Just wait until this (drive-though Tesco) comes over here and other shops join in - parking problems solved once and for all!
Why would you want to maximise this risk?
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It is quite rare to see a buggy in a supermarket. Those that are there are usually from people who have walked to the supermarket. No-one is going to unpack a buggy from a car boot, use it to get into the supermarket, and the push a buggy AND a trolley around the shop.Like a previous poster said most babies/toddlers would be in a buggy anyway.
It is quite rare to see a buggy in a supermarket. Those that are there are usually from people who have walked to the supermarket. No-one is going to unpack a buggy from a car boot, use it to get into the supermarket, and the push a buggy AND a trolley around the shop.
This is so true! There is no keeping everyone happy - when a parent puts a child into the trolley (one reason could be to make the passage to the car safer for everyone), people complain about child's shoes dirtying a trolley in which they put their food. If a parent parks close to the door, those without children object to the convenience which 'parent and child' spaces are. If a parent uses a regular space further down and bashes bejayzus out of somebody else's door (not intentionally) while trying to secure a child in the carseat, everyone jumps to arms.
No one has yet explained what are parents with small children expected to do in carparks.
And there is a seat in trollies for very small children or babies.
The point that is trying to be made is that you could have to get 2-3 small kids through a busy car-park, even to get to the trolleys. The more car park that these kids have to toddle through, the more dangerous it is.
I did say in an early post that extra wide spaces should be made available in the general area of the car park and beside a trolley bay. Apart from anything else you can't unload your shopping and then leave your kids alone in the car while you return your trolley. But these spaces should not be taking up all of the area near the door when there are other people who also need these spaces. Mothers with kids do not trump everyone else.
I agree.I did say in an early post that extra wide spaces should be made available in the general area of the car park and beside a trolley bay. Apart from anything else you can't unload your shopping and then leave your kids alone in the car while you return your trolley. But these spaces should not be taking up all of the area near the door when there are other people who also need these spaces.
or even fathers with kids.Mothers with kids do not trump everyone else.
Mothers with kids do not trump everyone else.
Neither do people just because they've passed a certain age irrespective of how able they are.
It's just a nice thing the supermarkets/shops have done for a particular group of people in order to ease the burden of getting kids in and out a car and the potential of having kids walking through car parks.
But that's the point, Latrade. They are being nice to one group of people at the expense of another. Why reserve them for anyone (apart from disabled of course) I remember staying with friends in America andthere was a sign beside some spaces near the supermarket door saying something like 'we would respectfully request that these spaces be left available for those who need them'. Obviously some people ignored the sign but most people didn't and there was no resentment about one group of people getting them at the expense of another.
Absolutely not 'at the expense of another'. This is a common tactic used to divide and conquer. P&C facilities are not at the expense of anyone. It is well within the power of any supermarket to provide P&C facilities, and disabled parking facilities, AND facilities for older people if these are required.But that's the point, Latrade. They are being nice to one group of people at the expense of another.
Absolutely not 'at the expense of another'. This is a common tactic used to divide and conquer. P&C facilities are not at the expense of anyone. It is well within the power of any supermarket to provide P&C facilities, and disabled parking facilities, AND facilities for older people if these are required.
It is quite rare to see a buggy in a supermarket. Those that are there are usually from people who have walked to the supermarket. No-one is going to unpack a buggy from a car boot, use it to get into the supermarket, and the push a buggy AND a trolley around the shop.
I wonder if you would feel differently if a toddler (short and swift as they are) slipped away from a parent and you knocked him / her over when reversing out of a parking space.
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Could this not happen in town, leaving mass, in a multi-story, leaving a school or just about anywhere where there is a congragation of people?
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