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@SK3030 wrote:

Anyone know when the next round will post

Last month it was the 19th. Haven't gotten any emails about this month.

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I'm assuming this week, and shops start this coming Sumday.

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

Generally, from today through Friday, I check. I will predict tomorrow will be the day. But don't etch that in stone. I picked up a couple of shops that dropped back on the board. I had through today to do them.

I sign up for at least in-store and pick up. If Fuel is available I grab all three. One trip, 3 shops.

They're on the board here. No Pick Up but Competitor. Also, I can only schedule one shop this period for the Fuel shop at the same location.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/17/2023 06:14PM by whosear.

I see in-store and competitor shops posted, no pick-ups yet.
Edit: pickups just posted a few minutes ago (11:30am)

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/17/2023 06:29PM by Zalidina.

No competitor pickups in my area and I really like those! Some variety from a monthly Kroger tour.

Our competitor shops are posted and going fast! 1:35 PM PDT.

They beat me to our competitor shops here.. oh well, thats what I get for being sick and staying in bed.

Bummer. Hope you feel better soon! Looks like I was a couple hours late picking up the newly posted shops. Still was able to get a few close to my house.

@Morledzep wrote:

They beat me to our competitor shops here.. oh well, thats what I get for being sick and staying in bed.

A question for those or you who are very seasoned - does one need to do an in store Kroger shop for each competitor pickup?

I got the memo that the expectation is that one would keep a ratio of 1:1 in store and pickup. However, the competitor shops have no in store shops.

If one were doing four Target pickups and four Kroger pickups, would the expectation be to do four Kroger in store or eight (considering there are no Target in store shops)?

Thank you for any insight you might have!

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/17/2023 10:35PM by olympia tennenbaum.

My understanding is that if you have competitor shops, you would need to do the same number of Kroger in store shops. If you have 8 Safeway pickup shops, you need to do 8 Kroger in stores.

I am curious how fuel shops are considered. Do they count as "in store" or are they completely separate from the equation?

@olympia tennenbaum wrote:

A question for those or you who are very seasoned. - does one need to do an in store Kroger shop for each competitor pickup?

I got the memo that the expectation is that one would keep a ratio of 1:1 in store and pickup. However, the competitor shops have no pickups.

If one were doing four Target pickups and four Kroger pickups, would the expectation be to do four Kroger in store or eight (considering there are no Target in store shops)?

Thank you for any insight you might have!

Hi guys. I have been doing Kroger shops for quite a while, and I have never received any memo about a 1 to 1 ratio. Where can I find it? Thx

I don't know about seasoned... I do one shop each at each of the Krogers that I go to, one inside, one pickup shop, and one fuel station if they are available. If there are competitor shops I do as many as I can get my paws on. And I don't do them on Fridays, I do them on other days so that my Fridays are entirely devoted to getting my four times fuel points at Kroger.

@Morledzep wrote:

They beat me to our competitor shops here.. oh well, thats what I get for being sick and staying in bed.

I hope you were not so sick that you could not enjoy your coffee and that your son was able to bring it to you!

@Mellifluy wrote:

My understanding is that if you have competitor shops, you would need to do the same number of Kroger in store shops. If you have 8 Safeway pickup shops, you need to do 8 Kroger in stores.

I am curious how fuel shops are considered. Do they count as "in store" or are they completely separate from the equation?

@olympia tennenbaum wrote:

A question for those or you who are very seasoned. - does one need to do an in store Kroger shop for each competitor pickup?

I got the memo that the expectation is that one would keep a ratio of 1:1 in store and pickup. However, the competitor shops have no pickups.

If one were doing four Target pickups and four Kroger pickups, would the expectation be to do four Kroger in store or eight (considering there are no Target in store shops)?

Thank you for any insight you might have!

For fuel shops, I recall there being an expectation set that there would be one in store for each fuel. However, I'm not sure how that works out when you add in pickups.

@Morledzep wrote:

I don't know about seasoned... I do one shop each at each of the Krogers that I go to, one inside, one pickup shop, and one fuel station if they are available. If there are competitor shops I do as many as I can get my paws on. And I don't do them on Fridays, I do them on other days so that my Fridays are entirely devoted to getting my four times fuel points at Kroger.

I really wish there was a way to just schedule in store and pickup together on one date. There are SO many shops in my area and they go SO quickly that I often can't get in store and pickup together let alone just get both locations. Somehow, last month the stars aligned and all of my pickups and in stores happened at the same time. This time, I'm going to have to have separate days for pickups and in stores because many of the in store shops were gone or didn't have availability that would align with the pickups.

First world problems, I know. I usually get extremely sick of these shops by the end because I get extreme analysis/paralysis trying to optimize the $9 spend across 3 items. I'm trying to promise myself that I'll do better with my planning ahead and not let the clearance rack derail me. In the end, I'm really grateful for them and I'm trying to get a little more creative in how I do my spending. Let's just say there's more pyrex storage and maybe even a squishmallow or two around the house now...

@gladysfarfel wrote:

Hi guys. I have been doing Kroger shops for quite a while, and I have never received any memo about a 1 to 1 ratio. Where can I find it? Thx

I'm sorry, I don't quite recall when it came out. Some people who had been doing more pickups lost the ability to do any (myself included) and then it was clarified that the expectation was to do one in store for each pickup.

I was unable to get any pick up shops last time. I was able to do 6 in store shops however. Yesterday, I was able to get pick ups including 3 competitor and 3 Krogers. I also took in stores for Krogers this time. As I did not get any pick ups last month but did do 6 in stores, I wonder if they consider that when counting what I have done? One store I have a competitor pick up for has in the past had in store shops- but I do not see any this time unless someone took it before I was logged in. Not sure how this will play out. I do not love in stores given the detail involved with names, descriptions, etc but take them to be able to do pick ups which are very easy and more rewarding in terms of groceries IF the person picking actually gives me everything I ordered- has happened twice where things that I found to be in sock were listed as not available with no sub so that I lose out on about $14 worth of groceries and got hit with the pick up fee which I did not love.

How do find kroger shops?

@SueW70 wrote:

I was unable to get any pick up shops last time. I was able to do 6 in store shops however. Yesterday, I was able to get pick ups including 3 competitor and 3 Krogers. I also took in stores for Krogers this time. As I did not get any pick ups last month but did do 6 in stores, I wonder if they consider that when counting what I have done? One store I have a competitor pick up for has in the past had in store shops- but I do not see any this time unless someone took it before I was logged in. Not sure how this will play out. I do not love in stores given the detail involved with names, descriptions, etc but take them to be able to do pick ups which are very easy and more rewarding in terms of groceries IF the person picking actually gives me everything I ordered- has happened twice where things that I found to be in sock were listed as not available with no sub so that I lose out on about $14 worth of groceries and got hit with the pick up fee which I did not love.

The MSC reimburses the pickup fee.

@purpleicee wrote:

@Morledzep wrote:

They beat me to our competitor shops here.. oh well, thats what I get for being sick and staying in bed.

I hope you were not so sick that you could not enjoy your coffee and that your son was able to bring it to you!

You know me so well... yes I did get to drink my coffee and yes he did bring it to me.

Hello.

Look for an email dated 9/22/22 with the subject line of "Kroger & Pick-Up - Please Read!!" It states, in part:

"There is a setting for shoppers who only or mostly perform pick-up shops, which blocks them from being able to take anymore pick-up shops, and this has been activated on several shopper profiles. Only taking pick-up shops hurts our program as a whole. The ratio should be a minimum of 1 in-store shop to 1 pick-up shop, but it is fine for shoppers to take an abundance of in-store shops. If this happened to you, please make sure you are performing in-store shops, and then notify me after you have performed some of them, so I can try to have this changed for you."

@gladysfarfel wrote:

Hi guys. I have been doing Kroger shops for quite a while, and I have never received any memo about a 1 to 1 ratio. Where can I find it? Thx

Missed the shops again! Second month in a row! I would’ve been ok with a couple of pickups and a few in store and one fuel lol! This really sucks but I saw how some others mentioned looking after the last round so maybe better luck next time

Blk,
I start looking twice per day starting 3 days after I finish the last shop i have scheduled. And more often after there are no more open Kroger shops on the page. I was probably only an hour or maybe 2 hours late this month, because I was sick and not sitting at my desk. As it happens, I was supposed to be out working also that day, but my body had other plans. So if I had been out, it could have been much worse. But I got all my usual shops, but if there were any competitor shops, I missed those.

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