Aldi Facebook Page Kicking Off after Parking Eye LBAs

Kite2010

Down to the 2nd page?

Not anymore

I need to do some research to see if Parking Eye are infesting the new Aldi in Winchester...

trisontana

Aldi/PE do seem to have one loyal groupie who has even stated that if she breaks PE's rules she would gladly pay up.

Kite2010

Lets get her details and pretend to be Parking Eye and send her lots of invoices *evil laugh*

Sadly probably part of the generation which thinks those invoices mean something and they pay without questioning it.

Hovite_2

Hate to see this campaign lose it's steam !

trisontana

Aldi's groupie tried to justify PE's claim of £70 by saying that the reason they charge that amount is that by overstaying you are preventing a potential customer from shopping in the store and they "might have spent £70". Of course that mythical customer might only have spent a couple of quid!

peter_the_piper

That also presumes that the car park was totally full and prevented another customer from shopping. never yet seen a full supermarket car park, except on the first few days after initial opening.

nigelbb

If a potential customer were to spend £70 then ALDI's profit will be a very much smaller sum perhaps £5 which it could be argued would be something approaching a fair charge for a parking contravention if a 3rd-party parking management company wasn't aiming to make enormous profits to the exclusion of all other considerations.

Umkomaas

But as Aldi have admitted they get no revenue from the charge, therefore, in the hypothetical situation put forward on FB, Aldi still loses £70 - and PE trouser it.

Just complete rubbish from some 'know it all' who actually knows 'f*ck all'.

Orrin

Umkomaas wrote: »

But as Aldi have admitted they get no revenue from the charge, therefore, in the hypothetical situation put forward on FB, Aldi still loses £70 - and PE trouser it.

Just complete rubbish from some 'know it all' who actually knows 'f*ck all'.

Presumably Aldi feel the charges have a deterrent effect and are willing to tolerate a certain level of "collateral damage".

It cost Somerfield £350k to part ways with PE so it'll be interesting to see what price Aldi put on this bad publicity.

Umkomaas

Orrin wrote: »

Presumably Aldi feel the charges have a deterrent effect and are willing to tolerate a certain level of "collateral damage".

It cost Somerfield £350k to part ways with PE so it'll be interesting to see what price Aldi put on this bad publicity.

Yep - deterrent = penalty. Unlawful :cool: