So, right. Sainsbury’s in Sale has a pay-and-display carpark, because it’s right next to the central shopping area and they got pissed off with people parking in it and buggering off into other shops, thus depriving Actual Sainsburys Customers of valuable parking space and costing them money. Hence, pay and display.
However, Sainsbury’s quite rightly deemed it unfair that their actual real customers should have to pay for parking when they’re already paying well over the odds for their pretentious (but delicious) Taste The Difference Quantum Cheddar anyway. So they offer a refund of your 50p parking cost if you take the ticket into the shop.
I’ll let you think about that for a moment.
Yes, that’s right. You buy your ticket, but you can’t leave it in your car, because in order to get your refund you have to take it into the shop. So you buy your ticket, go into the shop, and get the money back. The whole thing is an exercise in total pointlessness and utter, abject futility.
At morrisons in Ponte you get a receipt from the machine, which you take into the shop and then get your money back.
Obviously cleverer on this side of the pennines!
As far as I remember, as I used to live in Sale and went pretentious shopping at Sainsbury’s quite frequently, the ticket tears in two, thus allowing you to leave one half in your car and take one half into the store… or is it sticky labels now? I don’t know.