Supermarket Parking

[Mags22]

What is the answer?o,just saw yet another car reversed into. If you drive straight in its a bummer to get out, if you carefully reverse in you then have to try to squeeze a trolley through to fill the boot,or trot back and forward from the front - any good ideas?

[jno]

well, I trot back and forth from the front whenever I can reverse in, it's not really a big deal. It's a nuisance, though - I once had to reverse out between two white vans totally blocking my visibility and sure enough I got hit. I think herringbone parking would be easier all round.

[gingejbee]

Since my car is almost new, I park as far away from anyone else as possible...as far from the shop entrance as I can!

[factor-fiction]

Always drive in forwards and park behind someone so you can access your boot. I've never reversed into a space in a car park

[EcclesCake]

Not sure I understand why it is a 'bummer' to reverse out of a space. To my mind if you are doing a big shop and want to put it in your boot then driving into the space is the obvious solution.

I have never witnessed an accident in a car park.

I have seen some spectacularly appalling parking though and one particular supermarket I use would do well to consider herringbone parking as a right angle is clearly too challenging for many of its customers.

[jno]

one reason for the difficulty of right-angle-turns may be that the lanes aren't quite wide enough, Eccles?

[EcclesCake]

Hence me suggesting they consider a herringbone style JNO.

[joeluke]

Park halfway between 2 spaces so no one can park behind you? (I've seen people do it - and also seen them park across 2 spaces so no one can park alongside them)

[factor-fiction]

I always park as far away from other cars as possible- I'm happy to park a long way from the store entrance. I think spaces are often too narrow.

[Ratty2E]

From the state of the parking I've seen in the local shopping centre car park I think some people are trying to introduce herringbone style by stealth. Even in the wider disabled spaces they still don't seem to be able to manage to park straight, who knew you could get a blue badge for having a parking disability.

[Maydup]

I park a couple of extra rows away from the crowded areas where there's much more space and given the chance, I'll roll forward into the empty space in front of me so that nobody uses it. I load into the boot from the back of my space but no need to reverse out as there is no-one in front.

[boxtops]

I always drive in forward but you have to have eyes in the back of your head - someone tried to reverse out opposite me as I was reversing today - and why people with trolleys think it's OK to march behind a reversing vehicle is beyond my understanding....

[RATTER15]

Nearly all the supermarkets we go to you can access front and back of car, no problem, I thought that was the norm?

[Sam1960]

I always park as far away from the entrance to the shops as I can (to try and avoid door dents ) etc.... Could park in an empty car park, and I can guarantee somebody will park next to me........ Think it's called "Sods Law"

[spacechimp]

I never drive to the supermarket :p

[mikey4444]

I always park in the farthest corner of any supermarket carpark. Its not the daft drivers that cause the problem, its the daft people with trolleys that cause scratches. Park defensively !

[ummmm]

I park far away as well.