There are certain grocery chains in Germany now.....which have a 'parking-rule' (roughly 60 minutes of free parking), and once you exceed that....you could get a parking ticket.
Logic to this? Over the years, public parking has become a problem, and most grocery chains will admit that their parking lot is 'limited'. Most try to not to enforce the rule.
So I noticed via a Focus article today....so retired lady had overstayed her 'hour' and got a ticket. The grocery? LIDL Cost? 50 Euro. How much she violated the rule? 106 minutes in the grocery.....meaning 46 minutes over the limit.
Yeah, she's pretty pepped-up over the fine.
The problem here for LIDL....this got into national press coverage, and there's going to be some negative coverage over this.
So when you travel to some German grocery....look for the signs in the parking lot, and if they exist.....you might want to set your timer to only be there 59 minutes or less.
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