Businesses that have bad smells

[roadman65]

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?

[english si]

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.

[SteveG1988]

Mr. Bob's Portable Toilets, they always have a rather weird smell. They're always on the job tho.

[1995hoo]

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.

[texaskdog]

I walked into a Circle K in Shreveport that smelled so awful I wouldn't buy the food there.  Like something rotting.

[jeffandnicole]

Fish markets in Chinatowns.

[golden eagle]

I once walked into an Asian marketplace here in Jackson, intending to order some food. It smelled so bad, I walked right back out!

[NE2]

Bed, Bath and Beyond.
Poo Palace.

[Jardine]

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 !

[Mr. Matté]

Anything in NEW JERSEY!

[US71]

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

[Pete from Boston]

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.

[bing101]

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.

[bandit957]

Lately, all McDonald's locations have smelled of stale coffee.

[cpzilliacus]

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.

[txstateends]

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.

[hbelkins]

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.

[golden eagle]

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.

[OCGuy81]

 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.

[bandit957]

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.

[Brian556]

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.

[GCrites]

I don't like the way Subway restaurants smell. I think it's the American cheese they use.

[Pete from Boston]

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.

[MikeTheActuary]

The smell of the grain processing plants in Decatur, Illinois are particularly memorable.

[golden eagle]

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.