Mum’s not going back to Iceland: Huddersfield customer angry at £60 parking fine

Feb 9 2009 by Sam Casey, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Mum’s not going back to Iceland: Huddersfield customer angry at £60 parking fine

A SHOPPER has vowed to boycott Iceland after she got fined – for using the store.

Anne Capstick said she would be taking her custom elsewhere in protest at the £60 parking ticket she got at the Trinity Street store.

Mrs Capstick, of Delves Wood Road, Beaumont Park, was slapped with the fine after spending £20 in-store.

She said: “I have no intention of going back.

“If people are parking there and misusing it, fair enough. But I was a genuine customer.

“Why can’t they use a system like other shops, where you get a ticket when you go in and get it stamped at the till?

“They are going to lose more customers than me.”

Mrs Capstick was a regular customer and loyalty card-holder at the Trinity Street Iceland, and its sister store on Wakefield Road.

She had gone to the shop, whose slogan is ‘Mum’s gone to Iceland’, on December 27 to buy some provisions for her daughter’s visit.