Aldi Facebook Page Kicking Off after Parking Eye LBAs

ossie48

Im not on facebook but can confirm the following.

I have one of these Aldi PP signed statements (forwarded to Parking prankster) As stated these go against the rules of evidence, you cannot simply sign a statement for someone else unless certain conditions apply, juvenile etc.

In the same statement my local Aldi at Bournemouth are claiming to be the landowners of the land their PE managed car park is on. The council own it according to Land registry (and the council)

So by my reckoning we have attempting to pervert the course of justice, potential perjury (should Rachel Organ stand up in court and repeat whats in the statement) but not least a statement thats invalid for court purposes.

What a bunch of clowns.

pustit

Just seen this on Aldi f/b

Jacques Bernardposted toAldi UK
14 minutes ago near London
Hello my name is Jacques I work for big supermarche in France I come in England to before Christmas for project I look at this page I do not understand. What is it this parking eyes many people talk of this but I do not know what it is
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Umkomaas

pustit wrote: »

Just seen this on Aldi f/b

Jacques Bernardposted toAldi UK
14 minutes ago near London
Hello my name is Jacques I work for big supermarche in France I come in England to before Christmas for project I look at this page I do not understand. What is it this parking eyes many people talk of this but I do not know what it is
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I think he could be one of these terrible people who pee pee Aldi off so much they get banned and Phoenix with a new name.

Why should Aldi have to deal with these people? - this could so easily get out of hand for their FB page.

New recruit for the parking office required! :rotfl:

HO87

ossie48 wrote: »

Im not on facebook but can confirm the following.

I have one of these Aldi PP signed statements (forwarded to Parking prankster) As stated these go against the rules of evidence, you cannot simply sign a statement for someone else unless certain conditions apply, juvenile etc.

In the same statement my local Aldi at Bournemouth are claiming to be the landowners of the land their PE managed car park is on. The council own it according to Land registry (and the council)

So by my reckoning we have attempting to pervert the course of justice, potential perjury (should Rachel Organ stand up in court and repeat whats in the statement) but not least a statement thats invalid for court purposes.

What a bunch of clowns.

Aldi whilst not the owners may, as a consequence of a lease or licence, have proprietary rights (as if they were the landowner) sufficient to satisfy POFA. Regardless of that, might I suggest that you have a look at the planning situation? Planning permission may have stipulated a minimum parking time for the car park and it wouldn't be unknown for Aldi/PE to have breached that condition.

GermanKeeper

And some more posts (to be deleted on facebook?)

OFFICIAL COMPLAINT ABOUT PARKING EYE, AS AGENTS FOR ALDI
I am forced to make an official complaint to you because the actions of your agent, Parking Eye, are upsetting, intimidatory and will drive away genuine Aldi customers in the long run. You can no doubt guess that we have received a letter purporting to mimic a 'parking ticket' from PE - and yet we knew nothing about any issues at the time when we stopped off at Aldi.

We arrived at Aldi Bedmister (Bristol), circled the car park whilst waiting for one of the few parent and child bay spaces to become available, eventually gave up on one of these spaces and settled for a narrow space despite having to get the baby in and out of the car in the rain, manoeuvred the pushchair out of the car and slid the baby out of the incredibly narrow gap the space provided, we did our shopping and then waited for the torrential rain to ease off in order to get the shopping and baby back in the car. It was a Friday morning and there were plenty of regular spaces available so we really didn't cause any losses to you nor PE and, importantly, we saw no signs. I would suggest that they are unclear and/or not prominent enough to communicate any time limit.

It was not a pleasant experience at all because out of the blue we have now been sent a fake parking ticket by your agents for apparently 'overstaying' a hitherto unknown time limit, by what seems to be a matter of 18 minutes. We are now expected to have to explain our actions to a third party private company who we had no dealings with, no contract with, and who are demanding a lot of money from us - in my book that is totally unacceptable.

We are very upset and increasingly angry about this entire episode. My family is horrified that Aldi can allow such a notorious firm to harass customers on your behalf. Because PE sent their letter out unexpectedly, after the event, I have retained my receipt and attached it. We had no idea about any 1.5 hour limit - or indeed any possibility of getting a 'parking ticket' - until as the registered keeper of the car, I was suddenly sent a demand by your agents.

I have researched the matter and intend to escalate my challenge against Parking Eye to the independent stage (Parking on Private Land Appeals). However, I am giving Aldi the chance to quash the fake PCN once and for all because I feel you need to know that you and your agents are alienating genuine customers due to PE's zero-tolerance policy.

Well before renewing your contracts with Parking Eye when the time comes, might I just suggest you take time to read and digest the implications to other Retailers, Supermarkets & customers, and the picture painted of Parking Eye's aggressive business practices, as set out in the full court judgment for 'Parking Eye v Somerfield - Case No: A3/2011/0909'.

Notwithstanding what Parking Eye may well have to say on the matter, no doubt involving spin about their firm 'being members of the BPA Approved Operator Scheme' (in reality, merely trade body 'club membership' which enables them to buy registered keeper data and certainly does not 'regulate' their industry) I would also respectfully suggest that Aldi should research the company you are associating with - in truth, Parking Eye have a terrible online reputation and are now suing customers over minor 'infringements' without referral to their clients, like yourselves, who may still naively believe that their agenda is 'parking management'.

I would also suggest researching the current debacle unfolding over the past 4 months on the Aldi facebook page (many of which I've noted have been deleted), which is currently littered with customer complaints about Parking Eye who are actually suing Supermarket customers for 'transgressions' just like my own situation. Aldi should consider themselves lucky that the most adverse publicity, now that Parking Eye have become so litigious that I believe well over a thousand people have received court papers in 2013, has so far focussed on other companies in the customer service/retail sector. It seems that so many clients, blinded by the idea of 'parking management for free' have fallen for the spiel of a dominant company whose agenda is profit alone. It is not 'parking management' to have ANPR cameras on site and yet no management of spaces, no attendants and no checks made of parent and child bays, for example. It's pure profiteering by your agent, routinely 'farming' car parks with no consideration for individual customer needs and circumstances.

My view is that ostensibly free ANPR-led enforcement of parking spaces by a notorious and litigious third party firm using remote cameras at the entrance and exit, and a few unnoticeable signs, is completely incompatible with the customer service ethic of Aldi.

I would welcome your own view on this harassment and hope you see fit to ensure that PE cancel the 'ticket' forthwith. My research about this matter has revealed that you have cancelled some of these tickets for genuine customers recently which has helped to restore my faith a little, albeit tempered with frustration that Aldi are allowing such an aggressive agent to have free reign to intimidate customers for their own profit, at your (and your customers') own expense.

Yours,

From 24 hours ago -
"So Weber Shandwick will not reply. Despite deleting posts wholesale (despite them not being contrary to the Site Rules) and silently runs behind Mama PE's all powerful skirt?"

And still no active response about the wholesale deletion of posts that broke no Aldi FB site rules but only pointed out the small matter of Aldi/PE ignoring Planning Agreements in various parts of the Country, and losing time and time again at POPLA and in Courts.
What about Aldi/PE issuing 'fines' to Aldi customers and others, in parts of car parks that are not even theirs but public land!

As I said to Weber Shandwick (Aldi's FB front people) in the post they deleted (before the above quoted post) - why not engage in discussion on the topics?

Silence speaks loud!

Umkomaas

Above post, which is considered and so well written, seems to have been deleted.

Still, it's here for posterity .... and re-posting if necessary

Coupon-mad

considered and so well written

Copied from one of my rants to Morrisons I think! :D

Hovite_2

Wow - the CEO of Capita, Paul Pindar has called Parking Eye "crooks" !!!! ..... allegedly !

Coupon-mad

What, where?

Umkomaas

Coupon-mad wrote: »

What, where?

He seems to be posting of Aldi FB now

Who next I wonder? Ann Summers possibly :rotfl:.