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Any hints on who shops them?
TIA

Joan
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Its a company who has been working with them for a while on other projects.

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I forgot the company, but I shopped of couple of Whole Foods last year and it took me about 3 or 4 months to get my pay.

This company pays quickly.

Is it a msp that goes by 3 initials and starts with a S? I see pricing surveys on their site....Any regular shops of the store?

Joan
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/23/2009 05:38PM by JoanG.

Nope. Another one.

dee shops Wrote:
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> Nope. Another one.
Is it a Texas based msp that is a "group?"....With no vowels in the name?LOL

Joan
Independent Scheduler

Nope. :-) Its in San Diego.

dee shops Wrote:
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> Nope. :-) Its in San Diego.
They must be shopped by more than one msp then.

I know the one you're referring to, but I've not done shops for them cuz all I get in my inbox are requests for Hispanic shoppers. Thanks, though!

Joan
Independent Scheduler

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/23/2009 07:44PM by JoanG.

Their food is so overpriced that you would lose money shopping them

Not everything there is overpriced. But it is referred to as "Whole Paycheck" for a reason.

Ok, I give up. Who is it? I go there regularly, but have never been offered any shops. I do the Shushi shops now and then, is that what you are talking about??

To tell would negate my ICA with the company.

You can hint, dee, but I've forgotten the MSP. And yes, Susan, they do the sushi dept. I think you buy one to eat there and one to take home.

I already hinted as much as I was comfortable doing much earlier in this thread.

They are currently subject to competitor shops in some areas.

Is it just the Shushi shops though? That's not actually shopping for Whole Foods. It's a subcontracted company called Genji Express which provides sushi to natural markets like Whole Foods.

If the actual store Whole Foods is shopped I need to get me on that thar wagon!

No, it is not just sushi.

There must be more than one MSP handling them. I just finished a WF shop last week and have another week after next. The company shopping them here is located in San Antonio. They pay fast. I love doing the shops. The food is expensive, but it's such a cool place to shop, and there is no requirement to purchase a certain number of items - so you could purchase just one item. The reimbursable amount is also higher than some of the other grocery shops. The company provides a great "shopping list" that you use to make your shop notes on. I do grocery shopos for 2 other MSPs but this is my favorite. I would do more for them if I could.

There is more than one MSC shopping them. The reimbursement on the one shopping the store in my area is higher, and the pay lower, than other grocery stores I shop (the others pay $14-20 with reimbursements of $7 to $10. This one comes to less $ in total that the other grocery stores here. But the form and the shop are super easy.

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/11/2009 07:42PM by dee shops.

Wow! Wish I was shopping where you are. Most of the other grocery shops require a purchase of 10 items and reimburse $6 (hard to buy 10 items for $6) and pay $5. The WF shop reimburses $10 with no required # of items and pays $7 or $8.

my wf pays 5 but reimburses 12-no specific items to purchase.

Can you email me the company site. I would like to see if there are any shops in my state.

AustinMom Wrote:
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> Wow! Wish I was shopping where you are. Most of
> the other grocery shops require a purchase of 10
> items and reimburse $6 (hard to buy 10 items for
> $6) and pay $5. The WF shop reimburses $10 with
> no required # of items and pays $7 or $8.

Hmmm, you can't even buy 10 different packs of gum or candy for $6 last time I looked. Usually when I have just a little bit of money left on my purchase requirement or to max out my reimbursement I head for the rice aisle and pick up a small package of "Yellow Rice Dinner". Those make a splendid base for a "leftovers paella" or a paella made from small required purchases in seafood. The small packages in my market run 3/$1 or 39 cents ea. depending on the brand. On a $10 reimbursement I used to get 6-7 items. These days I'm lucky if it is 4-5.

NO, Sella, I cannot email the name of the company. That would violate my ICA.

Stella, I would like to be able to but can't because of the confidentiality. Longtimers, I'm still a newbie, help me be sure I understand. It's my understanding that, on this forum, it is okay for us to mention an MSP and say they have food shops but we cannot say the names of the client companies. If we say the name of a client company, we cannot say the name of the MSP who shops them. We can't put the two together. Am I right? What if Stella started a thread asking what companies do food shops? Shoppers could answer with MSPs that do food shops but when we gave her names of MSPs who do food shops we could not say the client food company's name?

The standard is that the client name and the MSP name should not be mentioned in the same thread and definitely not in nearby posts. So, in this case, since the client name is the name of the thread, ideally none of the companies that shop this client would be mentioned, even in reference to something else (and threads do tend to degenerate to other questions).

Ok, still trying to figure out who this company is. I have Googled many a phrases and am still coming up empty except for one company. Is this one big MSP company that onws a bunch of smaller MSP companies? (And is subsequently is one that I don't like)

The Whole Foods I see is not with that one. But then I see competitor shops.

Mine is actually FOR WF, and not a competitor. I haven't seen a competitor shop for them here, yet, but they've been open only 6 months in a tough economy...

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