Tesco - Parent/Child + disabled car spaces

poet123

DaisyClaire wrote: »

So, how can you decide just when disabled people shop? do you leave 1 space, 2 spaces or do you accept that the store has a specific number because that isthenumber they have decided they may need at any one time?

I can't decide. I don't take the last available spot. Simple. If a disabled person wants to park in the P&C spot when someone comes out then absolutely good on them!

So the disabled person has to wait around till a free P&C space opens up?...something you are not prepared to do yourself?
How would you categorise that?


Your action is a selfish one, that suggests you are selfish and have no consideration for others when it suits you.
No. Wrong. I am not selfish in the slightest. My action is to protect my children and yes, to allow me to funtion easier - ie: open my door fully to put my children in. They are to young for me to tell them to wait nicely beside the car whilst I back up out of a tight space to allow them access to the car.

Using a disabled space is not protecting your children, and pretending it is is just window dressing. Anyone who drives, and has kids and uses a supermarket should be able to park in any space safely. There are always spaces further away available for use, so you may have to walk further, and look after your children, that is not so difficult really if you want to do it.


Why is is relevant? do you not take your children anywhere else where there is traffic,parked cars, bad drivers, or where you have shopping to carry?
In a word, No I don't.

So, you never take your kids into town, to the sea side, to a shopping mall......how are they ever going to learn to help you to keep them safe by not running off, holding your hand etc if they never go anywhere where that isr equired?

So, which store is it?, maybe they would like to comment (to their disabled customers who do need the space) on their ongoing instruction to you?

Maybe they would - Brandon in Suffolk, Tescos Metro, who have categorically told me they 'can do nothing about it' and 'just park in the disabled'. This amoung many other quotes I could expose.

To me, if you consider you are exposing them by stating this, that suggests you know very well it is wrong but believe that because they are telling you to do it, that somehow exonerates you.....it doesn't.

What they mean is they can do nothing about your belief/perception that you need a space which is not available, and therefore to relieve the situation they, in exasperation, tell you to "just" park in the disabled.

They can clearly see the alternative is unpalatable to you......park in the overspill, ensure you watch your kids, and walk,..... heaven forbid:rolleyes:

kernewek

I can believe that daisy was told to park in the disabled spaces as that is exactly what tesco told us to do if there were no P&C spaces. However, P&C spaces are a convenience. They help us out and my gripe is with the people who abuse that. Disabled spaces are a necessity though, and imo the need for them is far greater. Therefore I feel very uncomfortable about using them and as such don't.

poet123

Tesco may indeed have told both you and Daisy that......but under what circumstances? were they patrolling the car park randomly saying to parents use a disabled space? I doubt it. Please correct me if I am wrong here.

I assume the statement was made in response to a complaint by you (both) to customer services that no P&C spaces were available, this is where I have a problem, if they provide P&C spaces and they are free use them if you wish, if there are none available, park elswehere.

They are a perk, not a necessity, so dont whinge if they are unavailable, dont push Tesco to try to placate you by telling you to do something which is plainly wrong.

warehouse

janene74 wrote: »

hello. do you know what happened in a tescos over in the north of ireland.
I myself have kids so i was around when i saw this happening.
Do you know what happened. There was a traffic warden outside the store. He spent a very long time going round all the spaces that were supposed to be reserved for disabled or for children and he was either putting tickets on the disabled ones that didnt have the badge or giving the people that had no kids a ticking off for parking on the kids parking space.
eeeeeeeeeeeeek sure was a cross traffic warden. I myself just parked in a normal space and walked cus i didnt want to face him. I know i had two small kids, but i would give him the pleasure of peeking through my window at the two baby seats in the car........
There thats the traffic wardens of northern ireland lol

I applaud that traffic warden. That's exactly the sort of useful job they should be doing. There was one hanging around the kids school last year giving tickets to people who parked on the yellow zig zags, many people were giving abuse but I shook his hand.

trisontana

Assuming that was a private car-park I cannot see why that traffic warden was giving out tickets. They have no powers on private land. Only on public roads and council-owned car-parks.

qetu1357

DaisyClaire wrote: »

Try and put some more reasons behind what you are saying - your statement is a little sweeping to say the least.

You are someone who parks in disabled spaces even though you are not disabled.

Any way you slice or dice it you are selfish.

adouglasmhor

DaisyClaire wrote: »

Ever tried it?

With my son and with my grandkids and my nieces and nephews. Like I said the mums who walk to the store from the surrounding housing seem to have no problem either. But I bet like me they walk about more with their kids and don't drive them everywhere.

adouglasmhor

DaisyClaire wrote: »

But thats puttng people into two groups; those who can cope with their children and those who find it a struggle!
Im don't find life with my children a struggle in the slightest. What I do find a struggle is trying to deal with them, a trolley with !!!!!! up wheels and a ton of shopping, the local tw&ts practising hand brake turns in the main car park and the huge line of traffic always competing to get into the petrol station (this is a BP adjacent to my Tesco store - I have to cross a road - including negotiating low kerbs to get to the overflow carpark where I have to park if the main carpark is full. May I add here the main carpark consists of mostly disabled spaces, P&C spaces and the odd few regular spaces).
This is the layout of one particular store though, I understand they aren't all like that.

Options maybe include shop somewhere else or get someone to look after your kids for an hour or so, it can't be much fun for them having you getting fraught as you struggle with a huge shopping - or does your Tesco store do a delivery service? May be worth getting them to get it home for you and you get to concentrate purely on the little ones.

Forgive me if have stepped out of line but they are only suggestions and yes the P & C spaces should be left for parents like you, but its not always the case as we know. Remember if you always do what you have always done - don't be surprised if you always get what you always got.

Permanent_Marker

Probably not going to be too popular with the following comment but I always find it amazing how many disabled spaces are allocated in multi storey car parks. Several times i've driven to the top of a multi story car park and seen several empty disabled spaces on each floor while every other space is taken.

Guess its better to have slightly too many than not enough?

adouglasmhor

trisontana wrote: »

Assuming that was a private car-park I cannot see why that traffic warden was giving out tickets. They have no powers on private land. Only on public roads and council-owned car-parks.

Is it the same for NI and some shopping centres in the north are council owned, Lisburn for one i think.