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You pay for private parking spaces, in part (i.e. in combination with other customers). I also pay for parking spaces, in part, by my patronage but never use them. Consequently, your share of the usage is higher than your share of the payment. So again, even private parking of this sort is subsidized.

The store didn't add parking spots in case you decided to buy a car.

I don't follow. You're saying that the store didn't provide parking to help some future, possible me-with-a-car? How is that relevant?

Only if there is no minimum parking requirement (which there usually is). Otherwise they provided the parking space because the government compelled them to, which is a subsidy on your parking space.

There's a lot of parking on public streets, isn't there? That's a big subsidy for car owners that comes at a cost to non-car owners.

That's true, but has absolutely nothing to do with what I wrote.