Lidl customer Heike Schmid is angry. She realizes that she parked wrong. But from their point of view, the amount of the fine is a “rip-off”. She has to pay 30 euros because the sensors in the Lidl parking lot could not properly detect her car.
The Lidl customer Heike Schmid is shocked about a fine that she is supposed to pay for wrong parking. She has to shell out 30 euros because she did not park her car properly at the market in Sigmaringen (Baden-Württemberg). The spark of contention: Schmid parked in such a way that the sensors installed in the ground could not properly detect her car. So it was unclear whether she complied with the permitted parking time of 90 minutes. The 30 euros are the result.
Schmid admits her omission to the “Schwäbische Zeitung”. But that “had nothing to do with malicious intent,” she says. She went shopping at Lidl for 30 minutes and paid 60 euros. It’s okay that she gets a penalty, but the amount “scared me,” said Schmid.
“That can’t be true,” she says of the “Schwäbische Zeitung”. “To punish my sloppy parking – not even directly in front of the shop, but rather further back – with 30 euros is simply a rip-off.”
A Lidl spokeswoman says to the “Schwäbische Zeitung” about the case: “If two parking spaces are occupied, other customers have one parking space less available.” And about the amount of the penalty: “The contractual penalty is adapted to public transport.”
Among other things, Lidl leaves the parking lot in Sigmaringen with the sensor technology from the company Park
