Parking Fine supermarket overstay

[Uneducated_Rick]

We have a new complex, morrisons underneath with a large car park, entertainment complex on top with 3 restaurants and a cinema on top.
Thought we'd try it, meal and cinema, noted the parking restriction on the ticket machine of a max 3 hours on the ticket.
Had the meal, popped down to the car, bought another ticket, went to the cinema. We were there about 3 1/2 hours in total with a 2 hour ticket then a 3 hour ticket, just to be safe.

Got an £80 parking ticket as they use ANPR and our car didn't leave the car park. If I'd driven out and back in again I'd have been fine.
Apparently it's Morrisons car park and they use an external company to run it, neither companies were interested in resolving, so I took photos of the signs, pointed it it didn't say about leaving, just that you needed a valid ticket and wrote an article for the local paper.
Charge was dropped, signs have now changed and I've not been back to that complex as we have two others with free parking.

3 hours isn;t very long considering you might go for a meal and to the cinema afterwards.

Some cinema screenings are over 3 hours (when including the 30 minute pre-amble) on their own!

 

[Byker28i]

3 hours isn;t very long considering you might go for a meal and to the cinema afterwards.

Some cinema screenings are over 3 hours (when including the 30 minute pre-amble) on their own!

It's what caught me out. Apparently the huge car park is for Morrisons and their suggestion is you're supposed to use another carpark instead for the entertainment complex, which is open late into the evening when Morrisons is shut

 

[keef32]

Just reverse out the carpark.... never see you leaving then

 

[strumstrum]

Just reverse out the carpark.... never see you leaving then

Ha brilliant, that brings back memories of my grandad saying ‘walk in backwards they will think you’re coming out’

 

[keef32]

Ha brilliant, that brings back memories of my grandad saying ‘walk in backwards they will think you’re coming out’

I can say it worked 100% of the time ;-)

 

[onomatopoeia]

Waitrose actively encourage you to have a coffee in the cafe. This added with a shop would almost always take longer than the allotted time.

A trolley load of shopping and a cup of tea would take more than 90 minutes? Would take me about 25. I'd slit my wrists if I had to be in a supermarket for an hour and a half.

 

[TCR4x4]

A trolley load of shopping and a cup of tea would take more than 90 minutes? Would take me about 25. I'd slit my wrists if I had to be in a supermarket for an hour and a half.

Go with my wife... you’ll soon see. She’d spend 25 minutes stood in the shampoo isle deciding which one to buy then put them all back on the shelf and not buy any of them.

 

[Marc]

A trolley load of shopping and a cup of tea would take more than 90 minutes? Would take me about 25. I'd slit my wrists if I had to be in a supermarket for an hour and a half.

Try it in Tesco, would take more than 25 minutes just to get the cup of tea!

 

[cambsno]

A trolley load of shopping and a cup of tea would take more than 90 minutes? Would take me about 25. I'd slit my wrists if I had to be in a supermarket for an hour and a half.

My weekly shop will take at least an hour, although I have a list and plan of what to buy I like to browse most aisles and will see what offers are on and adjust meals accordingly.

 

[OldCarlos]

Would take me about 25. I'd slit my wrists if I had to be in a supermarket for an hour and a half.

I sometimes take/go with the missus shopping.
I just sit in the car listening to the radio, then lift the shopping in the boot when she comes back.
25 mins is just about doable.