Supermarket: Parking outside opening hours

Kategorie
Fakten und Wissen
Datum
30.03.2026
Lesedauer

Regina Groß

PR Manager

Wir entwickeln die optimale Lösung für Ihr digitales Parkraummanagement: nahtlos integriert, KI-gestützt und mit allen Funktionen, die Sie benötigen.

Park at the supermarket at night

Retain with Peter Park's digital parking space management Retailers take control of your parking space, while drivers are standing at the supermarket outside business hours. The technology is simple: Car license plates are compliant with data protection regulations when entering and leaving via a license plate scanner captured. Retailers manage the parking area in connected software.

Use vacant parking spaces profitably when there is no parking space

At night in the city center: There is yawning emptiness in supermarket parking lots, but there are hardly any parking spaces left on the side of the road. Desperate residents are turning ever larger circles in search of a free parking space. The multiple use of parking space at supermarkets or hardware stores, for example, can help.

Both parking people, retailers and residents benefit from this arrangement, as drivers save themselves the trouble of searching for a free parking space, which saves unnecessary exhaust gases. This relieves the burden on local residents. Supermarket operators are opening up an additional source of income with their offerings.

The parking space is then ready for customers again the next morning. Thanks to modern parking apps and the Peter Park system, supermarket operators simply introduce night parking and parking people spontaneously book a vacant parking space when needed.

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How it works: Modern license plate scanners instead of barriers, sensors and parking discs

Using scanners at entry and exit, the Peter Park system records the license plates of passing vehicles in accordance with data protection regulations and uses this to calculate their parking time. The company works with well-known parking app providers. As a result, drivers who want to use a free supermarket parking space at night or on Sunday can simply buy their parking permit via app by entering their license plate number.

License plate recognition is used to compare the actual parked vehicles with the parking permits. The Peter Park system thus checks whether there are only vehicles in the parking lot whose drivers have paid for the parking space. It also monitors that cars do not exceed the permitted parking period, i.e. only park outside business hours of the adjacent supermarket, for example. This function can of course also be used during the day to ensure that the maximum parking period without parking discs is met.

Additional income without effort: app parking at the supermarket

If supermarket operators make their parking spaces available to parking people at night for a fee, they not only relieve residents — who are also potential customers — when looking for a parking space, they also generate additional income. This is particularly worthwhile for local suppliers in densely populated inner cities, for whom vacant parking spaces are particularly expensive due to high prices per square meter. There is often a lack of parking spaces in the vicinity of these shopping facilities for the constantly growing number of vehicles. There should therefore be demand for such parking spaces.

With solutions such as the digital, barrier-free parking management system from Peter Park, retailers are tapping into a new source of income without major investments, as hardly any hardware is required on the floor. Only cameras are required at entrances and exits. As a result, maintenance and maintenance costs are also very low. Clear software is available for managing parking space, which allows parking area operators to also view analyses of, for example, the utilization of their parking space.

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Nighttime supermarket parking benefits residents and retailers

Free parking spaces are scarce, especially in inner-city residential areas, at night and on weekends. Supermarket operators in these areas can help eliminate this shortcoming without much effort if they make their parking spaces available to parking people at night. With a digital, barrier-free parking management system such as the one from Peter Park, they always have an overview of their parking space and can manage it with minimal investment and generate additional income.

Regina Groß

PR Manager

Wir entwickeln die optimale Lösung für Ihr digitales Parkraummanagement: nahtlos integriert, KI-gestützt und mit allen Funktionen, die Sie benötigen.

FAQs

Yes. License plate recognition works in low light using infrared support.

No — parking authorization is digital, with no paper or plastic.

No. Drivers simply need to comply with the speed limits of the applicable traffic regulations.

Through clear signage at the entrance and on the parking area.

No, you do not need to report license plate recognition to the data protection authority.

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