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SunshineSally

V3ra - have a word with FV - they are pretty good at sorting out. We had the same issue when purchasing a leather suite from them.

Thank you for the advice, something to bear in mind!
Unfortunately this incident was several years ago now ?

The worst car park near us is at a small shopping centre. No return within a certain number of hours but also you are not allowed to walk out of that shopping area. People have been fined for doing that. Our problem is we take our dog to a pet shop there to be groomed. A full groom can take up to two hours. It means we are stranded there for the whole time. After we have spent more than we meant to in Home Bargains, and had a coffee we usually have to retire to the car to read. Okay if weather not too hot or too cold. The other shops, sofa shop, electrics, Halfords do not interest us.

Also GN puts items on its Facebook.
A few years ago, one poster's family recognised her after seeing her problem on Facebook.
People got a lot more careful after that.

When posting about yourself, friends or family, you should always think about changing one or two details to make it less identifiable.

Yes MN is frequently used by news media, both print and TV.

Absolutely Blossoming a reminder that not only is GN public but “juicy” looking content may well appear in the red tops a day later.

I think StarDreamer was drawing our attention to the fact that the story originated on Mumsnet, hence the thread title.

There are often stories from Mumsnet in the newspapers. I haven’t seen any from Gransnet, but I’m sure it could happen. I think we forget that this site is public.

MSN, like Bing and Yahoo, trawls for online headlines so will have stories from several sources. You could easily find yourself ‘in the news’ nowadays

Some shops here stamp your parking ticket so you get out free if you have bought things from them. Mostly we don’t have to pay anything under 3 hours stay anyway. In the city they charge you a lot which is why most of us shop locally a( and then they wonder why!)

V3ra - have a word with FV - they are pretty good at sorting out. We had the same issue when purchasing a leather suite from them.

Not sure whether the offenders highlighted are
1) The Daily Express
2). MSN
3). MN
4). Tesco
5) The (presumably) private parking firm
Or 6) people who didn’t heed the parking notice. (Or all 6!)
To claim “immunity” because the shopper has spent £250 sounds more than a bit entitled.
What about elderly shoppers who may take a while finding everything but spend an awful lot less?

With customers having less and less money to spend these days, you'd think that large shops like Tesco would be glad that customers are buying so much it's taking them more than 2 hours. Think I'd be boycotting them. never shop in Tesco anyway

We were shopping for wardrobes in Furniture Village, went home to confirm the measurements would suit, went back to the shop to order.

We got fined under a "no return" policy which was in impossibly small print on the car park rules sign which was eight feet in the air.

The car park management company took our first arrival time and second departure time as one visit for the day ?