ASDA - Parking Fines!?!
ASDA - Parking Fines!?!
27 September 2007, 08:49 AM
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Well obviously you can clamp on private land, but as for just issuing tickets?I'd like to see them enforce it.
It's different in, say, barrier carparks, where you get fined £40 if you lose your ticket, but then they have a way of stopping you leaving (said barrier) but in a large supermarket?
It's different in, say, barrier carparks, where you get fined £40 if you lose your ticket, but then they have a way of stopping you leaving (said barrier) but in a large supermarket?
27 September 2007, 08:54 AM
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Originally Posted by ASDA Flunky's
Today [25 September 2007] ASDA announced it was trialing a tough new approach to tackling the abuse of disabled and parent and child parking bays.
ASDA is the first UK business to trial imposition of a £60 fine on people parking in a disabled bay without displaying a blue badge. The trial also extends to those using parent and child parking spaces without being accompanied by young children.
Regular patrols by Town and City Parking attendants are taking place in sixΠASDA stores on Merseyside over the next year in an attempt to eradicate, once and for all, this perennial problem.
Town and City Parking attendants will monitor ASDA car parks, write up fixed penalty notices and dispatch them to the owners of any vehicle that’s parked where it shouldn’t be.
ASDA is the first UK business to trial imposition of a £60 fine on people parking in a disabled bay without displaying a blue badge. The trial also extends to those using parent and child parking spaces without being accompanied by young children.
Regular patrols by Town and City Parking attendants are taking place in sixΠASDA stores on Merseyside over the next year in an attempt to eradicate, once and for all, this perennial problem.
Town and City Parking attendants will monitor ASDA car parks, write up fixed penalty notices and dispatch them to the owners of any vehicle that’s parked where it shouldn’t be.
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27 September 2007, 09:27 AM
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27 September 2007, 09:29 AM
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How're they going to know you haven't got a kid? Unless they see you get out the car without a child, all you'd have to do is get a baby or booster seat and pretend!
Not that I condone it, of course!
Not that I condone it, of course!
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27 September 2007, 09:36 AM
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Personally, I think the supermarkets should just make ALL the parking bays a little wider so there's no need for seperate bays for parents.
If you do regularly take up space in the parent and child bays without a child, don't come on here whinging when on the occasion you have to park in a normal space someone's bashed your car with their door. It was probably a parent who couldn't park in a P&C space due to some selfish ****. Karma dude, karma.
27 September 2007, 09:43 AM
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I do think that there should be some sort of enforcement. £60 seems a bit steep but then our clamper charges £125 which is a complete rip off but it provides us with some good entertainment 
I would point out that parking in these bays is a double edged sword. I wouldn't park my Impreza in these spaces even with the nipper. If you watch parents getting the shopping and the kids into the car, very often the trolly gets left behind and can quite easily roll into a car. If you look, most of the "dumped" trollies are around that area.
Our Tesco has had a another level built over the existing car park for the staff. I tend to park in there as it keeps the rain off and blocks out the sun.
I would point out that parking in these bays is a double edged sword. I wouldn't park my Impreza in these spaces even with the nipper. If you watch parents getting the shopping and the kids into the car, very often the trolly gets left behind and can quite easily roll into a car. If you look, most of the "dumped" trollies are around that area.
Our Tesco has had a another level built over the existing car park for the staff. I tend to park in there as it keeps the rain off and blocks out the sun.
27 September 2007, 09:45 AM
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27 September 2007, 09:48 AM
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Agreed that if they made the spaces wider, people would not feel the need to take up the parents spaces. I must admit to doing this in the scoob, however would not park in a disabled bay.
27 September 2007, 09:50 AM
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Erm, I think you've answered your own question...
Personally, I think the supermarkets should just make ALL the parking bays a little wider so there's no need for seperate bays for parents.
If you do regularly take up space in the parent and child bays without a child, don't come on here whinging when on the occasion you have to park in a normal space someone's bashed your car with their door. It was probably a parent who couldn't park in a P&C space due to some selfish ****. Karma dude, karma.
Personally, I think the supermarkets should just make ALL the parking bays a little wider so there's no need for seperate bays for parents.
If you do regularly take up space in the parent and child bays without a child, don't come on here whinging when on the occasion you have to park in a normal space someone's bashed your car with their door. It was probably a parent who couldn't park in a P&C space due to some selfish ****. Karma dude, karma.
).Fine the ******* parking in the disabled spaces, thats karma
some daft bint denting your car because they can't park is not karma its being an ar$ehole 
27 September 2007, 09:51 AM
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didn't somebody on here (the recovery driver pikey one cant remember his name) get a fine ages ago for parking outside asda or something? 
as the thread progressed it turned into a moster truck or something
as the thread progressed it turned into a moster truck or something
27 September 2007, 09:54 AM
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27 September 2007, 09:55 AM
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And it is the lazy ******* who park there when they shouldn't. If you''re worried about your car getting dinged then don't park there. Or park at the end of the car park where it's empty. Or do your shopping when it's less busy .. or or .... just don't be a lazy ******!!!!
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27 September 2007, 10:01 AM
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or do what i do and park the car across the road at work and walk across
its funny waiting for the green man at the pedestrian crossing with a trolly full of food
its funny waiting for the green man at the pedestrian crossing with a trolly full of food
27 September 2007, 10:03 AM
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I think there are far to many arrogant people who park in these spaces because they feel they have some kind of "Right" to do so because their cars are to good for regular spaces... *****..
27 September 2007, 10:05 AM
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Beleive me, when you've got a wayward trolley full of shopping, a cranky 2 year old that doesn't want to be strapped into his seat and a Volkswagen that has doors that only stay open in 3 positions (not wide enough to post a letter through, not quite wide enough to get a kid through and finally, all the way wide open)
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27 September 2007, 10:05 AM
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27 September 2007, 10:07 AM
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27 September 2007, 10:07 AM
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Leave the supermarkets to the sheep dinging doors, bumping bumpers, in their SUVs, nosing in other people's trolleys, looking at what other poeple are looking at on the shelf, leaving their spoiled boisterous brats to run wild, clog up the aisles with trolleys and clog up the checkouts after queuing for 10mins, then AFTER everything is scanned and bagged, suddenly decide to rummage round in the handbag to find the purse that has sunk to bottom under the piles of make-up tampons and whatever usuless junk that is carried in there.
If anything they should put a fine on anyone bringing a woman and/or child into a supermarket
If anything they should put a fine on anyone bringing a woman and/or child into a supermarket
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27 September 2007, 10:11 AM
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the supermakets should make a row of wide spaces somewhere else in the car park so those that are concerned about their cars body work can park there without having to resort to mother/child spaces or straddling lines taking up two spaces.
i think there are enough people who value their car for supermarkets to make a sales pitch out of it.
i think there are enough people who value their car for supermarkets to make a sales pitch out of it.
27 September 2007, 10:13 AM
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I think this thread is degenerating into a slagging off session. It's not only women with kids who ding doors, or do stupid things in supermarkets.
I think it says more about where you shop!
I think it says more about where you shop!
27 September 2007, 10:13 AM
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