Comments by "" (@mukrifachri) on "What Black Friday tells us about parking lots" video.

Sadly it doesn't work that way. Where I live there's at least 6 different major holidays that retailers use for large promotions, and parking are equally awful at all those times.
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@ae1ae2 Well not quite where I live - online commerce is indeed on the rise however there're still a lot of people here not really connected with technology. It's not really having to do with lowered price either, it's just that people often feel they'd need something "new". Ie. in preparation of Ied-al-Fitr a lot of people often think of giving others gift and stuff, and maybe having something new themselves. Around Christmas / New Year and Chinese new year as well. And it often goes for consumables as well - Ramadan, leading up to Ied-al-Fitr, for example would see increased sales in consumables (despite fasting, I know !) because people often feel they need to end their fasting with something. So it's not just parking - it's also traffic and such.
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IMO even those "full" parking spaces aren't full at all - with access roads that huge, you can still park parallel to the road in front of the perpendicular ones (without handbrake obviously), and the roadside around the whole place can be used as parking areas as well. If people know that such centers would be overflowed in certain days then a deviation from the rules at those days should be tolerated.
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