What Is It With Asda Car Parks?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2384409/Pensioner-65-arrested-death-64-year-old-man-knocked-floor-Asda-car-park-fight.html

Here we have two 60 plus men both who went out on a Saturday shopping trip, only for one to be killed and the other charged with his manslaughter, what a sorry state of affairs.

Can anyone in their wildest dreams understand that the simple fact that the first possession of a disabled parking space could lead to this?

But apparently this type of thing isn't an isolated occurrence.

/// In 2008 a soldier, Fusilier Andy Barlow, 21, was arrested for pushing a man during an argument over a disabled parking bay at Asda in Bolton. ///

/// Mr Barlow, who lost a foot while fighting in Afghanistan, was arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated assault. ///

/// In 2007, a mother was assaulted in front of her two toddlers in an argument over a parking space at Asda. ///

/// Sarah Smith, 36, was slapped across the face when she confronted a man after he parked his car in a parent-and-child space at the supermarket in Fareham, Hampshire. ///

The moral over this is, if anyone cuts you up over a parking space, just let them have it, it's not worth the possible outcome to argue over it.

[gness]

Well I was going in the garden but now I have to wait to find out if Ludwig really completes the effect by breastfeeding the *baby* in Asda.

[ludwig]

I always bottle feed gness. It's not as good for the child, but as it's a plastic one it doesn't matter so much.

[joggerjayne]

Mamya ...

As Baldric says, I was only referring to Brighton as having bandit country.

Our Asda's have chosen, shall we say "curious" locations, where there is a lot of "hanging out". I wonder if it makes for a slightly tense atmosphere? I speak as a town centre dweller, of course.

On the plus side, if I wanted to go to the Asda at the horrid Marina, I could get the mini railway along the beach, which is quite jolly, and then the bus back.

[modeller]

I think location may be a part of the problem but I have found ASDA and the Co-OP have other failings in common.
1.They have the noisiest background music and shop announcements. Our local Co-OP is so noisy I travel 3 miles to Sainsburys to get some peace.
2.Asda and the Co-op are the least efficient when it comes to price changes. When you get home you find they have charged the full price on a reduced item. The reduced price for two is more than two single items. Sometimes the reduced price is higher than the original price.
3. I had a home delivery from ASDA which was 3 hours late , part of the order was missing and there was no paperwork. I complained but it was not rectified and I never got the paperwork.

I've never had these problems from Sainsburys , Tesco or Waitrose .
We have 8 supermarkets in my area so you can guess where I don't go.

At the end of the day it's down to the management at all levels.

[Mamyalynne]

JJ, no worries, maybe just a bit defensive of my own neighbourhood - which is very nice. :-)

[Hopkirk]

AOG, that barrier was probably left permanently raised after this incident

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7200678.stm

[anotheoldgit]

Hopkirk

Thank you for that, that explains it although it was a different type of barrier, perhaps after that unfortunate incident all barriers were removed from ASDA's premises?

[anotheoldgit]

What I can't understand with these disabled parking places is the fact that they are provided because the customers cannot walk the distance from the ordinary parking places.

If that is so, why is there only a very few mobility shopping scooters available in the store and in some cases none, yet those who park in the disabled bays are able to walk around the store for almost one hour doing their shopping?

[viv38]

This is a very tragic tale, two lives ruined because of a parking issue. These men were probably quite decent men under other circumstances.