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March 23, 2021 04:03AM
I haven't seen the mystery shopping company post new ones for maybe 1-2 weeks now, which is weird to me since I've always been able to pick a couple up every weekend. It sucks cause I rely on these for some of my groceries. Has anyone seen these be posted lately?
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March 23, 2021 04:27AM
One of the schedulers just left and gave away the shops to specific shoppers. I got 14. In two weeks, you see the next round posted.
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March 23, 2021 06:07AM
in my area, the last week of the month for both jan/feb, there were no kroger shops. march stayed the same.
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March 23, 2021 06:41AM
I’ve also been worried that the project may have ended. I have not seen any new shops posted for several weeks.
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March 23, 2021 12:19PM
I have been wondering the same thing. Nothing on the board in my area, which is very rare, and never lasts like it has been now.
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March 23, 2021 01:18PM
@charleybuddy wrote:

in my area, the last week of the month for both jan/feb, there were no kroger shops. march stayed the same.

In my area it is the same.
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March 23, 2021 02:20PM
I completed my first Kroger shop in July of 2006; the pay was $5 + $9. At the beginning of 2007, I decided, as Kroger was not a store I regularly shopped, to only accept the visits when the MSC was in such a need they were willing to pay me $15 + $9. During 2011 or 2012, Kroger suspended mystery shopping and did not reinstate the program until, according to my log, 08/2014, when I completed several for $25 + $9. It, then, would not be unprecedented for them to again suspend the program.
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March 23, 2021 02:23PM
I hope they continue it. I'm wondering if they're revamping the shops to reflected the coming of the end of the pandemic.

Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.
Richard Feynman-- letter to Ashok Arora, 4 January 1967, published in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track (2005) p. 230
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March 23, 2021 02:55PM
I am seeing them in my area.
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March 23, 2021 04:21PM
It has become a mess since the last reasonably competent scheduler left. The current scheduler for my area is forgetting to release new shops, letting old shops sit on the board with expired dates for days or even weeks, and neglecting to assign shops that she has advertised with a bonus. I hope they get their act together on this...
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March 23, 2021 04:48PM
Not sure about scheduling in my area. It's all done with the MSC employees. Just got 5 PAD shops for today tomorrow that were for two weekends ago. No new shops on the board.

Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.
Richard Feynman-- letter to Ashok Arora, 4 January 1967, published in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track (2005) p. 230
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March 23, 2021 04:59PM
No shops in my area either!
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March 23, 2021 05:19PM
@whosear wrote:

Not sure about scheduling in my area. It's all done with the MSC employees. Just got 5 PAD shops for today tomorrow that were for two weekends ago. No new shops on the board.
Every area is scheduled by msc employees. They don’t use outside schedulers.
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March 23, 2021 08:49PM
They just came up in ny area for next two weekends. :-)

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/23/2021 08:49PM by pegleg2000.
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March 24, 2021 12:28AM
I’ve noticed the past few months that there seems to be none around the 3rd week of the month. Like others, they have now posted in my area for the next two weeks and I self assigned 8.
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March 24, 2021 12:29AM
Yes, back on in our area as well. Thank you all.

Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.
Richard Feynman-- letter to Ashok Arora, 4 January 1967, published in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track (2005) p. 230
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March 24, 2021 12:58AM
@grille wrote:

I’ve noticed the past few months that there seems to be none around the 3rd week of the month. Like others, they have now posted in my area for the next two weeks and I self assigned 8.

I self assigned 7. :-)
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March 24, 2021 07:55PM
@pegleg2000 wrote:

@grille wrote:

I’ve noticed the past few months that there seems to be none around the 3rd week of the month. Like others, they have now posted in my area for the next two weeks and I self assigned 8.

I self assigned 7. :-)
At base rate?
If I could self-assign with a bonus, that would be ideal.
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March 24, 2021 08:28PM
I self assigned 7. :-)[/quote]
At base rate?
If I could self-assign with a bonus, that would be ideal.[/quote]

Yes I take them at base rate currently. 8 is two weeks worth of groceries (I use the fee and reimbursement) and the report is painless. If the report reverts back to the pre-COVID, I’ll only do them when I’m asked to do them with a bonus.
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March 24, 2021 08:41PM
@SoCalMama wrote:

@pegleg2000 wrote:

@grille wrote:

I’ve noticed the past few months that there seems to be none around the 3rd week of the month. Like others, they have now posted in my area for the next two weeks and I self assigned 8.

I self assigned 7. :-)
At base rate?
If I could self-assign with a bonus, that would be ideal.

At base rate.
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March 25, 2021 04:43AM
Hmm I’m in a market saturated with flakes. I’ve only been doing them with a bonus for the last year. If you wait, do they all get taken?
ETA: The competition who took them in my area at base rate was my husband. I trained him to stop doing that though. He can't shop at all during the pandemic, so I am doing them all at a good bonus, every round. Not every shop, just as many as the rotation allows.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/25/2021 05:44AM by SoCalMama.
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March 25, 2021 08:44AM
socalmama, in my area, if i don’t self assign at base, the kroger shops i want are gone within an hour after release. the rest (40+ miles out) are gone by end of release day.
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March 25, 2021 09:52AM
@SoCalMama wrote:

Hmm I’m in a market saturated with flakes. I’ve only been doing them with a bonus for the last year. If you wait, do they all get taken?
ETA: The competition who took them in my area at base rate was my husband. I trained him to stop doing that though. He can't shop at all during the pandemic, so I am doing them all at a good bonus, every round. Not every shop, just as many as the rotation allows.

They go real quick in my area. I use to be able to get a bonus but that was quite a while ago. They fly off the board now.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/25/2021 09:53AM by pegleg2000.
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March 25, 2021 09:53AM
@charleybuddy wrote:

socalmama, in my area, if i don’t self assign at base, the kroger shops i want are gone within an hour after release. the rest (40+ miles out) are gone by end of release day.

Same here.
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March 25, 2021 04:09PM
Well that bites. I often contact the scheduler when I see overdue shops in back-up status.

For me, it’s just a waiting game. Same with Jack in the Box. I wait until the job hits a specific target. Last month, my gross was over $800 for Jack in the Box alone.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/25/2021 04:09PM by SoCalMama.
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March 25, 2021 04:42PM
@SoCalMama wrote:

Well that bites. I often contact the scheduler when I see overdue shops in back-up status.

For me, it’s just a waiting game. Same with Jack in the Box. I wait until the job hits a specific target. Last month, my gross was over $800 for Jack in the Box alone.

I also get good bonuses with Jack in the Box.
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March 25, 2021 06:40PM
@pegleg2000 wrote:

@SoCalMama wrote:

Well that bites. I often contact the scheduler when I see overdue shops in back-up status.

For me, it’s just a waiting game. Same with Jack in the Box. I wait until the job hits a specific target. Last month, my gross was over $800 for Jack in the Box alone.

I also get good bonuses with Jack in the Box.
I started getting picky. Somebody in my area picked them all up at $14. I don't bite at $14.
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March 25, 2021 09:08PM
They are picked up in minutes here at base pay. There's a few further out locations that typically go to a bonus but it's still not worth the drive for a dollar or two PAD.
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March 26, 2021 12:12AM
I got a text today from the new guy. I asked him to check flight prices. Poor thing. He will learn the software quickly, hopefully.
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March 26, 2021 12:47PM
Pretty sure I just did my very last Kroger shop. I received a message that morning that my report was rejected because it wasn’t input in 2 hours. It was less than 3 hours, and this isn’t something I’m willing to quibble about. I’m sure someone will take them and do the report in the parking lot.
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