No Fee Shops - ACL - A Closer Look

CanadaMommy, 25 active companies keeps me as busy as I am interested in being. Perhaps you live somewhere with few jobs or you shop full time but not everyone does. Some of my companies have 15 pages with 50 jobs on each every month that are all within 10 miles of my house. Bonuses are rare but have been better during the pandemic.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/05/2022 05:10AM by Ideagirl.

To each his own,
I prefer to have many options , my plate is also full but you never know when something drops.
Been doing this for many enough years to know the trend, good,luck

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CanadaMommy, 25 active companies keeps me as busy as I am interested in being. Perhaps you live somewhere with few jobs or you shop full time but not everyone does. Some of my companies have 15 pages with 50 jobs on each every month that are all within 10 miles of my house. Bonuses are rare but have been better during the pandemic.

I do one for them regularly that is reimbursement only, because I can take the kids for a night of bowling and laser tag, plus dinner and a beer for me. I did a hotel shop for them that had a $40 payment but that is the first time I'd seen them add anything above reimbursement.

No fee shops does not work now, especially with inflating gas prices: over $4.50 in my area, and this is at Costco gas, a discounted place. Not only does ACL not pay a fee, their reimbursement and order requirements are the tightest in all the MSC's I work for. They expect you to be happy to pay out of pocket for being able to dine at their shops.

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/18/2022 02:53AM by ShopperFun99.

In my area, a significant number of their shops don't get done every month.

They have a sandwich shop in my area (a franchisee) which has been getting $5 bonuses pretty early in the month, which was a pleasant surprise last month. But they also have a healthy food chain that never gets bonused, even at the end of the month or when I've asked. And amazingly, that shop has $5 reimbursement for mass transit or parking, which might make sense for their locations in an urban area (where most of them are), but my location is suburban and there is no way I can get there any way other than driving, and parking is free in the shopping center lot. So there's $5 listed in that shop location that they will never pay. Very frustrating.

You are frustrated you can’t get a $5 fee which you don’t need to pay to park????you don’t get bonus for long travel with but this makes you frustrated?

quote=MisterBill]
They have a sandwich shop in my area (a franchisee) which has been getting $5 bonuses pretty early in the month, which was a pleasant surprise last month. But they also have a healthy food chain that never gets bonused, even at the end of the month or when I've asked. And amazingly, that shop has $5 reimbursement for mass transit or parking, which might make sense for their locations in an urban area (where most of them are), but my location is suburban and there is no way I can get there any way other than driving, and parking is free in the shopping center lot. So there's $5 listed in that shop location that they will never pay. Very frustrating.[/quote]

How's the work load for ACL restaurants? Is it like Coyle?

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