To think elderly couple should not have parked in parent and child space?

[Pelly8]

Local supermarket has loads of disabled bays (which are 90% empty whenever i’ve been) but only 5 parent and child bays. Elderly couple (probs in 70s) parked their car in a parent and child bay just as I was packing away my shopping.

I almost pointed out that there was plenty of other places for them to park (including plenty of other non disabled bays close to the entrance) but bit my tongue.

AIBU to think they should have parked elsewhere?

It also needs to have the specialized baby trolleys kept close by but this should be doable.

Just to add to my previous post, now that the special snowflakes are back in school, parents will abuse disabled and P&C spots in order to collect said snowflakes from the local school and college.

About disabled spots - my local, rural, supermarket has a single spot with cross-hatchings so that driver and passenger can fully open their doors. It's a frequent (we are there 3-4 times per week) occurrence (2-3 times when we are there) that people will park their vehicles, from a little Yaris to a massive Range Rover, in the cross hatchings, blocking us (both myself and DP have mobility and other issues requiring doors to be open fully and we both carry a blue badge) from either exiting or entering our vehicle. The record is 90 minutes while an entitled twunt went shopping all around the village.

The supermarket couldn't care less. People don't care about people with mobility, or other needs. They only care about the impact such people dare to have on their day.

I am so sorry, Steve. People don't know they are one step from being disabled themselves. It's a whole different world they are so close to, and they are so brutal as they rush around, thinking they are so important . . . shameful.

At our local Tesco’s the p and c spaces are closer to the store than the disabled spaces. Ds does have a blue badge but the positioning of the spaces means if I have to take him to a supermarket (which is avoided at all costs) I will park in p and c because it is the space at that time which best meets his needs

It's the same locally at Tesco, Morrison's and Asda. When DP and I (both late 30s/early 40s) have to go, both with Blue Badges, we'll use the P&C spaces as they are safer.

Parking in M/Child spaces isn`t illegal or parking in disabled spaces in shopping car parks.

@KUGA
Disabled parking spaces are a legal requirement under the Equality Act (2010), should be situated close to store in supermarket car parks, and are legally enforceable.

I feel the elderly need a nearer or wider parking space more than parents tbh.They may have joint pain or fatigue or many issues you cannot see.They have lived their lives and I can't see why any parent can't park a couple of rows back or in the other spaces of there is enough wiggle room to strap children in.
Surely they can cope for once.

Parents have the power, the elderly and the disabled don't as we have had many years of Government which squeezes the most vulnerable as hard as it possibly can. Welfare State? Not for years; nothing to be proud of there any more.

Really

Maybe they have aches and pains makes walking about very tiring

I really can’t not understand why anyone would get worked up over this

It’s wrong but it doesn’t bother me.