Hey I don't if this was talked about before, but why does IPSOS schedulers take so long in giving shops. I have sent schedulers emails in advance about a few shops I wanted to add to a route on specific days. If the schedulers do give me the shops it's way past the days I asked for and sometimes on the last day of the shop date range. What gives?
I applied for a set of three shops that were to be done starting Monday this past week with the last day being today...a half day but I am cooking all day anyway. I even sent a follow up email to the scheduler on Tuesday saying that part of the open week was already gone. Finally I got the jobs assigned late Wednesday. Fortunately I was able to go on Thursday but this is so unlike this company who are usually more on top of things. I have also noticed that instead of all my scheduler emails coming from a summit scheduling email address I am starting to get emails from an ipsos address. These are for the shopmetrics side. So I am wondering if they are transitioning into in house schedulers.
No, she schedules in my area but these were the extremely rare shops with a bonus of double the normal fee so these really needed to be done. The bonus had gone up twice already and these shops were in a less desirable part of town, although it turned out great because one had a Superior market in the same lot so instead of reading the newspaper while I waited out my 30 minutes I could go in and buy my cilantro for 33c a bunch and other wonderful deals.
Mine is waiting for someone to offer her a cheaper rate for the leftovers. From experience, it's not going to happen :-). Typically, however, she is a lot more responsive when I email her directly rather than apply on the site.
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I just posted that Ipsos has acquired Maritz. Trying not to panic.
IPSOS did not acquire Martiz. They only acquired Maritz' mystery shopping business. For both firms, mystery shopping is a very small part of their operations.
My experience with Celeste has been tremendous. HazMat Amy, not so much. I told her I was going on a route that’s about 100 miles from me and I could do a shop there that’s been sitting a while. I didn’t hear back from her until after I’d already left on the route...two days later.
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