To think that people who use parent and child spaces without children are selfish *****

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I've only started truly noticing how many idiots do this since I had my baby 4 months ago. I can't believe how many people I've seen do it. And yes I always call them out and have had some pretty disturbing abuse thrown back.

I have also always reported to the shop staff to be told it isn't illegal and there's nothing they can do bar having a parking attendant out constantly which isn't possible (I know this isn't the shop staff's fault).

No disabled spaces? Fair enough, crack on. But this isn't the case 99% of the time. People use them because they are close to the entrance. I would rather the spaces be far away from the entrance with a small trolley park nearby with car seat/child seat trolleys.

Yesterday I purposefully parked straight down the middle of two normal spaces because I didn't want to risk having to reverse out just to get my baby's car seat back in. As I was walking in I witnessed 3 separate very able bodied people walk back to their cars without children.

Just really pees me off 😒

@AvengedQuince

Yes. I paid under £150 for a Graco travel system and I paid around £750 for a baby style pram with carrycot and pushchair seat, and the car seat which was entirely separate.

There was never anything posh about having a travel system. They come in all budgets.

I'm not sure I understand as £150 and £750 are very different amounts. I paid roughly £100 for a newborn to 4 years seat and £50 for my pushchair 17 years ago. Are you saying a travel system would have cost the same?

When my daughter was born we started ordering from Ocado. I didn't want to schlep around doing a weekly shop with a baby; so much quicker and easier having it delivered and I'd far rather spend that time doing something fun with her rather than going to the supermarket.

@AvengedQuince

I'm not sure what is hard to understand.

One was a cheap travel system and the other was more expensive separates.

The point of the post, which is that travel systems were never posh, seems to have been lost.

I never had one as they cost too much when I was looking so I don't fully understand. Does the car seat do them until they are ready for a booster now? I'm sure when I was looking it was just for infants so you'd need to buy another seat. That was years ago though and none of my friends had one, just the older middle class parents so I posted based on that, I guess things have changed now.

YABFU.

They're purely for marketing but lots of 'mummies of PFBs' can't see that.

Supermarkets probably know that parents with children spend more than other people so they're offering a gimmick to get them to shop there, knowing if they don't they might go elsewhere.

If they had market research that said people with the letter Z in their registration spent the most in supermarkets they'd have spots near the door only for cars with 'Z' registrations instead.

@AvengedQuince

I am not talking about now. It was many years ago, more in fact than you.

The price comparison is between travel system and separates, not todays prices.

I don't know where you were looking but there have always been cheap entry level priced travel systems since they first came out.

Mine was a Graco mirage bought in 2001z

I only posted based on my own experience of looking then realising I'd need to buy another carseat too as it was just for infants! It was overseas so maybe behind the UK, but when I had a baby, where I was, they were a middle class thing. I realise now that the UK must have been different.

I had reason to go into Morrison's at about 9pm the other night and all the p and c spaces and mst of the blue badge spaces were empty, I park in on of the p and c places as they have changed the carpark so that the unrestricted spaces are about 50m from the door! Maybe the stores need to say These spaces are openly available after, say, 7pm.

Oh I often park in the P&C spaces if i go to the shop late evening, say 9 or 10. Children should be tucked up in bed by then anyway not in the supermarket.