🚀 go-pugleaf

It is incredible the places you patronize and then these businesses
have the gall to charge you to park. 

First of all, if they made the parking free, and just passed the cost
of the parking lot along to the businesses they would in turn pass it
along to the customers. The nice thing about this system is that it
saves money as neither a parking attendant need be paid or money spent
on automated parking gates. This lowers prices overall and attracts
customers and/or increases profits.

Second, some people are irritated about the inconvenience of pay
parking and will simply shop elsewhere.

When governments charge to park on public streets or parking lots,
they just chase away the business from which to get their tax base,
and maybe the net income collected is less than when there is free
parking.