Heads up for Morrisons shoppers - new parking arrangements

MothballsWallet

Le_Kirk said:

Snakes_Belly said:

Morrisons are being taken over by a US company. Another British firm sold.

Perhaps they will change the car park to a parking lot!

But they'll be too late to pave over paradise though, that's already been done for them!

D_P_Dance

Abd no prrotection in rain.

lisyloo

Coupon-mad said:

This is better than a £100 PCN for staying over 3 hours and this is what more retailers should do IMHO, including operating as a pay and display car park at night when the store is closed  (why not, especially in cities where people would use it?).

As for the 3 hours, don't assume the driver is only using Morrisons.  There are plenty of store car parks that only got Planning Permission in the basis that people can leave the site and use it to visit local shops.  Therefore they may well want to stay longer and have lunch locally.

Of course people will park there and go elsewhere.
it also seems obvious that they are trying to prevent people doing this for free.
are the parking charges hideously expensive?
if not why not just pay for parking or choose to go somewhere else?

lisyloo

patient_dream said:

Far too much competition around for Morrisons to dictate to customers how long they should stay to spend their money ?

The more products they put in stores like clothes, electricals etc and a cafe, maybe 3 hrs for a family is not enough.

I somehow think this is not Morrisons but the parking company with a new wheeze to catch people out ??

All supermarkets were sucked in with the word "ABUSE"   ..... maybe the few who will pop in to buy something anyway.

Nope still don’t believe a family can spend more than 3 hours even if having lunch.
I don’t think any have changing rooms, so shopping for clothes doesn’t include trying things on.
If you want to make it a day trip then why the objection to paying for parking?

Brie

The Tesco not far from work did this a few years back.  The reason being that the local residents had become nasty about colleagues parking their cars on the leafy broad avenues where the local residents lived in their incredibly large houses.  As the parking at work itself was very limited people began to park at Tescos and then go do their 8 hours in the office.  Net result was that Tesco wasn't able to provide sufficient parking for customers which affected their business.

Professor_Popkiss

My local Morrisons has also sprouted these signs - until (very) recently Morrisons and "yourparkingspace" appear to have shared a director ... however it would appear that Morrisons and their chosen PPC appear to have forgotten to apply for advertising consent for these signs ..... certainly at my local store ..... The signs are of course a good few feet above the ground making them unreadable and as yet, no sign at the entrance.