IPSOS - Yellow Gas Station

Did anyone else notice this line in the latest emails/listings with this round of bonused shops:

“Listen up, shoppers! Take heed of this crucial announcement: Effective immediately, this program will solely be available on iSF. Waste no time and swiftly self-assign these highly coveted shops before it's too late!”

There is no longer a scheduler email that these are coming from just the generic email.

To me it looks like, the yellow stations will have:

- no schedulers
- no bonuses since iSF assignments aren’t bonused

I haven’t seen an “official” announcement from IPSOS on just what this change will mean to anyone. Just the few lines stuck into the Sassie generated email.

Thoughts?

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/21/2023 05:06PM by Moushele.

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I received it, and I wondered about it. Wasn't sure what to make of it.

Shopping Arkansas, Louisiana, & Mississippi.

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/21/2023 08:17PM by ArkLaMissshopping.

I already see some with small bonuses. I guess they will be applied as needed, even on ISF?

Also, some of these state on the description that there will be extra questions on the survey. I'm looking through a survey and cannot find any extra questions. I guess they will pop up as I fill out the questionnaire? I hope it's not something I'd have to go back for!

ISF shops are bonused. And they already have bonuses on these shops. What won't happen, is Karen won't get assigned to them, and if you have a problem on your route you have no recourse or help available. Karen will lose money, we will lose money, and we will get no help at all from Ipsos.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/21/2023 09:23PM by Morledzep.

No Scheduler help is what is going to suck the most. I missed the Maritz schedulers when these moved to ipsos and now I know I’m going to miss these schedulers.

I imagine that all of the different gas station colors are going to move this way. It doesn’t seem like a good deal for us or the contract schedulers.

It is hard to say if it will be better or worse. Probably pros and cons on both sides.

Is this the sea crature gas station? I havent seem them posted yet for the second quarter..

Yes

Unless I'm mistaken, I believe most of these shops as well as the Blue and other gas stations have been on the I Shop First program.
Meaning of course, that for the first few weeks of the monthlies and the first few months of the quarterlies, the scheduler has no control over the shops. Afterwards, they begin to bonus and lastly, the scheduler becomes involved. Especially so for those remote sites that few wish to do.

You are not mistaken, They are in iSF. All colors of stations. The difference here is the note says they will ONLY be in iSF.

I’m trying to figure out what that will look like.

That happened.
And, some of the edited reports are coming back from: IPSOS_editor_(insert number)@ipsos.com
I received a few with different numbers inserted, so, when we talk about issues with the editing, we will have to refer to the editor by a number. LOL

That will only work for a while. It won't be long before my nemisis reveals herself by telling me i don't post the pictures in the right places and knocking off 3 points where it should have only been one.

If they don't have to get them all done, they will simply increase the fee by increments until the last day, which they already do for the most part.. If a shopper has problems needing the help of a scheduler, I assume the alternative is to let the shops fall back on the board and someone else will lilkely eventually do them, probably for a higher fee. The main issue for me would be rotations. If no one is there to assign shops for which I am on rotation, that would be bad for me in that case, but if fees go up high enough I may make it up from shops left longer on the board due to other shoppers' rotations. It all remains to be seen.

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