What do you have for August?

I am not doing that well this month. Bummer for me. Must be retribution for having 2 great months.

But so far, I have:

1 Cattleman's
2 Borders
2 Groceries on North Shore with $15 bonus each
1 Borders Coffee Shop
2 Post Offices
2 Gas Stations
1 local Natural Foods Store
1 BV (carried over from last week of July, as client could not meet til August 4th.)
2 office max
2 mcD's walk in timings only
1 sears 100 item audit
2 HP audits
1 coffee store
1 cream puff store
1 oil change
1 grocery
7 Coldstone's

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/31/2009 10:34AM by dee shops.

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Not much.

1 valet service
1 western wear
1 video game dealer
3 sunglass stores
1 testing service
1 cell phone dealer

And a bunch of aps I'm waiting on.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/31/2009 01:04PM by tgb.

27 Mystery Gas Shops
8 Gas audits
2 Lunch shops
12 Game Card Observations...

Shopping Bama and parts of Georgia.
I'm still learning 24/7.

You go, MC! GO!

mrcomputer101 Wrote:
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> 27 Mystery Gas Shops
> 8 Gas audits
> 2 Lunch shops
> 12 Game Card Observations...

What is a "game card observation"?

2 audits
11 merchandizing stores
7 stop n go's
1 grocery store

The game cards I have done are whether or not the card is offered when you do the purchase necessary to receive one. The other variant I have seen is whether they have the cups or other packaging that has the game cards attached and are using it.

So far I have scheduled:

Raising Cane's
My Beloved McDonalds Breakfast Shops (4)
Chipotle (5)
Chuck & Don's Pet Food
Borders (2)
IHOP
Genghis Grill
Local Diner

That should be about an extra 4-5 pounds this month....

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/31/2009 06:15PM by MinneapolisMichael.

Like a FF cup attachment or something?

Yes, or the game piece on your fries box or the game card they hand you at the register of a non FF place when you buy a particular item or spend over $X or make any purchase.

MinneapolisMichael Wrote:
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> So far I have scheduled:
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> Raising Cane's
> My Beloved McDonalds Breakfast Shops (4)
> Chipotle (5)
> Chuck & Don's Pet Food
> Borders (2)
> IHOP
> Genghis Grill
> Local Diner
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> That should be about an extra 4-5 pounds this
> month....

A fun month though.

One of the oil companies is starting a game card giveaway. Similar to one that went on earlier this month. This is the easiest shop I have done. Stop by the location, see if they have the game cards and do a 5 minute report. No purchase required so I picked up a card at each location during the past promotion. I won 2 ea $5 gas cards...

Shopping Bama and parts of Georgia.
I'm still learning 24/7.

Oops! I never checked the cards I got on those shops...I have one more, I better not forget this time....
Hmm, lets see I have

1 zoo
5 FF
10 price audits
1 sizing audit (first time, are they cool?)
1 test center
2 bar evals
1 tire co
3 theaters
4 grocery
1 focus group ($100 for 1 hr, woo hoo)
1 parking (first time, are they cool?)
3 sit down restaurant
1 gas
1 book store

I dont have anything scheduled beyond 8/16

jjage, in what part of the country are you? Focus groups are like taking candy from a baby!

My August - and I haven't given this my best -

2 FDs
2 oil changes
groceries
bookstores
banks - drive thru, tellers and platforms
1C-store/gas
1 hotel, Charleston, SC - oh yeah!
late-night carryout, casual dining
cell shops

Thus far

1 bank
4 phone shops
1 retail audit
12 grocery stores
2 hardware
1 Deli lunch
2 fast food
6 casual dining
2 upscale casual/fine dining

So far...

2 Wet Seals
4 Apartments.

That's all. Not good so far. Usually I get a route of about 30-40 gas shops per month but they have not been posted and the company seems to be dropping the shop fee. Not cool. I complained, but they are finding shoppers who are taking the shops for $2.00 less. Then half the shops show up on the board again and they look desperately for people to fill them for $2 more than the old fee. mmm hmmm yah. Also I tend to get 4-6 grocery shops per month and still waiting for approval on those. I've applied for like 40 shops through one company and I'm hoping that I get a fair amount. July wasn't great for me so I need things to start picking up again.

2 Children driving me crazy - $0

BUT - I've already got four scheduled for the first week in September: 3 car test drives for $25/each and one bookstore for $10.

Isn't that "2 Children driving me crazy - priceless"?

I have nothing but promises for September . . . we'll see what comes of those!

Time to go back to work. So far I have a few things to do.

20 post offices
3 groceries
1 FF
14 service stations
1 office supply

When you go back, you REALLY go for it. Good for you! :-)

OH! This just in!

1 Amusement Park with my daughter & A Cinnabon!

dee shops Wrote:
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> When you go back, you REALLY go for it. Good for
> you! :-)

I gotta to do something else besides move.

Man, I have never seen Cinnabon done here. Of course, we only have 3 on island.

What island?

Oahu

Shops scheduled on 8/1

1 Book store
29 Gas stations
3 Post offices
3 McD's
2 other ff
3 grocery
1 oil change
3 office supply
1 party store
4 Banls
2 phone shops

51 scheduled as of the 1st

I'm up to 32. But I am off rotation for some of my better shops this month, so I doubt I will get as high as last month.

I'm only at 24. And my first week is almost empty - that's usually my heavy week. Good thing June and July were good strong months b'cause it looks like August won't be.

Getting back on track, up to 35, but convinced it is not going to be as good a month for me as the last 2 have been, no to mention, have to ramp up to teach class that begins at the end of the month.

Mert- I am in WA where it is in the 90's every day for over a week....don't laugh Dee, this is HOT for us!!

Already got the amusement park done, which was great with 3 cranky, hot, tired, I'm thirsty, I'm hungry, no I'm thirsty kids

Don't totally know if the $50 bucks was worth it after 3 hours of inputting!!! I got to bed at 3am, cuz I wanted the bonus for having it done before 10am

Sigh...

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