Derek Geldard wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:19:21 +0100, Donwill
wrote:


Unless that Lidls car park is a destination in its own right and
people go there for the experience - though I can't imagine why.


At the moment people know that they cannot park for more than two
hours otherwise they will be penalised quite fairly in my opinion.

Charging £90 for parking 3 minutes over in a "Free" car park cannot by
any stretch of their imagination be described as fair.

Even if a claim against the motorist was to succeed the car park
operator can only claim for their losses (Or the actual cost to them).

If they say the car park is free then out of their own mouths they
have established the cost basis of operating the parking space. In
this respect t is immaterial where you go once you have left the car.

If Lidl want to reserve spaces for/give precedence to their own
customers whilst in the store they can do so 1000 ways without trying
to take £90.00 off of ordinary shoppers.

In fact one wonders what the magical attraction of the £90.00 charge
is. - Oh yes I forgot, you can spend it . :-))

If they
reduced it to one hour then in theory it should have twice the
parking spaces available for genuine Lidl shoppers, and discourage
people who take advantage of Lidl car parking spaces by wandering
away to do their shopping at other places.

If you are trying to tell us you would move your car out of a
supermarket car parking space if you had to go to a Bank or the Post
Office, in the full knowledge that there would be no parking there I
don't believe you.

The point that you (and everyone else it would seem) are missing is that it
is not a _public_ car park, it is _Lidl's_ car park. I assume that when Lidl
were spending the time, money and effort to build a car park outside their
shop, they were intending it to be for their own customers. The fact that
they didn't explicitly state this on a sign somewhere, or barrier it off to
all except Lidl customers should not matter. The car park is on their land,
outside their store, so by implication the car park is for their customers.

If your house has a driveway and/or a garage, the builder put it there for
the homeowner to use, not the public.

If you want to go to the bank or the Post Office and do general shopping,
use a public car park.