Its always easier to reverse into a space and drive out, unfortunately that means either squeezing past the car with the trolley to the boot, or leaving the trolley at the front of the car and carrying shopping to the boot, neither particularly hard IMO but seemingly impossible for some.
Several problems with modern cars, the design of most leaves massive blind spots especially to the rear 2/3rds view, the cars are often far too big for the driver to cope with and being FWD in most cases have the turning circle of a supertanker, but the main problem seems to be the total incompetence of people to either choose a car they can cope with or learn to drive the one they bought properly.
I've seen male drivers of these huge repmobiles Mondeos and other oversized barges make a complete pigs ear of parking in normal parking spaces, its almost painful to watch and motorway service areas provide hilarious viewing, driving in forwards oblivious to the sensibility and ease of reverse parking, then trying to get a huge car with a useless lock forwards into a space with inadequate room in one shunt when its blindingly impossible, often ending up leaving the car togther with all the other poorly driven junk in the row in a herringbone pattern....i say male drivers for the reason that in most cases female drivers either have the sense to drive a car they can manage or in the cases of females in big cars are usually competent drivers.
Incidentally one of the many reasons i don't own a FWD car, apart from driving displeasure, is that RWD cars do generally have a decent steering lock and not so fashionably shaped as to be almost impossible to see out of in any direction.
Most car parks do have some sort of one way system, they obviously economically have to fit as many vehicles as possible into the available space, and back to back rowed parking is the most space effective.
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