Another Car Park issue!
I seem to be inundated with car parking issues at the moment. It’s not Christchurch Way car park problems this time - it’s Somerfield’s car park off Crown Street that’s the cause of a complaint.
For several years Somerfield’s car park has been a pay and display park with the store redeeming the car parking charge against purchases in the store. That system seemed to work well, so it was interesting to note that a couple of months ago the ticket machines were covered up and everyone was allowed two hours free parking. Anyone overstaying was issued with a fixed penalty ticket (£70 or £50 if paid within 14 days) by the store’s private car park attendant. No real problem - except a couple of weeks ago they changed the 2 hour period to one hour . And quite a few people who’d got used to two hours free parking didn’t read the amended notices and were issued with tickets.
By now most drivers have accepted the one hour limit - so what is the store about to do? Yep! They’re changing it back to two hours within the next day or so! Now even I’m getting confused! The moral of the story? Read the notice carefully next time you park at Somerfield.
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