Good creative items
  • Good selection of wares
  • nice aesthetic
  • good quality edible items
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Kryddlandet.se

  • A great variety of exotic wares
  • Great prices, affordable
  • Easy to order home
  • Good phone website
  • Better branding
  • UI/UX can be improved


Noah/21/Sweden/Full-time worker

Brand

Pros

Cons

Steam

  • Great variety of games
  • A lot of sales
  • Monopoly on a lot of games
  • DRM

G2A

  • Cheap games
  • Big variety of products
  • They’re pushing their premium services onto you

GOG

  • Cheap games
  • No DRM
  • Not a great variety of games

Hemköp

  • Great selection of wares
  • Small stores

H&M

  • Good clothes
  • Cheap clothes
  • Not great quality
  • You get what you pay for.

Snusbolaget.se

  • Loads of cheap products that would otherwise cost more in store.
  • It takes longer to receive than expected sometimes.


Oliver/24/Sweden/Full-time Student

Brand

Pros

Cons

Snusbolaget.se

  • Great selection of cheap tobacco, that would otherwise be more expensive in stores.
  • It’s very accessible.
  • Good delivery times.
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H&M

  • Cheap clothes
  • Poor availability for men
  • Not a lot of clothes for men focused on female clothes.
  • Poor quality

Lager152

  • Cheap clothes
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Zalando

  • Great selection of clothes with a big price range and a lot of different brands.
  • Quite long delivery times

Stayhard

  • Unique designed clothes
  • Big variety of brands
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Spotify

  • Massive variety of music
  • Good price with what you get
  • A lot of music on the same place, makes it easier so you can use the same app
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Netflix

  • Accessible
  • Okay price with what you get since you can also have several people on the same account
  • Poor selection of movies and series

Nordvpn

  • Good VPN
  • Good service
  • Very good price compared to other services
  • Easy UI
  • Can be used on both computer and phone
  • Might not always be necessary

Hellofresh

  • Good fresh ingredients
  • Gives you a bigger variety of your current diet
  • It’s designed to leave no extra ingredients left over.
  • Makes cooking fun
  • Cheap, saves you money.
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Coop

  • Very accessible because of its availability.
  • Okay price
  • It has what you need
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Gregory/19/Northern Ireland/Full-Time Student, Part-Time Job

Brand

Pros

Cons

Tesco

  • Convenient
  • Expensive
  • Not all stores have the same wares

Lidl

  • Cheap
  • The quality isn’t the best at times
  • They got a different selection compared to other grocery stores

Country Sports

  • Good service
  • Has wares that suits the intervieweds interested
  • Good products
  • Good quality products
  • Expensive

Loughview Guns

  • Good at a specific kind of wares compared to other stores
  • Good customer service
  • You get what you pay for
  • Wares does not always meet expectations
  • Expensive

Translink

  • Reliable
  • Customers aren’t great at following set rules
  • Hygene isn’t as expected

Spar

  • Convenient location
  • Good parking
  • Good meat quality
  • Good staff (one person)
  • Vegetables are not great
  • Bananas are shit
  • No petrol

Centra

  • Petrol
  • Car cleaning services and wares
  • Not the best store, people usually go there for petrol

Amazon

  • Convenient delivery times
  • Certain items have better prices than others
  • Expensive
  • Certain items have better prices than others
  • Delivery drivers does not always find delivery location

McKees Angling center

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  • Expensive
  • Only shop that sells certain items in certain location

Basc

  • Good insurance policy
  • Good Privacy
  • Cheap
  • necessity
  • Rarely needed


Jess/19/Northern Ireland/Part-Time Job, Full-Time Student.

Brands

Pros

Cons

Saltmarine

  • Good customer service
  • Good services
  • Good discounts
  • Cheap
  • A long binding period

EE

  • Good customer service
  • Affordable
  • Better value than other services
  • Can’t phone people abroad

Tescos

  • Clubcard deals
  • Good location

  • Poor selection of wares that are dietary (eg. vegan, lactose-free, etc)

Sainsbury

  • Large variety of wares
  • They offer you good services when you shop there
  • Wares are higher quality compared to other grocery stores
  • They’re not very accessible everywhere
  • Customer service is poor

Quiz

  • Good quality
  • Reasonable price
  • Good variety of wares
  • Terrible return policy
  • Poor opening hours

Primark

  • Cheap
  • Reliable
  • Large selection of clothes
  • Large selection of clothes
  • Poor quality
  • You get what you pay for

Just Eat

  • Handy when you’re too lazy to cook
  • Keep you updated on deliveries
  • Expensive
  • Not reliable

Translink

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  • Expensive
  • Never on time
  • Too many passengers
  • They ignore rules set by the government


Belle/19/England/Part-time worker, Full-time Student

Brand

Pros

Cons

Tescos

  • Meal deals have good prices
  • Reduce section is good
  • Good quality vegan wares
  • Vegan selection is expensive

Lidl

  • Affordable
  • Good quality of fresh fruit and veg
  • Great bakery section
  • Good variety of foods such as nuts, grains, beans and pulses
  • Good Dairy alternatives
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Boots

  • Points systems is rewarding
  • More expensive than other alternative

Superdrugs

  • Cheaper than other alternatives
  • Points system is rewarding

Ebay

Charity shops

Depop

  • Better for the environment than new fashion
  • Cheaper
  • Unique clothes
  • Big benefit that clothes are true to size since they’re been worn and washes

Charity Shops

Depop

Asos

BMA

BMJ


Daniel/21/Ireland/Part-Time Job, Full-Time Student

Brands

Pros

Cons

Crunchyroll

  • Only platform that streams Japanese shows when it comes out
  • Okay price
  • Most features are blocked by a paywall

Spotify

  • You get what you pay for
  • Certain songs doesn’t exist on Spotify

Netflix

  • It has good shows
  • A large selection of movies and tv-shows
  • Affordable
  • Noticable drop on quality of range

Disney+

  • It’s alright
  • Affordable
  • Selection of movies and tv-shows are gradually getting better
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O2

  • Good price with what you get
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Tesco

  • Good location
  • Fresh produce is decent
  • Clubcard
  • It’s the only stores available nearby
  • Alcohol selection is poor

Maniere De Voir

  • Unique designs
  • Frequent sales
  • Good quality

  • Not sustainable
  • More expensive than usual brands

All Saints

  • Good quality
  • Affordable designers clothes
  • Good sales
  • Expensive

Amazon

  • Cheap
  • Fast delivery
  • EVIL
  • App have gotten better
  • EVIL
  • Treats their workers bad

Just eat

  • Food sometimes come quick
  • Unreliable delivery drivers

Circut Laundry

Virgin Media


Chelsea/20/Northern Ireland/Full-Time Student

Brands

Pros

Cons

PS+

  • Free game every month
  • You can speak to people online
  • Affordable
  • Time limit on the free games provided (e.g. You keep the game, but only if you download it within the time limit)

Nintendo subscription

  • You can play online with friends
  • Free items for certain games
  • App for talking to people on your phone
  • Affordable
  • Access to older emulated games
  • It doesnt come with free games like other services.
  • Without it, you’re very restricted on a Nintendo switch

Apple Arcade

  • No ads on any games you have
  • Not a good selection of games
  • Expensive for what you get
  • Without it you have to play games with ads appearing every second or two

Adobe

  • Full access to all their apps
  • Good for schoolwork
  • Easy access

  • Expensive unless you’re a student
  • Apps are difficult to use

Netflix

  • Good range of Movies and Tv-shows
  • Good range of genres
  • You get what you pay for
  • It’s not up to date on movies and tv-shows

Spotify

  • No ads when paying for premium services
  • More than one account, Family subscripiton
  • Good features
  • You can adjust the sound settings
  • Offline features
  • Expensive if you’re one person paying for it

Disney +

  • Good range to loads of different channels
  • Cheap for what you get
  • Up to date range of movies and shows
  • Original produce is good
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Noom

  • Good for healthy weight loss
  • It helps you on your journey
  • Expensive

MagellanTV

  • Good range of different documentaries that doesn’t stream on other apps
  • Easy to navigate
  • Cheap
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Amazon

  • It’s good for finding any type of product
  • A big range of different items
  • Bad customer service
  • Easily scammed
  • Misleading products
  • Rating system is poor
  • Pricing isn’t great

Shein

  • Cheap
  • Good variety on styles
  • Unique clothes
  • You get what you pay for
  • Security isn’t the best
  • Fast-fashion
  • Non-ethical
  • Non-enviromental
  • non-substainble
  • Misleading products
  • Poor quality
  • Small sizes

Hot Topic

  • High quality
  • Alternative fashion
  • Gender inclusive
  • Only available in America
  • Expensive shipping outside of America
  • Expensive

Urban outfitters

  • Good quality
  • Well known brands
  • Substainable
  • Fashionable
  • Trendy
  • Expensive

Tk-Maxx

  • High brands for cheaper
  • Good sales
  • Great variety
  • Has a good home section
  • Treats their workers well
  • Messy

Charity Shops

  • Cheap
  • Sustainable
  • Eco-friendly
  • Charitable
  • Unique items
  • Hard to find stuff you’re actually looking to buy

Pull & Bear

  • Sustainable
  • Good sales
  • Good student discount
  • Not very gender-inclusive

Fresh Garbage

  • Local one of a kind shop
  • Quirky items
  • Expensive

Tesco

  • Clubcard
  • Good range of items
  • Fresh fruit and veg
  • Treats their workers well
  • You can only get deals if you have a clubcard
  • Bad security

Lidl

  • International groceries
  • Cheap alternatives
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Just Eat/Deliveroo

  • Good access to many different restaurants and food
  • Expensive
  • Bad customer service
  • Unreliable

AliExpress

  • Cheap
  • You can find anything
  • You can find items that other retailers sell for original price (much cheaper)
  • Slow shipping
  • Expensive shipping
  • Unrelieable
  • Unsustainable
  • Fast-fashion
  • Cheap

Redbubble

  • Good for merch
  • Original artwork
  • You support the artists
  • Affordable
  • Steals artists work

Phoneacab

  • Handy to get around
  • Sometimes unreliable
  • expensive
  • Untrustworthy

Crunchyroll

  • High range of genres
  • You have access to dubbed and subbed shows
  • International
  • Many features
  • Affordable with what you get access to
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