Aldi worker covers a car with 34 parking notices

An Aldi worker plastered a car with 34 parking notices warning them not to exceed the allocated staying period.

The unidentified staff member at the Inverness branch taped messages to the vehicle warning customers face fines if they park for longer than 90 minutes. 

Karn Cambell, who took pictures of the car, thought the owner had been pranked – but today Aldi said it had ‘spoke to’ one of its workers.

The Aldi worker plastered these notices over one of the vehicles in its Inverness car park, in what was initially assumed to be a prank 

The notices threaten a fine if the car exceeds the 90-minute staying period allocated by the supermarket chain 

The notices threaten a fine if the car exceeds the 90-minute staying period allocated by the supermarket chain 

Pictures were posted to Facebook bearing the caption: ‘Aldi must be serious about the parking fine.’

The notices, which are information leaflets, explain to customers that the car park is for customers only and they cannot stay longer than an hour and a half.

On social media, one user said ‘Ffs, what next?’ while another added ‘That’s over the top.’

One user wrote ‘Someone got stick happy’ and another joked: ‘I think the fines might be worth more than the car now.’

Aldi contradicted suspicious that the notes were left by a prankster, confirming that they were actually left by a staff member 

Aldi contradicted suspicious that the notes were left by a prankster, confirming that they were actually left by a staff member 

Speaking today, Karn said: ‘They were only the information leaflets handed out in store. Most likely someone having a prank.’

But an Aldi spokesperson said: ‘The flyers were issued by a member of staff in contravention of our policies, and this action was not endorsed by Aldi or Parking Eye.

‘The colleague responsible has been spoken to about their behaviour and the vehicle has not incurred a fine.’

In April this year a driver pranked a fellow motorist with a fake parking notice after spotting the car straddling two parent and baby spaces.

Mike Lyddon, 49, left a note ticked inside the yellow penalty pocket on a Land Rover Freelander and wrote it capital letters: ‘Stop parking like a c**k.’

The sales rep, from Woking, Surrey, said the prank was a ‘spur of the moment thing’ after spotting the car outside of a Tesco branch in Weybridge, Dorset.

 

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