To think this is pointless (Primark tills)

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I came across this on facebook and although its a good idea in theory I cant help but think its abit pointless, A till specifically for disabled customers. Ive never seen any in my local stores so dont know how many Primarks have it.
But apparently you can also use it if you are pregnant or have a double buggy 🙄 Surely the queues will be just as long then? and surely its a choice to buy a pram so wide it doesnt fit at the other tills?!

go on use it with buggys and when you just feel like. Primark will realise and close it......great.
or ask Primark to make the tills in the childrens part more accessible.

You sound like a bitter person.

samcro a more usual business response to realising that something is popular and well used is to increase the supply of it, not shut it down. Increasing footfall and sales is going to be something that a shop is going to be working towards.

I am bitter if that's addressed to me.
I didn't want to be disabled, it's not a choice, it just is.
Life would be a hell of a lot easier if parents nowadays showed the same consideration and common decency that those of us who had small children when I did back then. Society in general was more considerate, actually. Now its all me first and babies being the centre of the universe and fuck everyone else.

@Drogosnextwife imagine that for the rest of your life, not just a couple of years. That's life as a wheelchair user.

Have you tried to get a double buggy, wheelchair or mobility scooter down the queue line? No from your post.

I am disabled and use it all the time, there is never anyone ahead of me or behind and I never have to queue and I don't block the queue line or get in anyone's way.

It's a brilliant idea.

Its funny but people with double buggies tend to manage fine in other shops since its only primark that seems to offer this. How do you manage everywhere else?

Actually I didn't manage just fine with the double buggy. There were loads of places I simply couldn't get into, or move around in once I was there.

Well that was your choice AlpacaLypse.

or ask Primark to make the tills in the childrens part more accessible.

Why would this help? Because only people with children ever shop in the children's department?

Well that was your choice AlpacaLypse

What was her choice? To not be able to access shops? For her ovaries to pop out 2 eggs when she had every right to only expect one? To not leave one infant home alone when she needed to pop out?

FWIW I can’t fit my tandem double in primary queues either, it’s too long to turn it round the right corners.

To pick a pram that makes life difficult. There are so so many options out there. Shouldnt get special treatmeant because you want a fancy pram like a bugabo or whatever.

You really are clueless about double buggies!

Yet ive had one? Erm ok then. its the side by sides that then to have the problems. I just dont get wanting special treatment because of your own choices to make your life difficult!

@whatsthepointthen

What is it your finding so hard to understand here? If you explain why you can't understand this, then we can help you.

This isn't about the rights of the disabled. It's nothing to do with reasonable adjustments or legal requirements for accessibility.

It is purely about sales. If people find it difficult to shop with pushchairs or wheelchairs then they won't shop in that particular place. But if a shop provides a till with a large queue area, and a large space between it and the other tills, and have it outside of the normal queue so you don't block the whole till line then suddenly, they increase their customer base. People on wheelchairs and people with larger buggies will go and spend their money in that shop because the experience is easier.

That's all this is. Increasing sales by making the shopping experience easier for all their customers who have a struggle, wether that is caused by a disability or by a pram. It's nothing to do with disabled rights.

And before you start your nonsense of "but it's your choice to have a double buggy so just don't go shopping If it's hard"... then the shops lose business. They don't want to lose business, hence making space to accommodate those with large buggies and wheelchair users.

And if it comes down to an argument of "it was your choice", well, I was in a wheelchair for a while after I had an accident whilst sky diving. It was my choice to skydive and put myself at risk. It was entirely avoidable if I hadn't participated in that sport. Would I have been less deserving of a space at that till than a wheelchair user in a chair through no fault of their own?

It's not about being nice to disabled people. It's about increasing sales by improving the experience for everyone who has trouble manouvering through the tensa barriers and shelves marking out the queue.

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But people who have that problem for the rest of their lives can use the facility anyway, its there for them and no one is arguing that. Plus I won't just be using a buggy for a few years.

*whether

I just dont get wanting special treatment because of your own choices to make your life difficult!

So you think entitled double buggy owners have demanded that primark to implement this policy? Or maybe it’s just a decision primark have made themselves?!

whatsthepointthen

*i am a wheelchair user. I absolutely support accessible resources being used by parents with small children.

People seem to change their tune when it comes to buses.*

That is a really fucking nasty response, are you being deliberately cunty?

Your obviously just after a bash women and disabled thread.

Either you can't tell the difference between waiting for a couple of minutes in a queue to not being able to get on a bus and being forced to wait however long outside for another or you do know but want to upset others.

OP or anyone else - can you actually link to something that says it's for pregnant women and pushchairs?

I don't actually think it is - so this seems either a bit of of a goady froth whipping thread or a complete waste of time!

Both facing parent since thats the excuse
most people have come up with. And as narrow as a single. Not much longer than a standard single either. And thats just one of many examples. Its a choice.

Join the group, its literally got hundreds of people saying they used it whilst pregnant or with a double buggy.

Plenty do argue with it! Or did I imagine having to sit at bus stops whilst numerous buses went by, having to go home from an evening out because the blue badge bays were full (because people think disabled people don't go out at night and the parking wardens certainly don't). Or being sat outside more than one loo because a parent took their pram in (not a shared use loo, there was a separate parent and baby room with a loo in it). Or being sat in the corridor on a train because an (empty) travel system was in the wheelchair space.

Yep.... must have imagined those....
There's more but I'd be here all night.

A very good idea in my opinion.

And for those saying why would a child want to stare at the back of a seat does your children never travel in cars or on buses then? because chances are they will be staring at the back of someones seat.

The comments have been turned off now anyway as it got abit out of hand.

of your own choices to make your life difficult!

What to have children? I wonder what would happen if everyone stopped. How about everyone doesn't grudge things that make someone's life a little easier? Some women (and men) love to see another person struggle along because they had to when they had kids amd didnt complain so just suck it up. Lovely.
Perhaps Primark saw me leave the other week because I wasn't attempting their huge winding queue with a double buggy and another child in toe. They lost about £50, wonder how often that happens. Maybe that's the reason for them offering to let prams and pregnant woman use the accessible tills.