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January 31, 2024 01:08AM

I signed in to the MSC website yesterday, and again today, at about the time of day that the shops are normally posted. But I never saw anything posted at all. Just one leftover shop that's too far to drive to from here in the next state.

I do know that for the last several months when they post the new shops the website has shut down from the traffic overload. They may have been trying to test to see if the website can handle it this round.

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January 31, 2024 01:22AM

@ServiceAward wrote:

@Lissymaree wrote:

Did anyone see the Kroger shops posted yesterday and then disappear? I saw around 300 and signed up for 5 then they all disappeared. They haven’t showed back up but I still have the 5 I requested in my assignment dashboard number. They were only the in store shops no pickups. Just wasn’t sure if anyone saw this?

I know someone who saw an in-store shop in Gigspot yesterday. I thought they were mistaken, because I looked on the website and did not see any. Now, I'm wondering if he was correct?

I also happened to see some "ghost" shops on gigspot. I feel like I've seem them before and didn't really think too much of it. Maybe it was a test before the "feeding frenzy" sigh.

January 31, 2024 04:50AM

I just signed onto the regular site as I don’t use GigSpot anymore. Possibly I signed in and got some when they were testing the site as mentioned above. I just thought I’d check with others to see because when they first drop sometimes I have had issues with getting kicked out etc but can get back in after a few minutes and this time I’m still not seeing them. I think they will drop tomorrow like they had said so no idea what happened there lol. Thanks everyone for your 2 cents!

January 31, 2024 05:43PM

waiting for those krogers today. I am in the central time zone and it is 11:43 here and waiting.

January 31, 2024 06:21PM

10:20 AM Pacific Time. I grabbed several.

January 31, 2024 06:27PM

I got the fuels, but there weren't any pickups in my area. -grumps-

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

January 31, 2024 06:28PM

Well, at least you got fuels. We don't have those here. Who knows? Pickups may be posted later.

January 31, 2024 06:30PM

No fuels or pickups yet in my area. waiting. they come up after the in store shops. I think they drop at different times in different parts of the country, maybe.

January 31, 2024 06:37PM

East Coast here, and it’s only in-store and fuel so far. Pickups usually pop up about an hour after the rest.

January 31, 2024 06:38PM

12:01 Central I loaded up on my max for in store locals as well as competitors. I noticed that the orphan locations that are a bit of a drive for anybody are already in the bonus.
New questions regarding stock levels of eggs and yogurt.

January 31, 2024 06:38PM

Texas here and no fuels yet or pick up shops! How many shops do you all take. I have 11 for in store right now and staying with that.

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January 31, 2024 06:45PM

I noticed they've added eggs and yogurt to the in-store but, alas, no pay increase.

January 31, 2024 06:48PM

They did add checks for the eggs and yogurt, but I don't see the random aisle check that we did the past two months.

January 31, 2024 07:02PM

Strange, for me usually I see 300-400 krogers posted but this time it’s was just 43. No fuel, just in store. Only three in my local area, the rest are 25-45 miles away. Absolutely nothing in any of the surrounding towns which is really strange as there are three towns around mine that have always had shops available.

January 31, 2024 07:06PM

I also didn't experience any slowdown with the website at all. No pickups, no competitor shops....

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

January 31, 2024 07:09PM

Now they are showing as 137 pick ups but the app and webpage keep crashing and then saying no shops in my area. Not sure what’s going on with it but doesn’t look like I’m going to get much this time

January 31, 2024 07:11PM

11:10 AM Pacific Time. I just grabbed my max of competitor pickups. The website started acting up near the end.

January 31, 2024 07:27PM

I want competitor shops..

Pickups and competitor shops don't load at the same time as the inside and fuel shops. And the website IS running much smoother. It only started getting slow after they added the pickup shops. And sometimes I had to refresh the page and sign back in to get my dashboard to reload. But I got all of the shops I wanted.. I think.

January 31, 2024 07:30PM

1:00 Central time, the Pickups posted. The site kept hiccupping and I was only able to claim 7 of the 9 I had targeted, others beat me to the location or date range, but that's okay. I got two locals and five route locations for towns I'm visiting in Feb for personal reasons... makes the drive a business expense and plus I get a load of groceries!

January 31, 2024 07:34PM

Agree, the website is lagging big time. It kept asking me to sign certifications multiple times.

January 31, 2024 07:42PM

Managed to get my three favorite pickups and two Kroger, but now the site is totally bogged down and may not get the last pickup. I was a few minutes late and several of the in-stores that I would have taken were already not available. At least our scheduler gave us the posting times.

Fortunately I did two jobs in January so guess that's why I'm still on her email list.

January 31, 2024 07:45PM

Congrats! May I suggest that you DON'T reload next time? As you pointed out, refreshing the page means you have to sign back in. I don't know if it works for everyone but I just click on one of the other things on the page. Then, I go the the Map page and then the List page of the job listings. For some reason, if the shops don't load in map view, they won't load in list view.

@Morledzep wrote:

I want competitor shops..

Pickups and competitor shops don't load at the same time as the inside and fuel shops. And the website IS running much smoother. It only started getting slow after they added the pickup shops. And sometimes I had to refresh the page and sign back in to get my dashboard to reload. But I got all of the shops I wanted.. I think.

January 31, 2024 08:06PM

I’m still not seeing any pickup shops in Ohio those are my favorite. I was able to get several in store.

January 31, 2024 08:08PM

Well, I managed two pickup shops then somebody else got the rest. Oh well.

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

January 31, 2024 08:12PM

I managed to snag one more pickup, giving me an equal number of pickups and instores including some nice competitor pickups which we haven't had for a while. Hoping that I did it right. There seem to be a lot of lingering competitor pickups in our area, maybe people didn't take their usual quantity of instores, whether due to the new requirements, restrictions on same day instore and pickup, or website bugs.

Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/31/2024 08:15PM by melg.

January 31, 2024 08:15PM

No pickup shops for me in Kentucky.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/31/2024 08:16PM by robin1321.

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