Fine for parking in supermarket car park

[apricot]

A friend of mine has recently had a 'fixed penalty' notice attached to his windscreen for parking more than 2 hours in Safeway carpark. Should he pay? Will the private company have any way of tracing his name and address?

[Ember]

We had the same problem with a Safeway Supermarket, but we never heard any more. We now shop at Tesco. He was a right jobs worth, we were only just over the limit.

[pamnez]

If you have watched "bailiffs" on BBC 1, you will know that it not always a good thing not to pay a fine. If you don't pay, check before you open your door to anyone. You have been warned!

[darth vader]

check with your local council as to whether they can enforce this law. The reason i say this is that our local tesco's got planning permission for extending their carpark only on the condition that the carparking space could be used by people as a general carpark and not just for tescos shopping. therefore they could not enforce their "2 hours limit" law even if they wanted to. I confronted the manager about this and he agreed they cannot do anything about people who park for more than 2 hours, even if they want to