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has anyone done these nutrition centre shops? holy cow! photos of everything and then photos of everything in everything on everything with everything. Any advice ?

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> has anyone done these nutrition centre shops? holy
> cow! photos of everything and then photos of
> everything in everything on everything with
> everything. Any advice ?

Yes. You have to LOVE taking photos

Start with the left side vitamin wall, work the center, cash-wrap and then the right wall. If you take this approach, you won't wonder which picture goes where? Do a sweep from left to center to right.

Don't forget the gondala's and the discount section, and those 4 black metal standee POP signs in the center of the store.

Don't let the associates ply you with free pizza and other distractions..

Thanks! I did two of them today. The first was pretty easy except for being a strip mall location the store was to narrow to get the example like photos. Plus I have a tendency to over shoot when I do a new shop. Ended up with 126 photos for that one. The second was a full size mall store with lots of missing signage on the shelf's and no product replacements 176 photos.

Yep. My advice? Avoid them. Works for me!

hope you are getting paid a GOOD rate!

I stopped doing these about 2 years ago. The original report wasn't too bad, but then they added numerous photo requirements and I believe the starting pay was something ridiculous like $8. I wouldn't even do these for $25. The one in my area has been sitting there for weeks.

update yeahthese are definitely not worth the time put in to complete the whole thing. 3 hours to drive (round trip) 2 hours on site (1/ place ) 2 hours(1/place) report. Made it a minimum wage job.

If you can knock that out in 45 minutes then $25 bucks is not too bad. It's the matching the PHOTOS to all required pictures online in the report, that's the most time consuming....

Definitely the photos matching is the hardest and most time consuming. When they require that many they should let you video.

Uploading the photos, editing them so they're under 2mb, rotating, resizing, properly naming them, etc is the longest and most annoying part for me!! Matching them isn't too hard, I've found it's easier to go by the order your pictures uploaded in, because usually my pictures upload randomly and not in order, but at least I know where the location of each question being matched is- like the storefront photo is towards the top and additional photos are at the bottom, etc. So I'll just go down the line on the picture side and find the appropriate question to match it with.

Resize and rotate are done for me automatically. I set up a batch program in Photoshop where I load 50 photos at a time select the batch program I made for resizing and it takes them all down from 3mb to under 1mb , puts them right side up, saves them and puts them back where they came from. Takes less than 2 minutes from copy, paste, resize, save. It is a huge time saver.

I stopped doing the phone app jobs because of the ridiculous amount of photos they started asking for. You're supposed to be surreptitious and then they ask for 8 photos of a packet of potato chips from every possible angle right next to the cash register. Way too stressful for me so I stopped.

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