Topic ID 587
This is a message for all the lazy and inconsiderate drivers (male & female)who wrongly use these spaces as they are the nearest to the store. This makes everyone who legitimately needs the spaces park further away and in smaller bays. Try loading a baby into a pram with traffic going past about 2 feet away! It is obviously much safer to be beside the car in the correct spaces. Even though there is a large sign as you drive in and clear markings on the tarmac, these people still park in the bays. What's even worse is that you drive round following the correct flow of traffic, they go against the arrows and dart into the place thinking no one has seen them. My wife (with two children in tow!) challenged a bloke who drove into the last available space and he sheepily moved out - why was he such an idiot!! I think everyone should bombard Tescos frequently to get instant parking fines issued and have appropiate staff to keep these drivers out of the spaces. If you have a child seat and no children with you it does not entitle you to park in the space - it seems that a lot of drivers also think this gives you an automatic right to park in the space! Unfortunately a lot of people these days do not care, they think of themselves and not others. I have to keep this toned down a bit but it really gets my goat. I hope all the idiots who use Tesco's take note as we can do without you and your attitude. There endest the lesson!!!!!!!!
Reply ID 4947
Whilst I agree with the points raised, what gets my goat is the parents who insist on bringing children who wont behave into Tescos. They get under our feet, scream the place down and with the people that think blocking up the aisles for a long chat make shopping in Tesco's a complete nightmare.
Reply ID 4951
What irritates me is that the mother and children spaces are nearest to the entrances. It would be better if they were the furthest spaces from the store and then the children could practice walking. They might actually get to like it and it could help them to keep fit. We keep hearing that in general, children are getting fatter, I am sure that encouraging them to walk less is not helping. I think that the parking spaces nearest the store should be for older people who find it more difficult to walk. I realise that there are spaces for the disabled, but they are often the first to be filled by anyone who can't be bothered to walk a few yards further.
Reply ID 4953
Nice one Whereaami [and Martin][^]
Reply ID 4958
Do you have any children yourselves? Can I jump to the defence of many children, my own included. We walk our oldest to school and back every day, as do many parents. She is not overweight, nor are most of her class. It is the whole population that is becoming more overweight, not just children. My children are also made to behave properly wherever they are, including Tescos. I think it is the minority of children who 'get under our feet' and 'scream the place down ', although I agree that it sometimes feels like the majority! It would not particularly bother me if the spaces were further from the store. But with a trolley load of shopping and more than two kids you just would not have enough hands. With people reversing out of their spaces, you need 'eyes in the back of your head' in any car park. My Mother-in-law has a disabled badge, and says she can usually find a place, although she finds it just as irritating when there is incorrect use of the spaces. Can we agree that the best solution would be for Tescos to 'police' these spaces more than they do at the moment. If they make these spaces avilable to help people, then they should oversee them!
Reply ID 4959
Are you guys forgetting that you were probably screaming brats yourselves !!!!!. As a mum of a young toddler, I think your comments are outrageous, what am I supposed to do with him when I need to shop? tie him outside with the dogs?. Unfortunately some children of a certain non-speaking age find their only way to express anger and frustration is to scream and cry. This is no reflection on the parent or child its just NORMAL, and if mine does it in tescos I couldn't really give a toss what anyone else thinks, in actual fact I would like to join him if I could, as I find the whole experience of shopping in that place makes me want to scream too.
Reply ID 4965
Well said,Bolly and Darellh.Another point to raise is the trolley boys.Just how many cars get scratched or dented by their competition to gather the most trolleys?
Reply ID 4966
Bolly...........I think your comment 'I couldn't really give a toss what anyone else thinks' sums the situation up rather succinctly.
Reply ID 4972
Oops put my foot in it there!!, my comments weren;t about baby's or small toddlers, I know their only way of communication is crying, Its the older ones who get the strop because they can't have the sweets or latest marketing gimic aimed at kids. Should really get up early on a Saturday and go when they open......Kid & Chatterbox Free Zone !
Reply ID 4979
Martin, you misunderstand my comment. It is stressful enough to be shopping with a child having a tantrum, let alone start worrying about what everyone else thinks.
Reply ID 7799
With regards to the inconsiderate drivers using the wrong spaces nothing much has changed, to ask Tesco's to manage this properly seems to be a task they would rather do without as today I saw an employee who works at the shop blantently park her Green Peugeot 106 (just to make sure everyone knows who she is!) in the Mother & Toddler space and walk away. What chance have the Parents who need the spaces got when this happens!!!! Tesco's you need to do something rather than sit back and watch it happen.[:(!]
Reply ID 7800
Oddly enough it is usually the "Mothers with Children" vehicles that seem to take up the 'Disabled' spaces at any of these car parks.
Reply ID 7803
I use the "Mother & Child" parking spaces, but only when I have one of my (under 4's) in it. My wife has had a go at people parking sooo many time, which invariably ends up in a bustup!! The thing is I can't get involved with the verbal, physical bun fights in the car park.....because.............wait for it..............I work in Tesco Head Office, but as a programmer, and therefore have no direct influence, BUT the buyer responsible for CarPark contracts, sits about 12 feet away from me.......I will forward a link to this thread directly to her. These opinions are mine, and not that of Tesco, blah blah blah Have a good xmas
Reply ID 7804
quote:Just to be PC are they marked as parent and child spaces? I was in ASDA in Hatfield last week and noticed that they have expectant mothers parking, personally i feel more store should have them. But thats just my personal opinion as i am 33 weeks pregnant.
Originally posted by Gerbil
I use the "Mother & Child"
Reply ID 7805
Doh!, good point. Silly me. Sorry.
Reply ID 7822
I had a go at the driver of a "single occupancy car" in a parent & child spot & just got a torrent of foul mouthed abuse. Shrugged my shoulders, smiled sweetly and walked on.
Reply ID 7823
Unfortunately, having marked all these spaces, supermarkets seem to have no interest in policing them. I can understand that there is no money in doing so, since they won't get any more sales (if the parent/child slot is full do you drive away, or just park somewhere else in the car park) and they would have to pay the wages for someone to supervise. You then get the fact that there is no legal standing to these bays on private land, and the only thing that the supermarket could do if someone parked improperly and refused to move would be to refuse to serve them. So the bays have no legal standing, it would be costly to police, and doing so would not increase sales. Any wonder they don't bother. [:(]
Reply ID 7824
Surely the Tesco car park attendant can give them a ticket the same as he would if they stayed there over 2 hours (or whatever the maximum stay is).
Reply ID 7836
The car park man in Tescos has ushered me into disabled parking spaces in Tescos on a busy Friday morning sometimes, I think if the parent & child spaces are full and he can see you have kids he will let some of the disabled spaces be used.
Reply ID 7869
If you have a go at one of these offenders dont you expect a response in the same tone?! A lot of these spaces are missused, big deal - if you want to complain about that how about the people that park over the white lines, the mothers in big 4x4's who take up so much room, the people that take no care when opening their door into your car..........tesco police the use of the mother and toddler spaces - I dont think so!
Reply ID 7879
we could all moan about what's wrong in the world I'm sure!
Reply ID 7884
quote:I have had the man usher me into the pick up point in Hertford Tesco I suppose if the store is that busy the priority is to park the cars.
Originally posted by kate darcy
The car park man in Tescos has ushered me into disabled parking spaces in Tescos on a busy Friday morning sometimes, I think if the parent & child spaces are full and he can see you have kids he will let some of the disabled spaces be used.
Reply ID 7975
I think people parking properly in general is a laugh. I can't get a space in tescos to get my kids out of the car, and I can't push them down the road in a buggy as the cars are parked on the pavement, the tescos car park is used by people who can't be bothered to pay the 30p to park in the paying ones. Do the owners of the cars have children? who cares - they don't have consideration for others, just that THEY are in a rush.
Reply ID 7977
cant be bothered to pay 30p to park........so where nearby tesco's is there a pay and display car park?! Kibes Lane is the nearest which has a very limited number of spaces. Some people will, and do abuse tesco's car park but the majority do not, there is simply a lack of adequate parking in Ware.
Reply ID 7982
If you want to shop in Tescos, then park in the carpark. If you want to do shopping in town....then you should use one of the carparks. I do agree, there are def. lack of parking spaces in Ware.
Reply ID 8009
The Tescos car park used to be a council car park (Well half of it did anyway) Have tescos actually bought it off the council now? Also if you go further back in time all of the car parks in Ware were free.
Reply ID 8012
If part of Tesco's car park belonged to the Council, would one not have to pay to park there ??
Reply ID 8014
Tesco's bought the land from the council when they extended the store years ago. They also bought the derelict land adjoining the council car park to extend the existing car park.
Reply ID 8020
I've noticed that there are some cars parked in there all day whilst their owners are at work in the town. ie in shops. There are just a few that I recognise - how many more that I don't?
Reply ID 8027
Just think how bad parking is going to be when 20,000 new homes are built in East Herts. The only central location for a new car park is on the site in Broadmeads which is earmarked for business development, but which may be used for housing instead. Things are only going to get worse, not better.
Reply ID 8060
exactly, how can people be expected to park correctly all the time when parking spaces are lacking so severely?!
Reply ID 8064
But, surely this will mean that all these people will have to use public transport and isn't that the government's policy. Increasing parking availability will only make it easier to drive. If they build all these homes without adequate parking around them, and make sure that you can't park in town, it will discourage car ownership. Job done![:(!]
Reply ID 8072
True, years ago my mum would push me down the town in my pushchair, do a couple of days worth of shopping (we didn�t have a freezer), chat to her friends, take my dad (a shop owner) his lunch and push me home again to start preparing the evening dinner - no need for parking spaces and easy when you are a full-time housewife. Today we are a one car family. As a self employed person working in Hertford who frequently needs access to the car, I have to work very closely with my wife to arrange who has the keys and when. The car does so many trips between Ware and Hertford I wonder if we are doing more harm than good to the environment.
Reply ID 8076
When I lived in Ware I would walk into town, and when I was little my mum used to have to walk to Tescos to do her shopping.
Reply ID 8077
quote:The problem at the moment is that Public Transport is more expensive than Car travel and if you use Public Transport regularly it costs a small fortune. The standard government response to this seems to be that they should make car travel more expensive. Unfortunately this doesn't work because it is still too expensive to use public transport. To get people to use public transport more it needs to be easy, frequent and cost effective - otherwise people will stick to their 4x4 pansy wagons and drive to the shops every time.
Originally posted by Tom Davison
But, surely this will mean that all these people will have to use public transport and isn't that the government's policy. Increasing parking availability will only make it easier to drive. If they build all these homes without adequate parking around them, and make sure that you can't park in town, it will discourage car ownership. Job done![:(!]