@azncollege wrote:
All the rural parts of California, especially random gas stations/small towns in between the drive from SoCal to NorCal. I also don't feel like there's too much competition in the SF Bay Area in general (besides a few of the more common/larger MSCs like Market Force where there seems to be more shoppers in the database). Shops in the Bay Area tend to get bonused and I'll get a bunch of last minute texts/emails/calls from schedulers trying to fill shops.
@ceasesmith wrote:
LOL! That's easy -- Montana, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, the rural parts of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming.
You know, all those places where you have to drive 200 miles just to get to a shop.......and there aren't any shops on the way there, either!
@azncollege wrote:
All the rural parts of California, especially random gas stations/small towns in between the drive from SoCal to NorCal. I also don't feel like there's too much competition in the SF Bay Area in general (besides a few of the more common/larger MSCs like Market Force where there seems to be more shoppers in the database). Shops in the Bay Area tend to get bonused and I'll get a bunch of last minute texts/emails/calls from schedulers trying to fill shops.
@shoptastic wrote:
Not a comment on states, but someone posted before that "rich" neighborhoods can often be hard to fill, interestingly. He/she said that often the residents there don't do mystery shopping, because of their already high-paying and time-consuming jobs/lives.
I've found this true in my area. The "rich" areas have shops that linger longer. I can get bonuses there more often it seems.
@shoptastic wrote:
Not a comment on states, but someone posted before that "rich" neighborhoods can often be hard to fill, interestingly. He/she said that often the residents there don't do mystery shopping, because of their already high-paying and time-consuming jobs/lives.
I've found this true in my area. The "rich" areas have shops that linger longer. I can get bonuses there more often it seems.
@MFJohnston wrote:
*Most* rural areas do not have enough shoppers. However, in some of these locations, one or two active shoppers and fill the needs, so it is easy for them to become inundated with shoppers. When a single rural area starts to get a good collection of shops that need doing, it's just a matter of time until bonuses grow enough to attract an enterprising route shopper to the area, who will shop it dry in just a few days. It can then be a several months before it is a viable shopping destination again.
Most of my routes involve video, so I pay more attention to where this work is... In the last seven months, I have done two huge routes to North/Central California, ranging from Santa Cruz to Santa Rosa to Sacramento (and vicinity) to the Bay Area. I have also seen enough work to ponder routes between Atlanta, GA and Raleigh, NC; throughout Florida, in Ohio, Indiana and Illinios and into Texas.