@Texans wrote:
I agree, I think they are going to lose mystery shoppers because of this. I search for new shops every morning before I leave for the day. I have a limited amount of time. This change makes me go to other mystery shop companies first. Unless I see one of their shops posted on Jobslinger, I don’t have time to deal with their website.
I recently complained about their filters as well. I won't do fast food shops. I have to scroll through hundreds of these to get to the shops that I am interested in. Too much wasted time for me.
With some who are thinking about getting a regular 9 to 5 and ditching mystery shopping, this may be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
But I think what you’ll see more often than that are the rural shops going unclaimed more often. I’m in Texas and, in case you don’t know, we have 3 major cities that are sort of in a triangle. Houston to the southeast, San Antonio to the southwest and almost at a midpoint well north of them is Dallas about 260 miles from both other cities who are 200 miles apart from one another. If you do a 100 mile radius search of all three, you are going to miss pretty much everything from College Station north to Waxahatchie which is south of Dallas. There are lots of small towns with the red button drive ins in that area. But you’ll also exclude a city like Waco--150,000 people.
So for travelers who are willing to set up a list of central zip-codes whose radius will cover the territory they are shopping, it may end up being a blessing in disguise because not everyone will do that.