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Quote from: mickR on 03 Feb, 2025 21:33Quote from: unzippy on 03 Feb, 2025 20:09Quote from: mickR on 02 Feb, 2025 22:05and what did the store manager say when you queried it with them?you did didn't you?Dunno if it was the store manager but the person I asked said that they had a 10m in grace period before being charged.  I replied that the sign said there was a 90 minute period before being charged.  NO. ... about your issue with having to provide a receipt to enter your VRM.Shrugged and looked blank.  So I went and bought a pint of milk so that I could get my 'Free Parking'.

Quote from: Southpaw82 on 03 Feb, 2025 22:12Quote from: unzippy on 03 Feb, 2025 20:13Quote from: Southpaw82 on 02 Feb, 2025 22:00Free parking (in that there is no charge for parking) provided certain other conditions are met isn’t necessarily incorrect. The sign has to be read in context.And when one of those 'conditions' involves spending money, so that you to be allowed to park without incurring a charge?Have you been charged for the parking?What's that got to do with the price of fish?I'm asking about the validity of the lack of info in the signage, not help with a ticket.

Quote from: Southpaw82 on 02 Feb, 2025 22:00Free parking (in that there is no charge for parking) provided certain other conditions are met isn’t necessarily incorrect. The sign has to be read in context.And when one of those 'conditions' involves spending money, so that you to be allowed to park without incurring a charge?

Quote from: mickR on 02 Feb, 2025 22:05and what did the store manager say when you queried it with them?you did didn't you?Dunno if it was the store manager but the person I asked said that they had a 10m in grace period before being charged.  I replied that the sign said there was a 90 minute period before being charged.   

Quote from: mickR on 02 Feb, 2025 17:46it says you must enter your reg at the terminal to receive 90mins of free parking"The point I'm trying to make is that it's not free if you need to purchase something in order to get a receipt so that you can enter your reg.This is free parking as it doesn't require money to be spent:Quote from: roythebus on 30 Jan, 2025 20:46At my local Lidl in Ashford (Kent, for the sake of clarity, the other Ashford is in surrey), a customer can either use a scanned receipt and enter the VRM or just enter the VRM[/i].

Quote from: andy_foster on 01 Feb, 2025 15:02Yes, I missed those words, but the point remains. The sign shown does not "state 'Free Parking'". It states, amongst other things, that customers must enter their reg number to receive free parking. "Free Parking" with capitalised initial letters would tend to emphasise that parking was offered free of charge or condition. Particularly if it was a stand-alone statement.Really?"Free Parking" means you can park without coughing up any money, whereas "free parking" you might have to pay for it?

Quote from: andy_foster on 30 Jan, 2025 19:18I'm offended by people who start random threads to express their offence at signage stating "Free Parking" and then post an image of the offending sign which does not contain those words.Does this help?

Quote from: roythebus on 30 Jan, 2025 20:46At my local Lidl in Ashford (Kent, for the sake of clarity, the other Ashford is in surrey), a customer can either use a scanned receipt and enter the VRM or just enter the VRM. That's my point.  I guess I have no issue with them having the system (well I do actually - technically speaking the ANPR cameras are clocking the cars in and out, they know perfectly well who overstayed the 'Free Parking' time limit.  There's absolutely no need to be entering reg numbers) it's the requirement to spend money in order to enter your reg that gets up my nose.According the staff member I spoke to about it there's a 10 min grace period, also not mentioned in the signage.  However that wasn't useful in this instance as that's not long enough for my 74 year old Dad to enter the store and check out the middle aisle delights.

Hello.Is there any mileage when signage is incorrect?the Lidl carpark signage states 'Free Parking' and to get that you must enter your registration in store.In order to enter your reg you need to scan your receipt first.  In order to get a receipt you need to buy something.If you need to spend money, how can it be free parking?For comparison the local ALdi has the same system, minus the need for the receiptJust be clear - I haven't got a ticket, I'm just offended by the sign!