taking your bike in shops

[united4ever]

I was outside home bargains today but there was nowhere very obvious to lock my bike up and i only wanted one item. I remember on here someone saying that it was fine to take your bike into shops....not dissimilar from pushchairs or shopping trolleys in terms of impact. Anyway, the staff member told me i had to leave it outside when i got inside. Whats the reason i wonder? Blocking the aisles? Getting the floors dirty? It was dry and quiet but i understand that the policies are not adaptable to those things.

 

[vickster]

Probably elf and safety. Did you ask why not?

 

[Smokin Joe]

Probably worried that you might take the skin of some poor old dear's shin with a pedal.

 

[S-Express]

Whats the reason i wonder? Blocking the aisles? Getting the floors dirty? It was dry and quiet but i understand that the policies are not adaptable to those things.

Because if the shop policy allows one person to bring a bike in, it will also have to allow 30 people to bring their bikes in. In any weather, and regardless of how busy the shop is. Not going to happen. Far easier to simply exclude them and avoid the issue.

 

[Lee_M]

couldnt you tell him it was a shopping trolley?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Used to do it at the local Co-Op (now it's closed, & transmogrified into a 'B&M')

I'd lean it against a display stand, whichever staff on the tobacco/lottery counter kept an eye on it for me

I'd like to think it's because whenever I went in, no matter what mood/'frame of mind' I was in, I always spoke to them & asked how their day was, etc.....

Thus, a small consideration on my part, was returned, in another manner?

 

[wisdom]

Took mine into the jewellers last week.Had to get the Mrs an anniversary present.I said I've nowhere out side to lock it would it be ok just inside the door. They said to bring it right in.it was chucking it down and it was carpeted but no problem at all they said.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Took my bike into a shop today whilst I did some shopping, mind you it was my lbs.

I wouldn't dream of taking my bike into any other type of shop, though I certainly wouldn't be bothered if others did.

 

[cisamcgu]

Take my Brommie, unfolded, into lots of different shops, no one ever has complained.

 

[Turdus philomelos]

You could put it in a shopping trolley, no?
Or, disguise the bike

 

[rivers]

I got told off by a cashier at Tesco for taking my bike into the shop yesterday. Health and safety, they could be shut down or some such nonsense. Funny thing is the security guard and management staff I passed as I walked into the shop with bike in tow said absolutely nothing to me.

 

[HLaB]

Ive tooken my bike into a couple of co ops and Lidls; it might help that I'm usually carrying it until I have to pay.

 

[nickyboy]

I would take the Brompton anywhere but I wouldn't take a proper bike into a shop.

The Brompton mafia will be after you with comments like that

My "taking bikes into shops" rules seem a little ill-thought out. I will happily take it into something like a Co-op or Tesco Express, but I will ask the staff if it's ok to prop it up while I buy whatever. I've been know to wheel it around a full size supermarket but I'm not entirely comfortable in doing so. Other shops I've never needed to go in with the bike but I wouldn't unless it was a real quick in and out and only then with staff acquiescence

 

[marshmella]

Probably worried that you might take the skin of some poor old dear's shin with a pedal.

I did exactly that a few years back not with a bike though with the trolley..it was a momentary lack of concentration

 

[Ian193]

I've taken my road bike into the tesco express near me I left it by the door insight of the cashier while getting the milk I needed after being on a ride without a problem I didn't fancy carrying 4 pints of milk for the whole ride