We can make an educated guess based on the bonuses and the timing.
I think it has more to do with when the last 10%-ish shops will be done, and not if.
I’m quite sure that some contracts changed in that regard as of January. It seems that both the yellow and the blue (by blues I mean ones with either monthly or quarterly, all have mystery and then reveal; the brand has red stations too that come first in the name) now don’t have 100% completion rates by the end of the month/quarter. It seems like it’s around 90% done by the end of the month/quarter, then maybe 8% within two weeks. The remaining ~2% seem like they can get done whenever. And the yellows had M1,M2, M3 which they still do but they don’t mind doing a bunch of M1’s at the end of the quarter.
So it seems that for these brands, gone forever (or the duration of the current contract) are the days of paying $200 for the last stragglers of the month/quarter, and possibly gone are the days of paying $60, or at least offering $60: they require us to grovel for the $60.
OTOH, it seems that the other blues (one project revealed one project pure mystery as long as the cashier is in uniform) and the green on the app still have their hard deadlines (tho this past quarter, it was hard to tell with the greens since they were done so quickly, sob).
There’s a brand in shopmetrics that I’m not as familiar with but looks like they never had hard deadlines even before January 2022.
It seems that Ipsos has two kinds of shoppers they want working: Route shoppers that they favor and who will also work for less than other route shoppers, and newbies (and desperados). The newbies and hungry will work for base pay or a bit above and clear a lot off the board that way, though there will be flakes etc. The route shoppers will clear a bunch off the board without much, or any, scheduler time. Experienced shoppers who may do a lot each month but not in the form of an official route (and wait until the bonuses are perhaps $12.50 and up) and route shoppers who require more pay, aren’t favored, etc., are out.
@ColoKate63 wrote:
We are at a disadvantage when negotiating bonuses because we don’t know what the clients want.
Some energy companies want 100% completion every location, every quarter. (That gives us an advantage.)
Other clients have widely varying completion rates; I’ve heard everything from 90-98% of locations. From what I’ve heard, 95% is standard. So a client may very well be willing to let 1 of 20 locations go unexamined for 3-6 months. That puts us at a disadvantage.