The CEO's of supermarkets now have a wake up call

beamerguy

Morrisons fires gun on 'recession' price war: Cost of 400 products slashed by a QUARTER as stores fight to lure families hit by downturn

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-8701421/Morrisons-fires-gun-recession-price-war.html

A senior supermarket source said Britain's largest supermarkets – Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons – were desperate to take the lead after being blindsided by discounters Aldi and Lidl after the last major downturn more than a decade ago.

Don't they understand that far too many customers have been hurt by the Rogue traders, the parking cowboys.
The parking companies sold a pup about "abusers" of car park parks. Of course there are abusers but not enough to warrant a blitz on customers.  Those so called abusers will probably purchase anyway 
With online deliveries and Amazon coming on stream, it's like robbing Peter to pay Paul

If they want to take the lead, get rid of the parking cowboys and let customers decide how long they want to shop for.  They are desperate for "footfall" 

D_P_Dance

Don't they understand that far too many customers have been hurt by the Rogue traders, the parking cowboys.


Obviously not.  The MA of one of my flats spoke highly of CPM

beamerguy

D_P_Dance said:

Don't they understand that far too many customers have been hurt by the Rogue traders, the parking cowboys.


Obviously not.  The MA of one of my flats spoke highly of CPM

The MA probably enjoys back handers

Umkomaas

The PPC network will be rubbing their hands with glee. More punters coming into stores, many blinded by a few bob off a pack of White Lightning and half a dozen Pot Noodles. Lambs to the slaughter. 

D_P_Dance

We now shop almost exclusively at Lidl and Aldi.  Both have unrestricted parking.  Our local ASDA/PE have  ticketed my wife three times this year.  

beamerguy

D_P_Dance said:

We now shop almost exclusively at Lidl and Aldi.  Both have unrestricted parking.  Our local ASDA/PE have  ticketed my wife three times this year.  

Way to go ...... shop until you drop .... SILLY ASDA

Le_Kirk

D_P_Dance said:

We now shop almost exclusively at Lidl and Aldi.  Both have unrestricted parking.  Our local ASDA/PE have  ticketed my wife three times this year.  

You do know that nine times out of ten these tickets are scams and that PE signs leave a lot to be desired!

beamerguy

D_P_Dance said:

  Our local ASDA/PE have  ticketed my wife three times this year.  

Tell me Sir Dance, with the 3 tickets for your wife, did you google it or did you know of a site that could help you kill off the scam PE tickets

Scrapit

Umkomaas said:

The PPC network will be rubbing their hands with glee. More punters coming into stores, many blinded by a few bob off a pack of White Lightning and half a dozen Pot Noodles. Lambs to the slaughter. 

Unless, like the vast majority of people, the parking contractor has very little or absolutely no involvement with the average punters shop and therefore doesn't feature on the radar at all.

NeilCr

Umkomaas said:

The PPC network will be rubbing their hands with glee. More punters coming into stores, many blinded by a few bob off a pack of White Lightning and half a dozen Pot Noodles. Lambs to the slaughter. 

Probably not - as, as BeamerGuy suggests, the number of home deliveries has increased dramatically because of Covid (nothing to do with anything else) and is likely to stay that way. Others are using Click and Collect

My friendly Waitrose delivery guys tell me that the local branch where they work have doubled the number of vans they have, recruited more drivers and have increased the number of slots available (and are aiming for more).  A cursory Google search shows that Tesco and Asda are doing the same thing. Walking past Waitrose on Saturday morning the car park was half as full as normal

People have got used to the ease of home shopping (I can, thoroughly, recommend Mr Amazon for wine!) and this, coupled, with the ongoing concern around the pandemic means that the way many of us shop has probably changed for ever

Good news for you guys of course as less targets for the PPCs. This is going to make much more difference than a headline about price increases, 

MothballsWallet

D_P_Dance said:

We now shop almost exclusively at Lidl and Aldi.  Both have unrestricted parking.  Our local ASDA/PE have  ticketed my wife three times this year.  

Our local Lidl's car park is infested with a PPC and has a signposted 90 minute time limit on parking - at least, it did the last time I was there.