Nightjar cpb wrote:

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

The Lidl branch I most use is at Clapham Junction. They have number
recognition cameras, and ask you for your car number at the checkout.
Which then gives you up to 90 minutes free parking...

Why don't they just read the number going in and the number going out,
which is what my local Lidl does?

Because that doesn't stop people parking at lidl while shopping elsewhere?