Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Perhaps the outcome of this encounter could have been foreseen, this making it unwise to have taken an expensive machine to Tesco in the first place if you were unwilling to use the cycle racks.
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Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
I used to leave my bike by the tills, in the local Co-Op (now closed, taken over my B&M), with no problems
Staff kept an eye on it for me, maybe because I was always polite/asked them how they were/how was their day
It was an odd affair though, as the local kids used to push their around the aisles/ride those 'push scooters' to no comeback (maybe they knew about the closure before customers, so weren't bothered??
Likewise the local Lidl, can leave it by tills
ASDA however, won't let me leave it leaning against a bare wall inside, "H&S risk"?!?!, so I left my goods on the till & walked out
I have returned, but on foot, or in car
Staff kept an eye on it for me, maybe because I was always polite/asked them how they were/how was their day
It was an odd affair though, as the local kids used to push their around the aisles/ride those 'push scooters' to no comeback (maybe they knew about the closure before customers, so weren't bothered??
Likewise the local Lidl, can leave it by tills
ASDA however, won't let me leave it leaning against a bare wall inside, "H&S risk"?!?!, so I left my goods on the till & walked out
I have returned, but on foot, or in car
wheresthetorch
Dreaming of Celeste
- Location
- West Sussex
I think that would have been pretty mean-spirited.
DRHysted
Guru
- Location
- New Forest
Your bike cost nearly 8 grand!! I’d never take that shopping.
vickster
Legendary Member
Either that or sums aren’t his strong point?
I'm planning a solo unsupported LE-JOG-LE ride, camping with the occasional B&B, hopefully before I hit 65 (so I've got 4 years- not to take doing it!!). I will have a fully loaded tourer and am sure that I will need to go in to a big supermarket at some stage as I am a coeliac and getting gluten-free food can be difficult in smaller shops, they just cannot afford to stock it. I would be very reluctant to leave my fully laden bike outside no matter how many locks I could put on it, so either wheeling it around or asking the staff to keep an eye on it would be my only option. I don't really see the difference in wheeling it around compared to someone who uses the shops' mobility scooter (as opposed to someone who has to use one permanently). In our local Tesco you can't move for the staff wheeling large trollies around picking up internet shopping. Perhaps I'm wrong, but avoiding the busiest times and being careful, what's the problem?
Most likely, I make sure to do the same and leave my bike leaning against the security desk at both Sainsburys and Asda. When people are rude to me at work I am inclined to respond negatively.
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
It's all 'health and safety' these days
. 'You can't bring it in because someone might fall over it'. Yes but this particular one is 'zesty lime'(high viz yellowy/green) in colour and it'll be standing up,i won't be lying it down on the floor'(chav style) i tell them. Yet they don't have a problem when i put my shopping basket down while i go off to find items at the other end of the store.
. 'You can't bring it in because someone might fall over it'. Yes but this particular one is 'zesty lime'(high viz yellowy/green) in colour and it'll be standing up,i won't be lying it down on the floor'(chav style) i tell them. Yet they don't have a problem when i put my shopping basket down while i go off to find items at the other end of the store. 
confusedcyclist
Veteran
OP wants to take his entitled rear end and a bicycle on to private property and insists that the security guard, just doing his job is the stupid one. The simple solution is to lock the bicycle outside. If one simply can't afford insurance or payout of pocket for repairs of your bicycle (regardless, the chances of that happening must be infinitesimally small), you really shouldn't be riding something you are so precious about to the shops in the first place. I can only dream of imagining the hysteria that might set in if someone shunted your bicycle accidentally with a trolley, or knocked it with a hand basket.
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Jody
Stubborn git
What do you expect people with babies or toddlers to do. Dump the pushchair in the foyer and carry them round so you're not inconvenienced for 10 seconds?
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
I just park out front of the grocery store and lock my bicycle to the rack. Since it's a grocery store, there are always employees and their friends loitering outside having a smoke, and they tend to watch the bicycles as well.
They were probably hiding behind 'assumed' 'elf & safety rules. As a H & S rep at my place of work, it's common for folk to claim this when there's no such ruling in place.
At a recently built Aldi near us, the cycle racks are at the back of the store ( probably a space issue to be fair), whereas all the other Aldis in town they're at the front.
Result - ? All the customers chain their bikes to the railings at the front of the store: job done - !
Result - ? All the customers chain their bikes to the railings at the front of the store: job done - !
As Evans are an agent for Brompton, this is very odd. What happens if someone tries to take an unfoldable bike into the shop - ? 'Oi - ! Yew carn't bring that in 'ere - !'
