Anyone else hate those online pickup parking spots at stores?

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JimKiler

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My theory is if you are only going to the customer service counter to pick up an order you can walk more than the rest of us who want to peruse the store. Why do online pickup customers get preferential parking? If I see them and my kids are not with i will park in them when i do not use online pickup. #screwtheman!
 
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JimKiler said:
My theory is if you are only going to the customer service counter to pick up an order you can walk more than the rest of us
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Uh, wut? OP doesn't understand online orders/pick-up? Or is this not wal mart/kroger-esk? Maybe OP is a Kanukistanian.:p


My 1st thought was, "A bunch of fat assed, lazy Americans..." Then my Mom moved back here. I'm not hauling her 78 y.o. ass around wal mart on her walker or having her drive a scooter...:eek:. I've got better things to do with 3 hours+. Here, wal mart pick-up parking is on the side of the building, out of the way. I go by her house on Tues, 20 minutes to order, pick-up on Wed, 5 minutes in the wal mart lot while they bring them out. Done.

Kroger, also, has them off to the side. My son worked the click list for a year.

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If I see them and my kids are not with i will park in them when i do not use online pickup
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So OP hates handicapped people and hides the fact from his kids?
 
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This has nothing to do with handicap people, i am talking about parking spots in the parking lot designated only for online order pickup.

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Yeah the ones I see at Wegman's bother me. 8 spots marked for pick up but typically one is being used.
 
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JimKiler said:
This has nothing to do with handicap people, i am talking about parking spots in the parking lot designated only for online order pickup.

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I know what you're talking about...and I use them as handicapped parking spots when needed.
 
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JimKiler said:
This has nothing to do with handicap people, i am talking about parking spots in the parking lot designated only for online order pickup.

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I've never seen one like that. It doesn't look like it's particularly close to the store, and I'm not a lazy fat-assed American so I don't hate it, I'll just park further away and walk.
But I also just look for an open spot basically anywhere rather than waste time and gas prowling the rows in the lot for the white whale of a spot that's sure to open up and save me an extra forty feet of walking...

Edit: they get preferential parking because in theory they will be in and out of the store faster.
 
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Our local best buy has had them for years, my preferred parking area as it's always empty and close to the doors
 
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You know, apologies to the OP.:oops: Home depot has preferred contractor spots in the lot. That's in addition to the 8 or so pull up to the door spots. I'll park in the contractor spots every time.

My bad. Maybe I secretly hate handicapped contractors....
 
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highland145 said:
You know, apologies to the OP.:oops: Home depot has preferred contractor spots in the lot. That's in addition to the 8 or so pull up to the door spots. I'll park in the contractor spots every time.

My bad. Maybe I secretly hate handicapped contractors....
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Plus, they're usually covered parking...
 
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I harbor a deep resentment for handicapped people for stealing ALL the best parking spots nearest the front door. Oh, AND now "wounded veterans."

I've yet to see this new signage abomination.
 
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We have a strange strip mall in Long Beach California. They marked all the close spots Clean Energy CARPOOL parking. This is out front of a PetCo and a WholeFoods. First what do they mean? A clean energy vehicle OR a carpool vehicle or do you have to be in a carpool vehicle that has clean energy? Just how many of these types of cars are they expecting since every single space in front of the store is marked that way. WHO THE HELL takes a carpool to a grocery store or a pet store anyways??? Plus the clean energy vehicles should park in the back of the lot since they don't pollute. If I have to drive my gas guzzler more around the lot to find a spot don't I cause more pollution? They should give me the spot up front so I pollute less right? In any case I ignore the suggestion and park in those spots anyways.
 
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nakedfrog said:
I've never seen one like that. It doesn't look like it's particularly close to the store, and I'm not a lazy fat-assed American so I don't hate it, I'll just park further away and walk.
But I also just look for an open spot basically anywhere rather than waste time and gas prowling the rows in the lot for the white whale of a spot that's sure to open up and save me an extra forty feet of walking...

Edit: they get preferential parking because in theory they will be in and out of the store faster.
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I agree in that I am a find a spot and park, i hate driving around the lot. But sometimes due to other parked cars i see an open spot only to notice the sign at the last minute. I am uppity because a person who is running in and out gets better treatment than those of us who walk through the store and will probably spend more on impulse purchases.

I will add i do not park in them if they bring it out to the car like Target does or if it is pregnant women or purple heart parking.

These signs are on the level of drive thru fast food. You will always getting faster service in the drive thru than going in the lobby. One time in a Culvers in North Minnesota i waited an hour in the lobby. While in said lobby i could count all the drive through people getting their food so much quicker.
 
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My local HEB has about 10 premium spaces devoted to grocery pick-up. Pisses me off because the loaders bring the groceries out to the cars - the customer doesn't ever have to go inside. So it's no additional inconvenience for the shopper if the spaces were on the side of the lot or the back - only for the employee.
 
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I don't mind if it's somewhere between 1-3 spaces. If it's like.... 8 spaces that are always empty then that would be annoying.

Grocery store I go to now has online ordering where they drop the stuff off in your car, so it has ~6 parking spots for people that order online and they deliver groceries to the trunk.
 
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robphelan said:
My local HEB has about 10 premium spaces devoted to grocery pick-up. Pisses me off because the loaders bring the groceries out to the cars - the customer doesn't ever have to go inside. So it's no additional inconvenience for the shopper if the spaces were on the side of the lot or the back - only for the employee.
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Then try doing it :p

I detest having to go to grocery stores with the number of bumbling morons that can't even have the simple intellect to understand there are other people waiting on your ass and that you shouldn't be in the center of the aisle because *gasp* there are other people in this world.
 
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