The furniture shops at the two locations closest to me were taken. i can't believe it. People must really be desperate to shop. I'd sooner do the $10-12 USPS shops.@dmm316 wrote:
The furniture shop at the store closest to me was taken almost immediately for no fee. The regular store shop sat for about a week and was finally given a $5.00 bonus, after which it was taken. Personally I won't take them until they offer at least $15.00. If others want to take them for less, more power to them.
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The bulky item can be lightweight, like a laundry basket or oversized pillow.@NinS wrote:
Up to $18 plus reimbursement here. (My make an offer for more was rejected.) I’ve never done one and can’t figure out if the shop is furniture or not. If carrying around a bulky item for 15 minutes is required I’ll probably pass since I can make more at a 5 Guys without that hassle.
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@shoptastic wrote:
ii.) I mentioned this in another thread, but I wonder if MSCs are desperate. They are small businesses and many did not get PPP loans.
@teriraia wrote:
I always carried a pillow.
@breestjon wrote:
$5 coupon is not bad if you shop at Big Lots already. Just like reading a book for $6, it is all in the way you look at things.
You have a better BL than I do. At my store, the employees never offer help. I walked around for the maximum time last time I did the shop and was never offered assistance. Exactly what I expected based on my previous visits to this location.@roflwofl wrote:
@teriraia wrote:
I always carried a pillow.
And I've never had to carry it more than 2 minutes tops. EVERYbody there seems to jump on you right away and offer a basket.
Yeah, I did my fourth one today, and in a different state than where I usually work. I am 0-for-4 in being offered a cart, hasn't happened once.@MisterBill wrote:
You have a better BL than I do. At my store, the employees never offer help. I walked around for the maximum time last time I did the shop and was never offered assistance. Exactly what I expected based on my previous visits to this location.@roflwofl wrote:
@teriraia wrote:
I always carried a pillow.
And I've never had to carry it more than 2 minutes tops. EVERYbody there seems to jump on you right away and offer a basket.
The grilled and fried chicken sandwiches at that chain are very good. Sadly, after they got sold a year or so ago, they took a bunch of veggie add-ons off their menu. Their fries are also very good, although much different than FG.@2stepps wrote:
The only shop I have ever done there is the furniture shop. Back when I first started doing mystery shopping I would take a job with no fee at a burger joint that was getting smashed. The burger was OK but not great.
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They figure they can put them out there with no fee and figure that some suckers will take a few. Then they raise the price for the rest of them to try to entice others to take them for sub-standard fees before finally raising them to a price worth doing them for. You can say the same thing about their FG pricing. Obviously it works for them.@KokoBWare wrote:
The MSC NEVER learns. They're trying again to do the bulky item shop in my area for no fee. In a pig's eye.
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Are you sure the quantitative data is not valuable?@Rousseau wrote:
I understand the supply and demand argument - that some bottom feeders will take the shops. The MSC must not care that its reputation is tarnished by accepting feeless work as valuable to it and to its client. But then again, the MSC is known for quantitative reporting with little or no qualitative component. The result, of course, is data that is worthless to any person who cares to know about what is happening on the floor, but valued by MBA types that do not value the business beyond numbers.
Are you sure the quantitative data is not valuable?@shoptastic wrote: