@guysmom wrote:
I do the grocery shops for them. In my area, the time during the weekdays is now limited to between 4-8 pm, and weekends 12-6 pm, so the amount of shops you can do for them in a day will be limited. Not only that, in my area, they now tell you what days you can do the shops....we used to be able to schedule them to our liking within a several week framework, but that has changed. However, I will say that if you call and ask to reschedule your dates so that you can do several in a day, especially if they are close to one another, they are pretty good about rescheduling them for you. Which is handy, because now, the allowable schedule dates, for example, for Store A would be one day, and Store B, a mile away, would be another, which is crazy!! So if you are interested and get assigned, they will help with the scheduling if you call them. Once you do a few, you can self-assign.
@shoptastic wrote:
Those are the exact stipulations in my area too, guysmom!
We might even be shopper competitors. lol
Just curious, don't you have to ask them questions? If you know the workers so well, how do they not wonder when you ask them these questions?@Irene_L.A. wrote:
I only do weekends, Sunday at noon is better than weekdays at four. My shops are 3 to 4 miles, so no traffic problems. I'm not understanding you, did you say you did five jobs but cannot get more, if so why? Reports and questions seem rough, but you get used to it, and it goes quickly, don't over think it. My last one on Sunday, going into Produce, the employee see's me and says, "Hi gorgeous, how ya doing", well hi back at ya!!
They see me so often, feels like my family, and the grocery associate told me about a great sale for Fathers Day...$1.79 for a case (24 bottles) of water, how doesn't this work?
@Alter_Ego wrote:
I'd do them all the time if it weren't for the specific questions. Did that change? I love The Source for other shops, but I stopped doing grocery stores when they told me the employees had spotted me as a shopper due to the assigned questions I had asked.
@guysmom wrote:
As far as the questions required for the grocery shops.....at least the instructions in my area for my particular chain.....if you read the instructions carefully enough, you will notice that they say these questions are EXAMPLES ONLY.....we are allowed to come up with our OWN questions as long as they result in getting some sort of recommendation. The instructions may be different with different grocery chains, or in different areas of the country. But it makes it easier to get recommendations when I can come up with my own questions month after month!!
@Traveliz wrote:
Yes definitely not examples in mine either...on the drop down list I have to click which question I used and there is no spot to make up my own. For other MSCs, I do have that luxury but not for the ones I do for Trendsouce.
Liz
I don't want to give my exact location, but we're not close. But I AM on the East Coast, however. So maybe we have similar grocery stores. I know when I lived out West that we had some stores you don't see here and vice versa that are the main/popular grocery stores locally.@guysmom wrote:
I'm in SC.@shoptastic wrote:
Those are the exact stipulations in my area too, guysmom!
We might even be shopper competitors. lol
@LeslieKay111 wrote:
I noticed that there is the mention of the MSC and then a number of clients. This may possibly be a forum violation. I've noticed a number of them this morning.
@Irene_L.A. wrote:
I got emails for the new jobs and picked up four, two groceries and two Business Verification by self-assign....
Took me a long time to self-assign the Business Verifications, but now I can. They are with Targets, and I always make the appt. ASAP...they need these appts. done within 48 hours. Lots of work, but decent pay,
still could be more, I never get a pad....
@shoptastic wrote:
@Irene_L.A. wrote:
I got emails for the new jobs and picked up four, two groceries and two Business Verification by self-assign....
Took me a long time to self-assign the Business Verifications, but now I can. They are with Targets, and I always make the appt. ASAP...they need these appts. done within 48 hours. Lots of work, but decent pay,
still could be more, I never get a pad....
Uh oh. Looks like you mentioned a client, Irene.
Seems like everyone is forgetting in this thread.