I was noticing lately that all the 7 Elevens in Florida (or at least Orlando) all been having a toxic type of smell when you walk in to them. Sort of like plastic being burned.
Then Amscot, I have been in two of them lately, and not like the famous convenience store, but has one odor of its own that I cannot put my finger on, but almost like a chemical type of smell yet in the clean sense.
Anybody else have any places that have a bad odor to them that you frequent?
Pretty much any place that does cosmetics/beauty products. OK, I don't typically like the individual smells on their own, but together they form a clashing cacophony of perfume that is so overpowering, I wonder how anyone can stand it.
Mr. Bob's Portable Toilets, they always have a rather weird smell. They're always on the job tho.
Women's hair salons at the shopping mall. I don't know what they do in there that causes the smell, but every time I walk by one, I think it smells foul. I go to a barbershop at a shopping mall and I pass a nearby women's hair salon when I leave.
I walked into a Circle K in Shreveport that smelled so awful I wouldn't buy the food there. Like something rotting.
Fish markets in Chinatowns.
I once walked into an Asian marketplace here in Jackson, intending to order some food. It smelled so bad, I walked right back out!
Bed, Bath and Beyond.
Poo Palace.
I'm not too far from an ethanol plant (and some other bioconversion processes).
It has a pronounced odor, but to me it is kind of a spicy foody smell I don't mind. I've noticed it at my house, 20 miles away if the wind is right.
The rendering plant SW of Dennison is just nasty. Blech !
Anything in NEW JERSEY!
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Quote from: 1995hoo on February 03, 2015, 07:49:12 AM
Women's hair salons at the shopping mall. I don't know what they do in there that causes the smell, but every time I walk by one, I think it smells foul. I go to a barbershop at a shopping mall and I pass a nearby women's hair salon when I leave.
Probably the chemicals they use for perms
I lived next to a dairy for a while. Cow shit I can handle, but cow shit and sour milk on a hot day is something that took a lot of getting used to.
The Oil Refinery near the Carquinez Bridge in Crockett, CA sometimes a bad egg smell comes out.
Smart and Final in Vallejo, CA has a bad egg smell near CA-29.
Lately, all McDonald's locations have smelled of stale coffee.
Pulp mills, in places as diverse as South Carolina, Maryland, Maine, Finland and Sweden always seem to emit a distinctive odor that can be pretty foul at times.
Quote from: US71 on February 03, 2015, 11:51:36 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 03, 2015, 07:49:12 AM
Women's hair salons at the shopping mall. I don't know what they do in there that causes the smell, but every time I walk by one, I think it smells foul. I go to a barbershop at a shopping mall and I pass a nearby women's hair salon when I leave.
Probably the chemicals they use for perms
It is the perm stuff. My sister used to run her own beauty shop--awful smell. She kept it clean and swept up and everything, but those perms, >ugh<
There are a couple of rendering plants up in the Panhandle, I've been by one. When you already have a weak stomach, you don't want to drive by one of those places. How the people stand to work there is beyond me.
In SE Texas there are pulp mills, those stink too.
There used to be a sulfur plant north of I-20 east of Dallas, it was fairly stout there but not as bad as the pulp mills or the rendering plants.
An older Safeway store where my late mother's folks were from, had a strange smell to it, especially when you first came in the store. I was told by several people it was from the meat department possibly having bad drainage.
In my youth, I remember a deli on Shelbyville Road in St. Matthews (Louisville suburb) in a strip mall where we often stopped to shop at a store that was located there. I think it was O.G. Wilson, but I may be mistaken. At any rate, that deli absolutely stunk to high heaven. I went in there a few times to get something to drink and it was putrid. I don't know how the employees managed to work in there all day.
Quote from: cpzilliacus on February 03, 2015, 01:19:12 PM
Pulp mills, in places as diverse as South Carolina, Maryland, Maine, Finland and Sweden always seem to emit a distinctive odor that can be pretty foul at times.
I once crossed the Mississippi River at Natchez, and there was a foul order as I got into Vidalia, LA. I believe there's a mill there. That may also explain the stench the time I was in the Monroe/West Monroe area.
Been at least a decade since I was in a K Mart, but they always had the smell of stale popcorn to me, like they just kept reusing the same popcorn at that terrible food court day in and day out.
Kmart usually did smell weird. And every time I buyed Chips Ahoy cookies there, they tasted funny, as if the smell of the store infested the cookies.
And Walmart often smelled of a bunker blast.
Sam's Club, especially the one in Chattanooga, TN. Had a funky smell.
99cent Store. Denton, TX: Run by people from India, it smelled like body odor.
Stein Mart. Lewisville, TX. I think this might have also been a case of employees with B.O.
I don't like the way Subway restaurants smell. I think it's the American cheese they use.
Dunkin' Donuts's smell is off-putting to me. Slimily sweet grease. And as they say, if you can smell it, it's alreadycoating your lungs.
The smell of the grain processing plants in Decatur, Illinois are particularly memorable.
Kirkland's! It's not really a bad smell, but they overdo it with the fragrances they use. Kinda like a guy who uses too much cologne. Small doses are fine; too much makes a person gack.
Some Walmarts stink. I complained about it and they said it was because birds would fly into the store, shit all over the place, and die in the rafters. I don't know whether to believe that or not because it was more of a poo smell and less of a death smell. Some EZ Mart convenience stores smell like shit as well.
Chicken houses stink really bad. Chickenshit is a distinct odor: it isn't the typical poo smell, it's more of an ammonia type odor and can be detected from several hundred feet away. Hog farms smell even worse. I would put a bullet in my head if i had to live on a hog farm.
Quote from: GCrites80s on February 03, 2015, 08:39:32 PM
I don't like the way Subway restaurants smell. I think it's the American cheese they use.
I always figured it was the bread. They do have a distinctive smell, though.
Quote from: Jardine on February 03, 2015, 10:18:44 AM
The rendering plant SW of Dennison is just nasty. Blech !
I believe (I don't know for sure whether it's true) that they have to have one right in the center of Omaha. You can really smell it if the wind is blowing right at the I-80/I-480/US 75 interchange.
The one that really catches me off guard is the bakery next to my job, or at least it did before I got used to it. Sometimes, it smells like a bakery and sometimes, I'm not quite sure what it is. But it permeates it's way through the building I work in.
Last, but not least, is any strip club, complete with stale beer and stale perfume.
Quote from: bugo on February 03, 2015, 11:48:14 PM
Some Walmarts stink. I complained about it and they said it was because birds would fly into the store, shit all over the place, and die in the rafters.
Oh, is that all. Well, nothing to be concerned about, then.
Quote from: golden eagle on February 03, 2015, 05:08:12 PM
Quote from: cpzilliacus on February 03, 2015, 01:19:12 PM
Pulp mills, in places as diverse as South Carolina, Maryland, Maine, Finland and Sweden always seem to emit a distinctive odor that can be pretty foul at times.
I once crossed the Mississippi River at Natchez, and there was a foul order as I got into Vidalia, LA. I believe there's a mill there. That may also explain the stench the time I was in the Monroe/West Monroe area.
Indeed, there was a paper mill in West Monroe last few times I've driven through on I-20, and the stench is noticeable by passing motorists on the freeway.
But not as bad as the giant stockyard along I-5 in California's Central Valley.
Something along the New Jersey Turnpike smells like something fierce, as I learned the last time I had to drive into New York City and decided to use the Turnpike. I made the mistake of having my windows down (it wasn't too cold and my car was pretty hot) as I approached the exit for the Goethals Bridge. Oh man, I don't know WHAT I smelled there, but I instantly closed my windows after the stench wafted up my nostrils. It didn't help though, it already invaded my car.
Quote from: Zeffy on February 04, 2015, 10:10:42 AM
Something along the New Jersey Turnpike smells like something fierce, as I learned the last time I had to drive into New York City and decided to use the Turnpike. I made the mistake of having my windows down (it wasn't too cold and my car was pretty hot) as I approached the exit for the Goethals Bridge. Oh man, I don't know WHAT I smelled there, but I instantly closed my windows after the stench wafted up my nostrils. It didn't help though, it already invaded my car.
Chemical Plants and Refineries. Possibly low tide adding to it. Was it a Sulfur like smell?
Quote from: SteveG1988 on February 04, 2015, 10:14:48 AM
Chemical Plants and Refineries. Possibly low tide adding to it. Was it a Sulfur like smell?
Probably was, I've never smelled sulfur so I wouldn't know. All I know is that it smelled like someone took a monster dump right in my face.
Quote from: Zeffy on February 04, 2015, 10:19:41 AM
Quote from: SteveG1988 on February 04, 2015, 10:14:48 AM
Chemical Plants and Refineries. Possibly low tide adding to it. Was it a Sulfur like smell?
Probably was, I've never smelled sulfur so I wouldn't know. All I know is that it smelled like someone took a monster dump right in my face.
The large Bayway refinery is right there. It's the primary source of some unpleasant generalizations about the fragrance of New Jersey, now that the dumps and pig farms in the Meadowlands are closed.
If you want to talk about bad smells, how about the ones emitted on I-190 in New York between I-290 and the South Grand Island Bridge.
I think that was the worst smell (next to paper mills in GA) that I have ever witnessed. I do not know what it was, but was glad to get out of that industrial area fast.
Another business that comes to mind as having an awful smell is those mall stores that sell cologne and perfume. Can't see how a person would work in one without getting all sorts of headaches!
I love the stink of spent grain at breweries, though I could see it being unpleasant for some.
KFC.
That is all.
Quote from: SSOWorld on February 04, 2015, 06:04:27 PM
KFC.
That is all.
Yes. I used to like A&W, but many have closed and most of the ones remaining in the U.S. are joint A&W/KFC and they all smell like chicken grease. Now I have to go to Canada for my A&W fix. (Which is probably just as well, really.)
I used to work in room service at one of the infamous Westgate Resorts in Orlando, and one time I delivered food to this one couple. The girl was absolutely gorgeous and was one that could be a professional model/ actress type, yet the guy she was with had the worst case of bo ever! It was disgusting and made me totally sick, especially when they invited me inside to gather the cash to pay for the food. He, admittedly, had the worst case of body odor ever that I have every witnessed in my entire life and I have smelled some pretty bad ones over my years of existence too!
How could his wife or girlfriend be around him most of the time and not get sick is beyond me.
There are a lot of places in this world where the smell of people doesn't repulse everyone so much that they have to replace it with fictions like "fresh mist" or "cool musk." It's weirder to need to smell like those things than it is to not be repulsed. Another so-called problem brought to you by Marketing.
Stores that smell like urine repulse me.
Hobby Lobby stores have an odd plasticky odor.
Quote from: formulanone on February 05, 2015, 01:21:04 PM
Hobby Lobby stores have an odd plasticky odor.
That's to give their employees headaches so they won't have sex.
There is a little bait shop/convenience store on SR 207 in the tiny hamlet of Pancoastburg, about 45 minutes from here. If I buried my face in a bag of week old cat litter it would smell less like piss than this place.
I seem to catch a whiff of raw chicken every other time I step into a Buffalo Wild Wings.
Waynesville and western Haywood County has a stench still that is unbearable. It is why I try to avoid Champion Paper at all costs, because of their dioxins befouling the Pigeon River at the Tennessee border. This was years ago by the way.