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The Flame Pit / Re: Incorrect signage?
« on: February 04, 2025, 09:04:56 am »
Quote from: mickR on February 03, 2025, 09:33:04 pm
Quote from: unzippy on February 03, 2025, 08:09:39 pm
Quote from: mickR on February 02, 2025, 10:05:57 pm

and 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.  ;D
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'.

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The Flame Pit / Re: Incorrect signage?
« on: February 04, 2025, 09:00:25 am »
Quote from: Southpaw82 on February 03, 2025, 10:12:05 pm
Quote from: unzippy on February 03, 2025, 08:13:48 pm
Quote from: Southpaw82 on February 02, 2025, 10:00:28 pm
Free 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.

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The Flame Pit / Re: Incorrect signage?
« on: February 03, 2025, 08:13:48 pm »
Quote from: Southpaw82 on February 02, 2025, 10:00:28 pm
Free 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?

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The Flame Pit / Re: Incorrect signage?
« on: February 03, 2025, 08:09:39 pm »
Quote from: mickR on February 02, 2025, 10:05:57 pm

and 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.   ;D

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The Flame Pit / Re: Incorrect signage?
« on: February 02, 2025, 09:57:57 pm »
Quote from: mickR on February 02, 2025, 05:46:00 pm

it 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 January 30, 2025, 08:46:15 pm
At 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].

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The Flame Pit / Re: Incorrect signage?
« on: February 02, 2025, 05:02:36 pm »
Quote from: andy_foster on February 01, 2025, 03:02:10 pm
Yes, 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?

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The Flame Pit / Re: Incorrect signage?
« on: January 31, 2025, 10:26:08 pm »
Quote from: andy_foster on January 30, 2025, 07:18:42 pm
I'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?



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The Flame Pit / Re: Incorrect signage?
« on: January 31, 2025, 10:19:51 pm »
Quote from: roythebus on January 30, 2025, 08:46:15 pm
At 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.


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The Flame Pit / Incorrect signage?
« on: January 30, 2025, 03:39:01 pm »
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 receipt


Just be clear - I haven't got a ticket, I'm just offended by the sign!


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