Right. And until the middle of last month I hadn't done any shops for MF this year. If this is a current practice, June must have been the first month it was a policy.
My guess is someone told the OP that they run the program that deactivates shoppers on the 3rd of every month and they thought that meant you had to have worked for them in the past month.
There are reasons that a body stays in motion
At the moment only demons come to mind