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Asda to fine parking cheats

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Asda to fine parking cheats

ASDA is to slap a £60 fine on parking cheats at its stores.

The get-tough regime will target shoppers who park in disabled spaces without displaying a blue badge, and parent and child spaces without being accompanied by children.

Asda is thought to be the first business in Britain to fine people missusing parking spots.

The policy is being tried out at its stores in Merseyside, but will be extended across the country.

Paul Hedley, from Asda said: "By using these bays without good reason, the actions of the few have a huge impact on many. Many of us simply don't realise just how hard crossing a car park with shopping can be if walking is a real struggle.

"Similarly, those of us who aren't parents are often surprised to learn that, without wide parking spaces, it's almost impossible to remove a baby's car seat from a car."

Asda says it wants to give the Merseyside trial 12 months 'to assess the impact on seasonal shopping', such as the Christmas and summer periods.

But a spokeswoman said all its stores will become involved during the year.

She added: "Asda is not aiming to catch out unsuspecting motorists, rather we hope the scheme will act as a deterrent."

I think this is great, but how does the store fine someone?

Perhaps they will clamp the cars and charge a £60 release fee?
It's private land after all, and I know some workplace carparks in city centres have signs up to this effect.

Good news, good news though.
I want them to have someone standing at the Pick Up Point as well, and waving off cars which are obviously sat there while someone "just pops in" but I am a self-confessed parking reactionary.

That would be SWEET!

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl (Post 389354)

...£60 release fee?...

Just wondering (completely off topic), SG, how do you make a pound sign on your keyboard? I'm not well traveled, so in the UK does the pound sign replace the dollar ($) sign (shift 4)? I know I could press alt + num key #s or just look it up in symbols but does it exist on your keyboard?

£ == left alt *and* numeric keypad 1 5 6

But I suspect it's built into her keyboard, and her Windows is localized for the UK.

But, I'm just guessing.

Tis built into our keyboards - shift 3 is £, shift 4 is $
We have to go hunting for the euro, although I expect it will make its way onto the keyboard sometime soon...

I learn something knew every day.
If shift 3 is £....where do you get #? That's US shift 3.
Btw, my girlfriend's computer has the Euro as it's own button (it's a new Acer laptop, but still sweet)!

euro much tougher. sorry.

euro much tougher. sorry.

Agreed. pics are hijacks too even pictures that talk about hijacks.

oh, and whatever you do, do NOT type ctrl-alt-0144.

you have been warned.

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Originally Posted by BigV (Post 389384)

oh, and whatever you do, do NOT type ctrl-alt-0144.

you have been warned.

This post is already number one for a Google search on "ctrl-alt-0144."

What's it do? I'm not typing it.

DON'T DO IT!!!!

STEP AWAY FROM THE LEDGE!

We covered this already, people.

I Googled it, and what came up was this thread. . . . Edit: Duh...glatt just said that. [/tailpost]

Good For Asda.

Now if only the company woukd introduce regulations on the electronic shopping carts at walmart. No blue tag, no cart, you lazy bastard.

I've started to call, you can get someone towed and/or ticketed just by letting the cops know.

Not in the UK, you can't. It's private land, the cops won't intervene.

That is a shame.
It makes sense now that they let the property fine the morons who park illegally.
Here the city/county makes good money off of these idiots, especially if they are inside long enough to be towed.

You get fined, just by privately employed car park staff.

I still can't figure out what chaffs people's ass about disabled parking, especially those with lifts and ramps like myself who cannot park in a regular spot.
I got a nasty comment at the Matthew's concert.
It really confuses me.
If I was a different person I would have lowered myself to his level and told him it could be arranged that he could get the same kind of spot very easily.

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Originally Posted by rkzenrage (Post 390591)

mostly people seem to get pissed off because they can't find a spot near to the store and yet there is a disabled spot empty. No, not rational, but there you go....

I think it's just childish selfishness. The same you see when someone wants to leave their car in a bus lane in order to go into a newsagent and get a packet of cigarettes. They don't understand that it impacts the 60 (?) people on the bus, just that they were only in there for a second...