Maritz New Gas Station Limits

March 03, 2017 06:59PM

Yeah you are right, but I hopefully won't be losing any of mine, just going to try and space them out throughout the first two weeks of the month. Time to start looking for some new shops, or maybe it's just time for me to go back to nursing

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March 03, 2017 07:16PM

Why wouldn't you go back to nursing? It pays a lot more money than MS'ing.

March 03, 2017 07:39PM

I think this is clearly the client concerned that concentration, efficiency and accuracy is put at risk during the second half of a 16 or 19 hour day. And the client would rather have two fresh, alert shoppers doing 8 jobs each than one shopper pushing to complete 16 jobs in 16 hours.

For what it is worth, the Maritz manual says the shop should take around 30-45 minutes to complete. Not a minimum of 45 minutes. I'm in agreement with those who say it takes 20-30 minutes per shop. I'm also in agreement that you get into a rhythm by doing repetitive shops. And to those of you who can do 20 shops per day, working 16 or more hours plus debriefing and do it 3 or 4 days in a row, you have my admiration. However, I don't think the client, who makes the rules, thinks it a workable plan.

March 03, 2017 09:38PM

@LIJake
This is what is in the manual:
Evaluations are expected to take
between 45 – 60 minutes. However, your first time completing this evaluation should take you closer to 60 – 90 minutes
to accurately familiarize yourself with the location and pay careful attention to evaluating the details. Any evaluation
taking less than 30 minutes will not be accepted for compensation. Any evaluation taking between 30 – 45 minutes will
be carefully scrutinized by MaritzCX.

I have done 40 minutes for small stores with no hot food and been asked why. I can explain it though.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/03/2017 09:39PM by pegleg2000.

March 03, 2017 10:25PM

@pegleg2000, I think you might be quoting guidelines for a different brand of gas station. The OP referenced the color blue. I think you may be talking about the color yellow.

March 03, 2017 10:53PM

@Sybil2 yes I am still talking about blue. Thanks. Yellow is about 30 minutes. I never get offered any in my area, I get offered ones that are a long distance from me. I use to love doing the yellow ones.

March 03, 2017 10:55PM

I think we are talking about 3 different shops. The blue shop with pictures of each pump says 30-45 minutes and is being done in 20-30. I can't find suggested minutes for the yellow shop. I think pegleg is referencing the $21 blue shop which I have never seen. Must be a regional thing.

March 04, 2017 04:57AM

Pegleg is talking about a different company/brand than the one mentioned by the OP. Only those who choose auditing rather than MSing get to do the $21 shop.

March 05, 2017 02:35AM

I have not done a gas station shop yet. It sounds like if I choose an audit shop at Maritz, I will never see the MS ones. Any opinion on which is preferable?

March 06, 2017 10:06AM

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, MaritzCX is losing lots of their clients. Trouble times ahead.

March 12, 2017 02:15AM

@Bernie57 wrote:

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, MaritzCX is losing lots of their clients. Trouble times ahead.

I heard that too.

March 12, 2017 02:25AM

Perhaps they will go to companies that are easy to work with.

There are reasons that a body stays in motion
At the moment only demons come to mind

March 12, 2017 04:12AM

It would be sooo sweet if I could schedule 60 shops a month!!! Holy oily forecourt...!

March 12, 2017 04:16AM

The field work is a breeze for me, but the reporting is just pure labor.

April 03, 2017 05:17PM

I just dropped 3 of their gas station shops. I saw it included over 60 pages of instructions. Not worth my time.

April 04, 2017 12:22PM

@johnb974 wrote:

I just dropped 3 of their gas station shops. I saw it included over 60 pages of instructions. Not worth my time.

As I've said before, there are tools on their website to make reporting and shopping easier. I'll not explain them as I believe this sort of thing should be part of the shopper's education.

BTW, I have found the reporting for the blue gas stations are much faster than the last quarter's.

Can you guess why?

April 04, 2017 01:56PM

If you know of tools others can use, please share them. I always share ideas with other, to save them time.

April 04, 2017 05:49PM

Maybe the issue is that you have been overlooking the finer points of the assignments. Timing it out:
Mystery Shop: Pump gas, get a receipt. Walk the station, checking shelves, coolers, cleanliness, check the bathroom. Purchase item, do customer service at the counter. Return to the car, do beginning paperwork. = 10-15 minutes.
Reveal: Walk back inside, present LOA, Start taking your photos, of the employee, counter, bathroom, then out to the pumps. That is another 15-20 minutes.
Are you catching the dirty bathrooms, rusty MID, pumps, coolers? Or are all your reports the same status quo?
The minimum per station is 30-45 min, and that doesn't include the filing of the report.
I usually take 45-hour per station and then another 30 min to file. And then consider the closest station to my home is 14 miles. Maybe I need to go where you are so I can do 20 a day. I usually have 30-45 minute drives between locations.

Shopping Southern Georgia, Valdosta, Waycross, Quitman, Thomasville and North Central Florida I-10 & I-75.

April 04, 2017 08:58PM

Way too much work for what they want to pay. Around here they pay around $15 for one shop.

April 05, 2017 12:21AM

Kanus! You must be on welfare.....I think you are making less than $3 an hour! Ha!

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