Aldi Facebook Page Kicking Off after Parking Eye LBAs

sheilamary3

I was sent a fine this week after overstaying my welcome on our local Aldi carpark.. I read all the advice re waiting it out and ignoring all correspondence etc etc. Being under a fair amount of stress re other problems I just did not want to add this to it. I phoned Aldi Customer Services this morning.They put me on to their Parking dept. I explained that I was shopping with my two little grandaughters and also doing shopping for my daughter. the little ones (aged 3 and 4 ) had both decided they needed the loo! Aldi does not have toilets for public use so I took them to a cafe in the next street to use theirs.and returned. Aldi were very reasonable and said that their intention was not to penalise genuine shoppers but to clamp down on people using it as free parking and shopping elsewhere.Our store in particular, gets very busy and often I struggle to park during peak times
.They cancelled my fine there and then.They also said that if I had any problems in the future to give my reg no to the manager to prevent a further fine.

Stroma

Well good news if they cancel this for you. But please realise that Aldi breaks planning restrictions in a lot on car parks. When they apply for planning permission most councils puts on condition that the parking is for about 3 hours, and its to serve the local community as well as them.

Then along comes Parking Eye with signs saying parking is limited to Aldi customers only, and they have parking restrictions of about 90 minutes. This is a direct breach of them getting permission to build the store to begin with.

Also there is widespread abuse of the rateable value of the car park, its rated very low because no income generation is supposed to be there, so they are also avoiding taxes, just like Amazon has been doing for years. And Aldi is just one of a number of companies who are doing the same.

Umkomaas

sheilamary3 wrote: »

I was sent a fine this week after overstaying my welcome on our local Aldi carpark.. I read all the advice re waiting it out and ignoring all correspondence etc etc. Being under a fair amount of stress re other problems I just did not want to add this to it. I phoned Aldi Customer Services this morning.They put me on to their Parking dept. I explained that I was shopping with my two little grandaughters and also doing shopping for my daughter. the little ones (aged 3 and 4 ) had both decided they needed the loo! Aldi does not have toilets for public use so I took them to a cafe in the next street to use theirs.and returned. Aldi were very reasonable and said that their intention was not to penalise genuine shoppers but to clamp down on people using it as free parking and shopping elsewhere.Our store in particular, gets very busy and often I struggle to park during peak times
.They cancelled my fine there and then.They also said that if I had any problems in the future to give my reg no to the manager to prevent a further fine.

It's good to know that you've had this cancelled.

The problem with the Aldi stance is that ANPR cameras cannot discriminate between genuine (Aldi) customers and others. Genuine customers who overstay, as you did, all face the harassment, aggravation and hassle to try to get this FINE (Aldi's very own words) overturned, some feel so intimidated they pay £70 - £100 to get it out of their life, others ignore and end up in court against a rabid PPC represented by lawyers at each hearing - and these are the GENUINE Aldi customers. That's the first point.

Second point is this. Many of the initial Aldi submissions for planning permission accepted the Local Authority stipulations that their car parks would provide no less than 3 hours free parking AND be available for use by motorists who wished to shop at other outlets in the vicinity. Aldi were quite happy to agree this in order to get planning permission, but once in bed with PE rapidly reneged on their legal agreement with the local authority.

Aldi has already received fines in the Brighton area for this, and I'm sure more might follow as a result of stirring up a hornets' nest of public outcry.

Point number three is that their car parks are more than likely zero to low-rated by the Valuation Office as they offer free parking with no income accruing from the car parks. However, PE (and possibly Aldi by way of shared commission, but definitely by way of receiving free service from PE) are now actually farming income from said free car parking facilities. So, yet again, this storm is more than likely to see cash-strapped councils now having a very close look at the rates they have been denied since the appearance of PE at each Aldi car park.

The tiger is definitely grabbed by the tail here - how Aldi (despite their rather strident defence of their position) must be ruing the day PE came a-knocking!

spacey2012

They would not let clampers in their car parks yet they think these paper clampers are acceptable, they bully and intimidate customers, they use DIY non certified VCA equipment that makes mistakes and they generally lie and cheat.
You would have to be stupid to drive in to a Aldi car park with these paper clampers operating.
They are greedy manipulative crooks who will stop at nothing until they have screwed every customer this once fine supermarket had.
Make no mistake, the customers will leave them in droves and they will never go back.
This is Aldi's "Ratner's moment " they built up such a good business model and they go and shaft it up by getting in to bed with a bunch of nasty crooks like this and let them loose on the very people shopping with them.
They get what they have coming, they will soon learn why another supermarket chain paid millions to be rid of these customer leaching parasites.
I doubt they will have the brains to do the same.

Take an idea on dragons den Aldi .
"We want to open a supermarket and then scam all the customers with fake parking tickets"
See what they say will happen to your business .

Hovite_2

Shhhh ..... I'm back on

Hovite_2

Ohhh - they've bitten !

And tonight Matthew I'm going to be ......... Tamara :rotfl:

Hovite_2

OK I'm banned from Aldi's facebook page but it didn't stop me spotting their request for a change of planning permission at their Portslade store today. Initially they were granted permission for the store just as long as there was 3 hours free parking for ALL local shoppers. Then at a later date they got it reduced to 2 hours ( while getting fined in the process ! ) and now they want to reduce it to 1.5 hours how can you use anything other than Aldi and say one more very small shop in that time ?

Guess I'll be on the council web site objecting to it this evening. Coupon Mad, appreciate you have other things to worry about at the moment but FYI !

kirkbyinfurnesslad_2

Yuo hovite pls do object:)

Coupon-mad

Hovite wrote: »

OK I'm banned from Aldi's facebook page but it didn't stop me spotting their request for a change of planning permission at their Portslade store today. Initially they were granted permission for the store just as long as there was 3 hours free parking for ALL local shoppers. Then at a later date they got it reduced to 2 hours ( while getting fined in the process ! ) and now they want to reduce it to 1.5 hours how can you use anything other than Aldi and say one more very small shop in that time ?

Guess I'll be on the council web site objecting to it this evening. Coupon Mad, appreciate you have other things to worry about at the moment but FYI !

Thanks for the Heads up. I will certainly object, can you just add an objection on the website?




Sadly it's a close bereavement I am struggling with right now. :(

Stroma

My sympathies to you Coupon, I had some bad news yesterday myself, my sister's ex husband passed away through cancer, he was only 48 and had been suffering for a while. He was a nice guy despite things not working with my sis.