Need to get some holiday shopping done but worry you’ll spend half an hour trying to find a parking spot at your favourite mega-mall? A new app may solve your problem, reports the New York Times.

Read: Now there’s an app to track your app

“ParkMe, which tracks more than 28,000 locations worldwide, has emerged as a mainstay app for mall customers navigating the nation’s parking lots. With the app, they can find the closest and least expensive lots, as well as alternative garage entrances. The app’s user base surged 97 percent in the past year, and it is adding hundreds of garages to its database,” explains the report.

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