The Fry’s grocery store at Tatum & Shea installed shade covers in their parking lot last week – a great solution to the Parking Lot Shade Tree question I posed last summer. It still leaves me with 3 unanswered questions:
1. Is this a competitive advantage? In other words, would you drive a little further to shop at a store with covered parking? (at least until the next store down the street offers the same thing!)
2. If more stores did this, would you be willing to put a quarter in a meter in exchange for having more covered parking around town? (I would.)
3. Why aren’t these shades covered with solar panels, and then why aren’t there more solar-panel-covered-parking structures scattered across town?!
You can read the rules for a Moving Stills post and learn how the series came to be by reading my initial post in the series – Moving Stills 1.
Your likes the shade but is disappointed by not adding solar Realtor,
Chris Butterworth
Chris Butterworth spends more time analyzing statistics and reading economic reports than is healthy. He's also a husband, father, writer, and amateur photographer. In his spare time he trained for and competed in his first triathlon.
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