I disagree. If someone needs a handicap parking spot and sees it filled up with stuff the store is blowing out. That person can go to another food store that will want their business more than Fred Meyer.
I don’t want government using my tax money for policing every bit of conduct that happens in our city. I’m for smaller government and the best way for that to happen is to make Kroger the owner of Fred Meyer know what is going on. You can bet that they will deal with the manager that made this mistake.
Government is the answer when you want more problems.

When has anyone ever seen someone get a ticket in Idaho for violating handicaped parking regs? The able bodies who have a card to hang for someone in their family who needs handicaped parking will used the @#$$## card and park in handicaped parking.

Forget about a ticket… having the car towed will take care of the problem. Check out the Idaho Center signage. Not one violator was noted at the Buckaroo breakfast this morning.

There are people out there that really do need handicaped parking and the idiots who think it is ok to park or otherwise use the space and not be in need of it need a big fat “L” tattooed on their foreheads.

Gordon, the correct thing to do is contact the store and tell them that they are blocking spots that disabled customers need to shop there. I’m sure this was an oversight and could be taking care of in a jiffy.
Us folks of Idaho can work together and not go running to government for all our problems. All it would have taking is for someone to go to the customer service desk and politely inform the store of this and let them know its not scoring any points with customers that see this disregard for disabled folks. I’m willing to bet the manager would have gone out there at once and started moving stuff to hurry up and clear the parking spots.
People make stupid mistakes this is without question a stupid mistake.

Mr. Watcher said: ” I’m sure this was an oversight …”
Yeah, I suppose so, if the stuff was actually set up out there by someone who didn’t see all the signs and the paint on the pavement, etc.
If so, I’m glad to know the store hires the handicapped, even if it doesn’t save parking spaces for them.

Let’s see – the economy sucks, we have 46 million people without health insurance, an incompetent mayor and governor, and the fact the Freddies is having a sidewalk sale for a few days is such a big deal you have to turn it into an article? It’s TEMPORARY – get over it.

As for ‘those merchants trying to make a buck’ – hell yes, let them make a buck. Freddies employs hundreds of people in the Treasure Valley, and pays untold tens of thousands in taxes here. You don’t see them laying off people like Micron or Albertsons.

I would like to see some of the whiners on here try to go create jobs. It’s not as easy as it sounds, give it a go and see how you do.

Oh, and if you don’t like what they are doing, man up and file a complaint about it. Don’t hide behind the Internet and whine about it.

I agree with ADR. I bet most of the posers on this blog shop at Wal (insert red commie star here) Mart anyway.

Thanks for enabling a giant flock of regular whiners Guardian.