{"id":322306,"date":"2025-08-06T10:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322306\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T10:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:55:16","slug":"drivers-warned-over-supermarket-time-limit-rule-at-aldi-asda-sainsburys-and-morrisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322306\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers warned over supermarket ‘time limit’ rule at Aldi, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Motorists have been warned of a little-known time limit rule at major supermarkets such as Aldi<\/a>, Asda<\/a>, Sainsbury\u2019s<\/a> and Morrisons<\/a>.\u00a0According to experts, most major stores have a maximum stay, with road users only welcome to park<\/a> their vehicles for a set period of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is usually between one and three hours in a bid to ensure that only store customers are using the bays.\u00a0The system effectively prevents people from using a supermarket car park as a free drop-off before walking into city centres.\u00a0Experts at StartRescue stressed road users could be slapped with fines if they breach the maximum stay rules.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They explained: \u201cThe vast majority of supermarket car parks have a maximum allowed stay – usually of between one and three hours. If you go over this time limit, you could be handed a fine. But how efficiently or strictly a car park is patrolled varies between locations. A list of rules should be displayed on a sign in the car park.<\/p>\n

\u201cNote that some car parks are fitted with Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) systems that recognise number plates and can therefore alert the wardens if a car has overstayed the minimum parking period.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, some sites do offer unlimited parking while others may dish out extra free time to customers who spend over a certain amount of money. It means motorists must check all the signs<\/a> in car parks before stopping their vehicle to make sure they don\u2019t get needlessly caught out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aldi said: \u201cTo make sure there’s enough room for everyone, we set a limit for how long you can park. There are signs up in all our car parks to tell you more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Asda stressed most of their stores will have a maximum stay limit<\/a> which will be displayed on signs located in the car park. Morrisons revealed they do offer free parking at the majority of their stores but that \u201ctime is limited for a maximum duration\u201d depending on location.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sainsbury\u2019s stressed their stores usually come with a two-hour maximum but further “restrictions” may be in place.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They said: \u201cOur customers are welcome to park in most of our car parks for up to 2 hours completely free of charge. But if you’re not sure, don’t worry, each store has clear signs displayed with any extensions or restrictions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motorists have been warned of a little-known time limit rule at major supermarkets such as Aldi, Asda, Sainsbury\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1796,486,51,49814,116617,116614,1797,2975,1294,116616,116612,116613,2070,116615,16,116618,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-322306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-aldi","9":"tag-asda","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-car-park","12":"tag-maximum-allowed-stay-car-park","13":"tag-maximum-stay-parking","14":"tag-morrisons","15":"tag-parking","16":"tag-sainsburys","17":"tag-shop-parking","18":"tag-supermarket-car-park","19":"tag-supermarket-parking","20":"tag-supermarkets","21":"tag-time-limit-parking","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-uk-supermarket-parking","24":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114981458674321022","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}