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October 24, 2015 12:57AM
That is disappointing. While the shop did not pay a lot, I'd pick up a couple items that I was basically being reiumbursed for.
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October 24, 2015 03:02PM
@GMooneyhan MBSC wrote:

@Shop-et-al wrote:

How many of your older persons need careers, anyway? Surely some of them have completed their careers and don't even need these jobs.

Considering that the national average savings for retirement is around $25-30k, probably most of them.


Not to mention that over 50% of the people are only one to two paychecks from being homeless. Also! no increase in Social Security or veterans benefits this year because gas is so low, but milk is almost $5.00 a gallon and eggs are close to $4.00 a dozen.
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October 24, 2015 05:26PM
I noticed that. There is something very wrong with our system.
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October 25, 2015 11:32AM
@2stepps - Holy crap, your milk is that expensive? $1.99 per gallon here. Somebody has it on sale every week.

Silver certified for 11 years and happily shopping Arizona!
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October 26, 2015 01:44AM
Not in my part of the world! Yep, things are that expensive!
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October 26, 2015 07:03AM
I just did one last week, new scheduler, same site and same report.

Not my circus - Not my monkeys @(*.*)@

~Polish Proverb~
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October 27, 2015 04:03AM
I hope I'm not too late to chime in here. I came to mystery shopping BECAUSE of those of you who shopped "samplers." I worked as a supervisor of "samplers" for over five years. I did this job accidentally. I was just looking for an easy, fun, part time job after retirement. THEY make it look just so. HAHAHA. NOT SO!. SO NOT SO! I found a group of people SO IN NEED OF AN ADVOCATE, I couldn't leave them. During the time I worked, we were shopped 1-2 times per month. In this company (the largest) there is no benefit to receiving a good shop. In fact THERE ARE NO BENEF ITS. The only penalty for a "bad" shop is a poorly devised reprimand from a largely incompetent supervisor who has never done the job and cannot make viable suggestions for improvement. Oh gosh, I could go on and on. Poor shop ratings were given to some of our best people. THE "SECRET SHOPS" were SO OFF THE MARK, I started looking into MYSTERY SHOPPERS. Now that I have shopped for a little over a year, and paid SO MUCH ATTENTION TO THIS FORUM, I'm sure we had a string of lazy, flakey or newby shoppers. Following my irritation eventually got me to "an easy, fun part time job after retirement." I love mystery shopping. More on the poor "samplers" situation to any interested parties.
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October 27, 2015 05:34PM
I have been on both sides. I worked for a boxed store as an "Event Specialist" and also work as a MS off and on. The event specialist job is a thankless job. Management looms over you. You are stuck to your demo cart for the whole shift. You get one break in the middle, and the greatest thrill of all is that you get to deal with some of the freeloaders of society that want something for nothing. Oh, and I forgot to mention the children and their parents. YUCK. Most of the seniors working these jobs are there by necessity not for the thrill. You do what you have to to survive. When I go back to the box store, I always thank them and smile as I walk by. It doesn't matter that they may or may not reciprocate. It's OK because I don't know what the rest of their day might have been like.
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October 31, 2015 06:36PM
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/06/2015 11:10AM by havingfun.
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November 01, 2015 02:19AM
You sound like the majority of the workers I see at the store I go to where the samplers are. Some are wonderful at engaging, others not so much. The ones who excel also get prime special duty from what I understand. Some take great pride as being on the board as someone who sold out of their product or has the highest sales of product for the day. A few have no personality and really shouldn't be doing that job. Some pace around; some sound like robots. Those ones are just doing their job. The staff at this place have very much been like the staff of your employer. They are understanding. Some workers have had issues mid-shift and others have happily and voluntarily helped out. It's a mix and always interesting to see. ... and I still go back to one of my first posts in this topic, the sampler person is there to promote the product and give out samples and unless it's a situation where they are low on product or cooking so that it takes time, there really is no excuse for being rude, scowling, and telling a customer they already had one. That is not the philosophy of the store I was in, and the sampler finally got that message, so all is well there. To be honest, I couldn't do that job, though several of them repeatedly told me I could and should!
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November 01, 2015 01:22PM
@havingfun wrote:

I just found out that I have Meniere's disease, which can sometimes cause vertigo.
Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had Meniere's. He worked at NASA even though he was grounded and eventually got to go into space again after surgery. Luck to you!

Silver certified for 11 years and happily shopping Arizona!
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November 01, 2015 09:40PM
oh -- is that what that is? Having watched a lot of NASA movies/specials, now I understand because I remember all those Alan S. stories in the movies. Alan had some kind of surgery that allowed him to go back into space.
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