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Has the proliferation of pay by phone car parks changed your shopping habits?

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  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 661
    No, just use the park and ride. 
    East Anglia
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    We don't have anything like that in this part of London or any of the towns we used to visit in Kent.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    No
    The only time I've come across a car park like that was when I was staying with my sister, and she did the necessary on her phone. I think she'd already got the app set up.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    No
    Never met one - yet.   Would drive off if I did.

    Here they do civilised things like one hour's free parking or free over thelunch period form 12 till 2 which encourgaes shoppers and diners to come and do their bit for the local economy.   You enter your car reg and, if necessary, use your debit card to pay.

    Bit of a shock in May when in a bit of Nantes we didn't know (looking for an African wax fabric shop) and they had coin meters!!

    Other than that shopping centres and SMs have free parking and there is park and ride in towns like Nantes and public transport is free on Saturdays so people are encouraged to go out and socialise, go to the cinema or theatre, sight-seeing and shopping.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I haven’t been to our biggest town which is about 20 miles or more away since 2003.
    last time I went to the hospital there ,  there was a machine in the foyer where you put the disc in and it tells you what you owe,  then just show it the card.  That was 9 years ago so I don’t know what goes on there.  
    @Asarum is the park & ride free parking? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    No
    I shop on line.
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I had to get the app., because in town there are no other spaces close enough to my walking distance. Moira sorted it out, but I can use it easily enough.
    Irrelevant at the moment, because I can't drive.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    One, I can live with but a different app for a different car park .No
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    All the carparks in the Borders towns and villages are free parking .... to encourage visitors to stay and spend.
    When we go to Edinburgh we use the Park & Ride which is also free and we can plug in the car if we want to. The buses into the centre are frequent and also free as we've got bus passes now were are 60.

    I don't have a smartphone.

    Bee x
    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    No
    Free at the supermarkets, (and more importantly GCs and nurseries) hate shopping so most things on line, nothing's changed


    In the sticks near Peterborough
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