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.

She said: “I just needed to get a few bits and pieces. I’ve been there lots of times before and never noticed any parking signs.

“I went in, got two or three things and spent about £20. I wasn’t in there more than 20 minutes, then I left and didn’t think any more about it.

“Then I got a ticket through the post saying that I had parked illegally on Trinity Street.”

She said no-one asked her in the store if she had paid for parking.

An Iceland spokeswoman said the company introduced pay-and-display parking in November.

She added: “This system was introduced to help reduce the number of people who parked in our car parks taking up car park spaces for genuine Iceland customers. Iceland customers are able to claim back their car park fees when they complete their shopping in store by producing their ticket at the till with their shopping.”