E/M: 2024 Lighting Audit/Site Experience 2024

What was the benefit of breaking the audits into two separate shops? The note in Presto says you can do both, just not with duplicate pictures. Is there more money to be had now doing both, or was the fee higher when they were rolled into one?

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@drdoggie00 wrote:

What was the benefit of breaking the audits into two separate shops? The note in Presto says you can do both, just not with duplicate pictures. Is there more money to be had now doing both, or was the fee higher when they were rolled into one?

Unlike the site experience audit, the lighting audit must be done during hours of darkness. Although some lighting elements are a part of the site experience audit, not all of them are. For example, you cannot determine whether the canopy fascia lights are working during daylight hours. Also, if a location has their lights on a timer, none of the lights can be evaluated during site experience audits when the shopper goes during daylight hours.
Although every 6 months or so I do nighttime shops so that I can more thoroughly evaluate all the lighting elements, I doubt many shoppers purposefully do this. It appears that the lighting audit may be an annual thing, similar to how greens are done. I hope, however, it will also be a monthly thing.

It is definitely more money for the shopper and for very little extra work. What I plan to do next week on my local route is to start around 1PM so that when I get to my furthest location I arrive when it is dark. Then, as I work my way back, stop by each location again to do the lighting audit. This way I don't have to be out as late and I can get all the locations done before they close.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/29/2023 07:28PM by ServiceAward.

More money to be had now. Less work on the main inspections and extra money for the lighting inspections. (If we ignore the fact we can only schedule 24 hours in advance now )

@mystery2me wrote:

More money to be had now. Less work on the main inspections and extra money for the lighting inspections. (If we ignore the fact we can only schedule 24 hours in advance now )

Oh, that's right....kind of throws a kink into planning a route in advance.

I hate Presto, but I think the big "I" will eventually abandon Sassie and move everything over to the walrus/beaver/whatever animal it is.

If your path dictates you walk through hell, do it as though you own the place. -unknown

@drdoggie00 wrote:

@mystery2me wrote:

More money to be had now. Less work on the main inspections and extra money for the lighting inspections. (If we ignore the fact we can only schedule 24 hours in advance now )
Oh, that's right....kind of throws a kink into planning a route in advance.
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It's more difficult, yes, but not impossible. I was able to do it in July. One thing is, just as you and a couple of others in another thread have shown, there is hesitancy on the part of shoppers to even accept the jobs. That works in favor to people like myself who have no qualms about stringing together a few non-E/M shops, even at a small risk of the E/M shops being gone.

Also, how much competition there is in an area plays a role, too. I have one person that I complete with locally and 30 miles west and east of me. I have another person that takes E/M shops starting at about 40 miles north of me. That's it. A lot of people are not going to want to mess with the app, especially for lower pay. If lighting elements will be done every month, then you may not have to worry about trying to do other types of shops at the same time. I can string together 10 E/M along a 60-mile northbound route and be done in 6 hours. That's over $200, even at base pay, and I get back home without homework to do.

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/29/2023 09:50PM by ServiceAward.

Different areas have different trigger points. Once the fee reaches a certain level, shoppers begin grabbing as many as they can schedule, grabbing more as soon as new dates open up. I can imagine with a 24-hour window, shoppers will finish one and immediately schedule another for the next day with two or more shoppers scrambling for the same shops in a way that sends all of them all over the map instead of being able to group them more logically.

Normally the lighting is checked at night only once a year on each brand. They used to offer darkness incentives for shops that hadn't yet been done at night for that year. Or make them darkness only at the end of the year.

I'm the person that has just been taking the lighting shops and not the site shops because it's cold here and I don't want to be out inspecting everything at night. The lighting shops I can get done in just a few minutes and barely if ever have to get out of the car. I'll see if any of the site shops go up in price, previously I'd get a lot more than they are listed for now.

@nellybean212 wrote:

I'm the person that has just been taking the lighting shops and not the site shops because it's cold here and I don't want to be out inspecting everything at night. The lighting shops I can get done in just a few minutes and barely if ever have to get out of the car. I'll see if any of the site shops go up in price, previously I'd get a lot more than they are listed for now.

I've done a couple of just lighting audits and I did not have to get out of the car either. I am going to try to head out and do about 8 tonight.

Both projects now seem to be giving 120 hours for completion. Math. Great. *eyeroll*

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