ASDA parking

[YorkshirePud]

I note that the parking time at ASDA has been reduced from 3 hours to 2½ hours. It's now on the small print notices as you enter the car park, but I've not seen any big notices to warn you as you enter the shop.

 

[photography_bloke]

@littleme mentioned the other week that it had been reduced - at the time the sign still said 3 hours but I did notice the other day it had been changed

Are there still rumours about it becoming pay and display?

 

[staffordjas]

I note that the parking time at ASDA has been reduced from 3 hours to 2½ hours. It's now on the small print notices as you enter the car park, but I've not seen any big notices to warn you as you enter the shop.

Thanks for the warning. Hadn't noticed it changed on the notice as I drove past at the weekend, better be more observant in future!

 

[littleme]

@littleme mentioned the other week that it had been reduced - at the time the sign still said 3 hours but I did notice the other day it had been changed

Are there still rumours about it becoming pay and display?

Great minds think alike... I noticed the other day that the parking time is now 2 & 1/2hrs, but no sign of the pay & display...

 

[captainpish]

@littleme mentioned the other week that it had been reduced - at the time the sign still said 3 hours but I did notice the other day it had been changed

Are there still rumours about it becoming pay and display?

IT needd to be to be honest. Id say the majority of cars parked there at the weekend are owned by people visiting town or the riverside centre and not asda. You only have to be parked near the path to the crossing to see just how many people are returning to their cars from town. There also needs to camera on the mother and baby spots as theyre almost always filled by range rovers and the like with no kids.

 

[staffordjas]

I use Asda for the shopping that I can't get in Home Bargains etc , and do a good stock up whilst there because I've got the car parked in their carpark. But won't be using the shop if I have to pay to park there.

 

[1JKz]

Who can bare to spend more than 7 minutes in Asda, let alone 2 an 'arf hours?

 

[Gramaisc]

Asda are not noted for their care in posting appropriate signage - this disabled parking sign in Cardiff explains the rules in English and Scots Gaelic...

 

[1JKz]

While they're at it, I hope they stop people driving in the wrong way*

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.8...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1smSEL1DsVnHOpBdBCVaP8wA!2e0

*or simply take this sign down.

 

[biccies]

It's a strange one that sign. Technically there's nothing that prohibits cars as black signs are advisory signs for HGVs.

 

[1JKz]

...and the word "only"?

 

[biccies]

"technically"

 

[John Marwood]

Who can bare to spend more than 7 minutes in Asda, let alone 2 an 'arf hours?

Maybe they have a wide and varied range of Halal sex toys?

 

[photography_bloke]

IT needd to be to be honest. Id say the majority of cars parked there at the weekend are owned by people visiting town or the riverside centre and not asda. You only have to be parked near the path to the crossing to see just how many people are returning to their cars from town. There also needs to camera on the mother and baby spots as theyre almost always filled by range rovers and the like with no kids.

I only tend to park on Asda and then head into town if I'm also planning on going into Asda when I come back, otherwise I'll go over to Wilkos or Sainsbury's

It would be annoying if they make it pure pay and display, as I use it quite a bit going into Asda - if they do it like Sainsbury's where you can get your money back in the store I think that's fair enough.

 

[1JKz]

Why they haven't taken Sainsburys lead, is anyone's guess.
I find having change to pay and display at Sainsburys a chore, but I wouldn't shop anywhere else (unless Waitrose came to town!), if I can help it.

i'm verging on middle class don't you know.

 

[Gramaisc]

If you run a car-park with number plate entry/exit recognition, you need no staff. If you need to go round checking the times on paper tickets, you do need staff - and ticket machines. Sainsbury's car-park is Council-owned, I believe, so they don't have that issue to contend with.

 

[proactive]

While they're at it, I hope they stop people driving in the wrong way*

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.8...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1smSEL1DsVnHOpBdBCVaP8wA!2e0

*or simply take this sign down.

Perfectly legitimate for cars to drive down there.

The sign only applies to HGVs and is intended to stop HGVs driving down there unless they are delivering to Asda.

Why HGVs that aren't delivering to Asda would want to go down there is anybody's guess, but there it is.

 

[Gramaisc]

Why HGVs that aren't delivering to Asda would want to go down there is anybody's guess, but there it is.

The purpose of a lot of signs is a mystery - this illuminated sign tells you that you are leaving a weight restriction zone, as if you're going to drive round the corner and start loading up...

 

[1JKz]

Perfectly legitimate for cars to drive down there.

The sign only applies to HGVs and is intended to stop HGVs driving down there unless they are delivering to Asda.

Why HGVs that aren't delivering to Asda would want to go down there is anybody's guess, but there it is.

Superstore deliveries only, means superstore deliveries only, that's what I gathered, therefore if you aren't delivering to said superstore, you can't use the road, and then giving a reason for having a sign above that sign telling you where the superstore parking, actually is!

Ohhhh, unless, the "Superstore" sign is merely pointing out that there are several superstores in that direction?

 

[1JKz]

Is @YorkshirePud still in Asda?