Grocery store shops $20 pay, $2 reimbursement question

Just got an email with several stores (I think Fresh Market based on addresses) needing to be done this week. Info says $2 purchase (joke, imo, but whatever, as you also get) $20 pay. Have to download an app and be in the store 45 minutes gathering data for them via the app. I have been burned more than once with the time estimate MSC give, and what they describe as “easy shop!” I don’t always agree with. Anyone accept one of them and can give me some more deets? TIA

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Is this the smart msc and you are to walk around answering survey questions about what you see? I did a bunch of those last summer but not until they got bonused. I did the first at $20 and vowed never again. But they offered enough bonus that I went ahead and did more. 45 minutes was attainable but not in a larger store and certainly not until you knew what to look for. The survey was written so you'd have to go back and and forth a lot if you didn't know what would be asked later.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/01/2025 09:46PM by Deedeezthoughts.
Hi Tiffany! Not sure where you're from, but with that limited amount for a reimbursement (I hate it when that happens!), I would buy a couple of bananas or a pack of gum (lol!). I hope I helped you a little.
that sounds like the price check shops. I'm going to suggest that you use your 10 ft pole option. You're more likely to get kicked out of the store than actually paid for the job. YMMV
@Morledzep wrote:

that sounds like the price check shops. I'm going to suggest that you use your 10 ft pole option. You're more likely to get kicked out of the store than actually paid for the job. YMMV
I didn't think there was a purchase required for the price check shops. But, ITA about avoiding those.
Dee,

They started adding the purchase requirement shortly after they forked me out of pay for several shops because I got kicked out. They thought that spending 45 minutes in the store to buy a $2 item would make them less suspicious, but I don't agree. I was kicked out of a store with a shopping cart full of stuff that I was going to buy, like nearly $50 worth of groceries. I left the cart where it was and walked out.
@Morledzep wrote:

Dee,

They started adding the purchase requirement shortly after they forked me out of pay for several shops because I got kicked out. They thought that spending 45 minutes in the store to buy a $2 item would make them less suspicious, but I don't agree. I was kicked out of a store with a shopping cart full of stuff that I was going to buy, like nearly $50 worth of groceries. I left the cart where it was and walked out.
I didn't get kicked but I wondered if I might when doing the surveys. My behavior was sketchy enough to have security hang out with me at least once. I made eye contact and smiled at him then went back to messing with my phone. He was looking for shoplifting, not survey questions, and only showed up because I spent too long in the cosmetics aisle. But those surveys could be completed without touching any products. I'd stick to the center of the aisle and I mostly kept moving. Anything where you have to scan a bunch of barcodes is over the line for me because there is no good explanation for why you are doing that.
I don't know these shops. Just a note about scanning.

People on Weights Watchers scan many food items, and then don't buy them. They are checking how many WW points they are.

Just a potential excuse for scanning food items

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