Tesco - Parent/Child + disabled car spaces

pimento

When I had a baby in the car (years ago) I used to prefer to get a space close to the trolley bay so that I didn't have to leave the baby alone in the car while I took the trolley back. There never seems to be trolley bays near the parent and baby spaces.

carlislelass

what happened years ago when our children were babies? couldn`t even take a buggy into a shop.

hawkwinddotcom

Why does a parent and child need a space close to the store?

Are parents that much incapable of looking after them and ensuring that they use some road sense (if walking)?

kernewek

hawkwinddotcom wrote: »

Why does a parent and child need a space close to the store?

Are parents that much incapable of looking after them and ensuring that they use some road sense (if walking)?

Oh here we go. The parent and child spaces are for people with babies and toddlers and are not necessarily closer to the store but have a wider space in order to get the child in and out of the car more easily.

Can we please lose the we managed in my day argument. Tell you what lets go back to lack of disabled access, remove lifts from shops. Times change and in my opinion for the better. And as a teacher I am seeing the wonderful work of the last 'so much better' generation

elf06

KERNEWEK - totally agree !!!

ROBERTOMOIR - Not true i am afraid - our carpark fines get issued straight from DVLA

trisontana

elf06 wrote: »

KERNEWEK - totally agree !!!

ROBERTOMOIR - Not true i am afraid - our carpark fines get issued straight from DVLA

Not true. The DVLA do not issue fines on private car-parks. They may pass on the car registration details to the car-park owner but that is far as their involvement in the case goes. Then it is up to the car-park owner or operator to pursue the case through the civil courts. The only money they can claim is loss of income from somebody wrongly parking in that space. Nothing else. Fines can only issued by the police or local councils. Not by private car park owners or operators.

anitalg

Why cant they do a tannoy announcement and ask the owner of blahblah to move his car as he is parked in the incorrect bay? I dont care where the mum and baby spaces are, just that they are wide enough so I can get the buggy by the side of the car to get kiddy out. I had a similar fight with B&Q, I have never been able to park in theirs and they really dont care at all.

Whats the point of having baby, toddler or disabled spaces if they cant be enforced so they can be used by the people they are for??

kernewek

trisontana wrote: »

Not true. The DVLA do not issue fines on private car-parks. They may pass on the car registration details to the car-park owner but that is far as their involvement in the case goes. Then it is up to the car-park owner or operator to pursue the case through the civil courts. The only money they can claim is loss of income from somebody wrongly parking in that space. Nothing else. Fines can only issued by the police or local councils. Not by private car park owners or operators.

I don't think it really matters whether fines are enforcable or not. The threat of a fine will put people off, it doesn't matter if it is acted on. At the end of the day there is a need to put people off using the spaces. Incidentally Tesco etc are perfectly entitled to ban people from their stores.

scottishminnie

kernewek wrote: »

My wife went to Tesco in Helston, Cornwall today with our 8 week old son. Was pouring with rain. She waited for a parent child space and when one came available was promptly barged out of the way by some moron in a big truck 4x4 thing. She confronted the guy and got a load of abuse. He didn't even have a child and so was forced to struggle with a normal space and walk much further with a young baby in pouring rain. On complaining at customer services was met with the response "What do you expect us to do". This is not the first time. We often have problems with people who take these spaces but it is a nightmare trying to get a baby out of a cramped space especially when it is raining. Asda a few miles down the road have a £60 penalty policy, and Sainsburys also have deterrents and it doesn't seem to happen at either. Tesco suggest we use disabled spaces, but don't disabled people need those? There are also plenty of people who abuse these. However, what is the point of having special spaces for people who need them if Tesco aren't prepared to enforce it. Its sad that people are so inconsiderate and such selfish b*St*rds but just as sad that Tesco appear to condone it. :mad:

Firstly - Not sure what the relevance of the 4x4 is - some of us actually live in rural locations and need them and

secondly - I've lost count of the number of times I've watched someone with either a car seat/baby seat in the car or baby on board sticker parking in the spaces when they DO NOT have the child with them but people seem to think that's ok. Strangely enough I always imagined it was only for use when you had the sprog with you.

el_gringo_3

kev_min wrote: »

There used to be a nice un PC way to describe folks who do that, if i recall correctly it rymes with the name of the thing ships use to park.

I can't think of anything that rhymes with tugboat :rolleyes::D