To charge a well known supermarket for...

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leaving the abandoned trolley that appears to be "parked" in our garden (for over two weeks now, despite emails and calls to the store and to HQ, and promises that it will be collected)? Especially after they charged me £90 for overstaying their three hour car parking limit???

I was thinking of a daily charge? What d'ya reckon? Wwyd???

£15 a day. From the day you first notified them? I think so! Email and invoice to head office! Let us know how it goes!

You could do it. There was one chap I heard of who charged telesales people an hourly rate for taking up his time.
They paid for it too.
You could invoice them daily for it. After a couple of days, if nothing has worked, then go to the local paper, they love that kind of thing.

You shouldn't have paid the parking ticket. Look up your rights on Money Saving Expert. If it's from a private company it's basically just an invoice.

do it, just make sure you charge them more than the £90 they charged you and definitely tell the paper and let us all know what happens.

You are within your rights to invoice them in the same way they invoiced you, however neither you nor the supermaket are under any obligation to pay these sorts of speculative invoices, so it's a bit unfortunate that from the sounds of it you paid their £90 "charge".

The Parking Charge Notice is legally valid. You can contest it through POPLA. There's no such process for trollies. After a reasonable period of inaction , you can possibly a) invoice them for the costs of returning the item (eg courier) or b) dispose of the trolley, and invoice costs.

There is a legal obligation on shops to recover trollies from public land. Councils typically recover and charge back these costs to shops at a punitive level.

Bizarrely, I've worked in both trolley recovery and parking. What an exciting life I have led.

Just chuck the effing trolley onto the pavement. And stop paying supermarket parking fines. They are NOT legally binding.