ASDA Weymouth, Dorset.

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We are not disabled by choice

As I am in no doubt that this issue is company and country wide, the form has now been changed to ask what shop you use.  This will give me a better understanding of the whole problem.   If you have a comment or would like a message put on my letters page, then let me know using the new form below.  Your support helps me continue this campaign to get Asda to change their policy. Thank you all for filling out the feedback form with your kind words. The form can be found at the bottom of this page.

It is a sad day but even with all the help and support I have had, I just can not beat the might of ASDA.  They know they are in the wrong but they only care about money in the till and not how disabled people get to the store.  I have come to a stalemate with them.  they will do nothing from their Head Office and the Manager at Weymouth who lives local, will not help us out at the store.  He tells everyone there is not a parking abuse issue, when he knows there is but targets are more important to him than his customers welfare.

I intend to leave this website up and running so it can still be searched on by other and I am always here to answer your questions.  However I will no longer shop in ASDA at Weymouth, I am off to the Weymouth Managers old store, Morrison's ! 

I must thank all of you for your help in the past 18 months and wish you all well especially those of you who still work in the ASDA store at Weymouth and I am sorry for those of you who were found out to have been talking and passing information on to me.  I would also like to thank the current TCP staff and finally to Mandy.  It shows that even ASDA's and TCP staff have issues about its policies on the disabled.  If things change or we get the change in the law as I am backing, then we can resurrect our actions again.  Until then my friends..........

I must say that on my recent visit to the Weymouth Asda showed no changes at all in the running of the car park.  Under the new manager and the Asda rules (stated on the BBC) anyone parking in disabled spaces without a blue badge would get a fine.  Well I have seen cars parked without fines or badges and my team of reporters have also reported that the spaces are back to constant abuse by non blue badge holders.  It is such a shame for all the people who use the store and need the spaces provided.  It shows that the new Manager, who lives local to the store, has no control over his car park at all and has left it as a free for all.  His parking attendants have even been seen moving trolleys around, something that I am sure they are not employed or insured for and something that they should not be doing when they are paid as parking attendants.

All we can hope for now is that changes in the Law bring changes to private parking like supermarkets as this new Manager is obviously not going to help us all.  Until then we will just have to go into the store each time and report the abusers.  May be they will get fed up and do something again to resolve it.  Read on to find out the full story of Weymouth's Asda disabled parking space abuse.

Here is what has brought all this on.

Weymouth, a pretty seaside town in deepest darkest Dorset.  Not much going on here you would think, but it holds a dark secret, the local Asda and the senior company managers feel that Disabled peoples rights are nothing to do with them as such, and constantly allow them to be broken by openly allowing non disabled people to use the Disabled Parking Spaces that are provided solely for the disabled.

It even allows the advertised civil penalty fine of £40 to be waived for those who do park in the disabled spaces! 

Asda's Trolley porters given the right to allow non blue badge holders drivers to park in disabled spaces.......

Read about their past history on disabled spaces along with other supermarkets in a campaign they called 'BayWatch'.  Asda once were top of this campaign, what went wrong?  I hope they bring it back and to Weymouth This year.

Mobilise and the British Polio Fellowship are campaigning to end the abuse of disabled parking bays in supermarkets by non-disabled drivers.

The BBC has done several reports on this issue yet it still continues at Asda, they just ignore it, they just get free advertising on prime time BBC, read them here too on the letters and press page.......

You can read all about my fight to get a UK wide policy with Asda to enforce their own advertised and stated rules on disabled parking.  Just click on the links below to take you to the email trail /blog......

Asda allows constant abuse of their disabled parking spaces by anyone they feel like.  That's basically what they do in Weymouth, Dorset and probably any where else in the UK.  This site is to tell you the truth behind their decision to allow this to continue.  It will also give you the insight to how they deal with the customer in my email blog with them. 

As heard about on BBC Radio Devon's Justin lee's Lunchtime Phone-in Program.

It all goes back to January 2007 and just to let you know, I am disabled after an accident at work left me with my back crumbling.  It will not get better and although I am on sticks most of the time, I also have and use at time a wheel chair.  I am fighting the day off that I will have to use all the time but that day will come.

When I parked in a disabled space at Asda in Weymouth in January (I do not drive, so I was in a friends car using my blue badge) I noticed that there was a car without a disabled badge parked in a designated disabled parking space.  I made a complaint in the stores complaints book (you know the one, its the one the Asda Store Manager checks and responds to each day) and nothing happened at all, not even a call or letter from the Store Manager to explain the situation.  It all started from there.  So lets get down to what has been said.  Click on the email blog link to read all the details....

Asda Continue to say on their own web pages that they do protect the disabled spaces because 'The abuse of disabled parking is the single biggest issue, which is raised via our Tuned In cards'.  Its not what they told me.  Read the emails to see what they did say..... and while your here please sign the petition below and return to this site to read on, thank you.

Now read on to see what is going on inside Asda House in Leeds and especially the Weymouth store.  I don't even think the senior management know for sure what is happening in their own store?  TCP the parking company have no idea what is going on.  They can get no answer themselves currently but that of course leaves the parking attendant liable to a discrimination charge as well as TCP and Asda.

                 

Please note that I shop here.  I have nothing against the shop, its brand or any other issue than Disabled Parking Space abuse by non badge holders and Asda's policy to allow it to happen.  Some item on this website are copyright of the respective owners and I respect that.
Thank you.  I do not mean to hurt, insult or bring personal harm anyone who is mentioned on this website and will remove sections when asked.  This site is to show everyone the truth and to show personal emails between me and the companies involved to try to change company policy towards the disabled drivers.  Any use of personal threats verbal or physical made to me will be taken very seriously and reported to the relevant authorities.

Last Update 30th June 2010 and final version. This site will not be updated further as ASDA JUST WILL NOT CHANGE THEIR POLICY. Please contact the store Manager and complain to him, sorry, I am moving out of the area to an Asda free area thankfully.

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