Tesco - Parent/Child + disabled car spaces

BFG_2

oohhh, this is getting very philisophical.....love it.

Ivory_Tinkler

poet123 wrote: »

I agree, to a point, I personally wouldnt park there, but and it is a big but, these spaces have only appeared becuase the stores bowed to pressure from parents.
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I actually disagree with your comment - it is more likely to be because of the over zealous health and safety laws that seem to have emerged over the past few years

KILL_BILL

there was a report in the london metro of a member of the public took a picture of a police care that had been parked in a disabled bay. They also took a picture of the offending officer coming out of tescos reading a tesco catalouge and carying a bag of shopping

when the police force where asked to explain themselves they said the officer was actually collecting cctv evidence in respect of a shoplifting case

poet123

Well, I know that in my local Tesco they were petitioned by parents to increase the number and location of the P&C spots, and they did so.

Health and Safety issues would not be a problem if the parents were properly supervising their kids on the car parks. So, again it is too easy to say it all stems from the powers that be, the parental lobby is very strong and does have power, the power of the family pound.

Ivory_Tinkler

poet123 wrote: »

Well, I know that in my local Tesco they were petitioned by parents to increase the number and location of the P&C spots, and they did so.

Health and Safety issues would not be a problem if the parents were properly supervising their kids on the car parks. So, again it is too easy to say it all stems from the powers that be, the parental lobby is very strong and does have power, the power of the family pound.

I don't really care how many of these spaces there are or where they are. Our tesco car park is huge and so there is plenty of room. I would rather see them put there so that a responsible parent can safely pop their youngster into a car seat with minimal fuss. I think the OP's gripe was that someone who didn't have a child nipped into the place that they were waiting for which is lazy and shows an appalling lack of manners.

Pound

KILL_BILL wrote: »

there was a report in the london metro of a member of the public took a picture of a police care that had been parked in a disabled bay. They also took a picture of the offending officer coming out of tescos reading a tesco catalouge and carying a bag of shopping

when the police force where asked to explain themselves they said the officer was actually collecting cctv evidence in respect of a shoplifting case

I saw a similar thing in a different Tesco. The PC parked in a taxi bay and came back out 5 minutes later with a sandwich and a bottle of pop.

poet123

Ivory_Tinkler wrote: »

I don't really care how many of these spaces there are or where they are. Our tesco car park is huge and so there is plenty of room. I would rather see them put there so that a responsible parent can safely pop their youngster into a car seat with minimal fuss. I think the OP's gripe was that someone who didn't have a child nipped into the place that they were waiting for which is lazy and shows an appalling lack of manners.

You are in the minority if you do not care where they are though, most parents who see the need (as opposed to want!) think they should be as close, or closer, than the disabled spaces, because they have equal rights to be close to the doors.

It is not diffcult for a parent to pop their child into a car seat in a normal space, it may be very much easier to do so in a larger space, but that is not quite the same thing.;). For anyone to nip into a space where someone is clearly waiting shows an appalling lack of manners

pogofish

poet123 wrote: »

I agree, to a point, I personally wouldnt park there, but and it is a big but, these spaces have only appeared becuase the stores bowed to pressure from parents.

I don't think that had much to do with it. IIRC, the prime mover behind P&C spaces was research that suggested prople shopping with kids were liable to spend a lot more money than a parent with an organised list on their own.

Or rather that and a rather excerable American psychological construct called "Mom-Time".

It would be a lot more honest if they called them "wadge" spaces IMO.

poet123

That was the idea behind it when it was introduced into The states I believe, but then it was lobbied for over here. I know this because I have had many an "interesting" conversation with a friend who was a member of a parent pressure group who was involved in the negotiations with superstores before they were introduced into the UK.

pogofish

I remember it was Tesco who introduced them first, then all the other stores were trampling over each other in a rush to copy them.

The purchasing habit studies were replicated over here as well - I remember covering them for a marketing qualification around that time. Spent many brain-boiling hours wandering supermarket asiles looking at what the various firms were up to. Never got a ticket for overstaying then!