While the opening of a new Coles supermarket in Alderley may be convenient news for locals, the centre comes with serious parking restrictions.
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Customers can park free for two hours at the Alderley Coles and Liquorland, but any stay over that time limit will cost shoppers a whopping $77, according to signage at the centre.
Coles Alderley store manager James Felsman said the parking limit and $77 fee was put in place to deter commuters from parking there and catching the train to the city, as the parking is for Coles customers.
The Coles centre has about 220 parking spaces and is directly across the road from the Alderley train station, which has 86 parking spaces.
Up the road at Mitchelton, the large Brookside Shopping Centre is also close to a train station on the same rail line.
However with more than 2600 parking spaces at the shopping centre and about 300 commuter parking spaces at Mitchelton station, a spokeswoman for the shopping centre said they had an abundance of parking and no need to charge for it.
"We have no immediate plan to bring in paid parking," she said.
The Newmarket Village shopping centre, less than two kilometres from the Alderley Coles, has a three-hour maximum parking time. There are fines for over-staying the limit, but a Newmarket Village spokeswoman did not know the exact amount.
The Westfield in Chermside introduced paid parking in 2011 in an effort to reduce the number of commuters parking and then catching buses to the city.
The centre charges nothing for the first three hours, and has a maximum daily fee of $20.
The recent introduction of paid parking at Toowong Village shopping centre was met with mixed reactions, but centre management said the parking scheme was introduced as a last resort to deter commuters.
Customers at the Toowong centre, which sits above Toowong Station, now receive two hours of free parking. For a stay of seven hours or more, people can expect to fork out $49 and $20 for an overnight stay.
Toombul shopping centre in Nundah has 1700 parking spaces. Near a bus interchange like Chermside's Westfield centre, Toombul has a strict "no commuter policy" with fines for any breaches.
