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Grocery store photo audits

February 02, 2026 06:31PM
Has anyone done these from the Customer Impact MSC?
I cant see the guidelines without assigning/committing. Involves loading photos from "several departments" to GoSpotCheck app.
There appears to be opportunity to stack these with other grocery shops.
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February 02, 2026 06:59PM
Ive done a walgreens shop where I spent like 2 hours in the store. It was blatantly obvious what I was doing and definitely not worth the time or the fee offered.
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February 02, 2026 07:19PM
The part I could see said that it takes 10-30 minutes. I saw that and closed the window. By the time I travel there and back, that's $10 for at least an hour. If I am there for another shop, I don't want to be doing something that obvious, ya know?
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February 02, 2026 07:49PM
This post will address 2 truisms some MSCs use in their work offers.

1-Mileage, when listed and to my recollection. employs the "crow fly" manner of distance.
2-Completion time is under guesstimated.
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February 04, 2026 12:32AM
Hey, for anyone who gets approached by store personnel doing this type of job just tell them you're trying to figure out what groceries your (or mother's /grandmother's) medicare plan covers.

Some advantage plans give money on a debit card for food and/or OTC items each month. You may have seen commercials. But they don't tell you exactly what you can buy. You have to download their app and scan every item in the store that you want to buy to see if it's eligible. If you have even one ineligible item in your order the card won't work for the entire order.

It's a good ruse. I actually spend about an hour in the store scanning stuff for one of these insurance "perks" and wasn't approached. But it was Dollar General where just about everything is ignored.
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February 04, 2026 02:26AM
@shopperbob wrote:

This post will address 2 truisms some MSCs use in their work offers.

1-Mileage, when listed and to my recollection. employs the "crow fly" manner of distance.
2-Completion time is under guesstimated.

Funny, one time I asked for more money due to distance and they came back with it is only "X" amount of miles. I told them my helicopter was broke and I had to drive which doubled the miles. We have jobs in my area where if you could boat or drive across the lake their estimated miles would be somewhat accurate.

There is no reason these companies could not calculate a proper estimated driving time other than it shows how far jobs actually are.

The completion time advertised is after doing multiple jobs and knowing the ins and outs. I understand the first few take longer. I do beat the completion time estimate on many jobs but not the first couple usually.
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February 04, 2026 02:46AM
Mileage, when listed and to my recollection. employs the "crow fly" manner of distance.

To MY recollection mileage is from one zip code to the next. SO if I'm at the south of the code and shop is at the north of the next code the advertised three mile distance is really eight.
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