Petrol pump & full grocery shop

Also I thought you shouldnt move your car before you've paid for fuel, which adds another problem

The bottom line is these places are extremely badly designed, there isnt enough room or space to get by or pass cars, there arent enough actual parking spaces yet there are lots and lots of things to buy which take a while like hot food or hot drinks etc etc.

Blame the layout and the way the shop is run, not the customer. And just be patient

Where we live the esso with tesco is the only local shop open on a Sunday. They have designated 4 pumps as only pay at pump, but that still doesn't stop someone paying at pump, then leaving their car at the pump and going to the shop.
Some people are just thick and ignorant

People at my local petrol station park by a pump to go in and shop when they're not even buying petrol. There are actual parking bays for them to use instead but they always leave those empty and park at the pumps. Just why??

@NamelessNancy thank you - I got the feeling plenty of others would be more than happy to build up a queue

@Poonu utterly shocked at this!! there is very little in my tesco petrol station to buy, just the usual papers, juices, sandwiches and sweets. why arent they told to pay for the fuel first and move their cars??? can believe that they dont know they are holding up all the other customers in the queue! I would be livid and start shouting the odds inside the garage shop!!

We have a smaller supermarket at our local garage. Ok it's not a big supermarket but it's big enough to do a weekly shop at and it is all one store so you pay for petrol at the same counter. Luckily the pumps are designed in such a way that 2 or 3 people doing it at once aren't going to cause queues.

I had exactly this yesterday. I needed to pick up a bag of shopping and fill the car. It was really busy with a queue for fuel. Filled up, nipped in to pay and went back to move the car so the next person could refuel whilst I did my shopping. I can't understand the mindset of someone who'd be happy to inconvenience others by spending more than a minute or two picking up stuff in store.

We have a SPAR attached to our petrol station where you can get takeaway coffee and hot food - the queues can be ridiculous sometimes and cause huge tailbacks as the cars end up queuing on the main road to get in.

Whenever I need to do a bit of shopping, I move the car into a parking bay and then go in to pay.

I had to use one once which had a Subway inside. The queues took ages as people left the car at the pump.

Its not as bad as our local one if you happen to want to refill at the same time as Amazon (seriously... its a queue of 30 Amazon vans, all of which have to use the pumps on the same side...)

The Tesco at the petrol station I use is big enough to easily get enough shopping for several days.. i pay for my petrol at the pump and if I need things from the shop, I move my car to one of the parking spaces before I go in. If I need shopping and the pay at pump facility isn’t working, which happens from time to time, then I move my car before going into the shop. I think it’s incredibly rude to block a petrol pump for ages unnecessarily.

I’ve seen people pay at the pump then go into the shop and come out with a bag without moving their car!

I was waiting behind someone filling up a few weeks ago (extremely busy petrol station) and after he filled up, he got back in the car and parked in one of the bays so me and all the other drivers could start pumping while he went to pay. I have to admit I've never even thought of that! I assumed some sort of alarm would go off or my licence plate would immediately be sent to the police if I turned the car on before paying.

If it was busy I wouldn't. If there were loads of pumps available then I'd get my shopping. I've never bought more than one bag of stuff in a mini supermarket though.

There’s a pretty decent sized Tesco next to the pumps in a small town near me. Could totally do a full shop there. The only other option is the co-op which isn’t much bigger or travel to next town.

I wouldn’t park at the pump though if doing a proper shop I’d shift the car first. 😇

@Crikeyalmighty exactly. I don’t think anyone would really object to grabbing a loaf on the way to the till, but dithering over the next few days breakfast, lunch and dinner is an entirely different (and IMO uttterly rude and unacceptable!) thing!

Ah this was my post on the other thread - if I can just state there was no queue in the shop to pay and there were plenty of separate parking places away from pumps. The fact was the woman wafted around taking 10 to 15 mins getting other bits oblivious to the fact there were now huge queues for the pumps.

Drives me mad, for the record :-)

I had this a while ago. But worse.

my punp was empty and no fuel.The guy in front driving was sat there watching something on his phone. His wife went in to pay and shop. I waited 10 minutes before I went and tapped on his window and asked him to move and wait in the bays over. He looked absolutely shocked and suggested he wasn't allowed to do that as they had to pay petrol first.

I had a huge queue behind me. A huge fuel truck the other side who was refilling pumps and he's sat there watching some crap. Most put out I tapped on his window.

I said pay at the pump. Or get out, pay for your fuel. Then move and shop.

I think I embarrassed him and he finally moved forward. Mrs came out with quite a few bags!

There’s a Tesco Express with a petrol station near me. I’ve seen people leave their car at the pump, going to pay and coming out with a couple of bags of shopping.

The scenario doesn't make sense. The shops that include the counter where you pay for petrol are not full supermarkets and it isn't possible to do a "full shop" in there. It's annoying if someone chooses to faff about picking up a few groceries while leaving their car hehind but not entirely unreasonable.

If they are leaving it there, walking across the car park to the actual supermarket to do a "full shop" and coming back 50 minutes later that is obviously unreasonable and I suspect has never happened.