When we finally got home from our extended trip we had to wade through a mountain of post, bills, circulars, and threats. But one letter stood out.

A FINE of £90 for parking for 43 minutes in a LIDL car park in Whitney ( Cameron Country). I blew my top as we had never encountered this before

As most of you know, we are strong supporters of Lidl and we use their stores regularly both when at home or abroad. This year alone we have visited a Lidl store in 10 of the 12 countries and in total I wouldn't mind betting we've been to more Lidl stores all over Europe that many of thier top management.

Needless to say I wrote to Lidl and the Parking Company after scanning Google pics of the car park and our bill for that day amounting to £79. I'm afraid my tone was a bit blunt and I pointed out the fact that we had never before visited a Lidl where there was a set of parking rules. ie. 10 minutes free before you have to fiddle with some machine instore, scanning your bill and entering your reg number before leaving.

Lidl responded that they couldn't help but the Parking Company would consider my APPEAL (it was more of a threat than an appeal

Today they saw sense and let me off but I write this to tip off anybody else who uses this store or any others regularly, to keep an eye open for the small signs dotted around and pay no attention to the For Lidl Customers Only Sign.

As a footnote, it was lucky that it happened on the way back coz if we were heading out of the country we probably would have had several threatening letters and a bill for over £1000.

Randa

I really hate it when companies take the piss like this and then blame everything on their parking enforcement company.

Bastards!

Glad they saw sense, Roger, and thanks for the heads up. It's the first time I've heard of charges at Lidl.