Why would they not accept application for expiring jobs?

For background, I completed about a dozen TY shops earlier last month at a very low rate. There were a handful that came up later in the month with pay increase and I applied for 2 of them 2 days before they expired and my application was ignored. I even emailed the CI scheduler on the day of with no reply. All my previous shops were accepted and no questions asked.
Additionally, about 1-2 weeks ago after I did the initial route of TY stores, I saw there were a few random shops including TY and others in very out of the way places with CI so I wrote to the TY scheduler and offered to do them all for a ballpark number and was also ignored. I see people complaining about TY and any merchandising jobs within certain drugstores and grocery stores and wonder why after doing all those ones I did at such a low price, why they wouldn't accept my offers? I'm not sure if they didn't like my work, or if they were trying to give them to another shopper, or what? Makes me leary of applying with that scheduler again. I see this month all the new TY shops have been snatched up and the only ones that remain are the grocery stores!

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If I remember correctly CI is one of the companies that the schedulers are actual employees, not IC's. And I believe their office may have been closed for the holidays.

With that being said there a few more things....
1. I've seen a random TY shop for 2026, but 99.9% are gone and we were told the program was ending in 2025, so any left on the board they really just didn't care.

2. With the program ending I'd bet that most of the schedulers were transferred to other projects or let go. No one was really checking email on this.
Oh! That's good to know. My first thought is always, "why don't they like me"? LOL. That does explain what the blurb was about not telling WG's that the program was ending. I had no idea what that meant but it makes sense now.
Same thing happened to me, OP. I had to email the project manager to kindly ask for her to accept my application so I can plan something. She did, but not until I emailed her. I waited for a day or so before emailing. I think it was too close to the holiday and I know when I was in school, nothing got done at that time. I am sure work could be the same.

Shopping Arkansas, Louisiana, & Mississippi.
Not the TY project, but there were two shops by me that were emailed out around noon, I applied for them within an hour of the email. Waited all afternoon to see if they got assigned, around 4:30, I emailed the scheduler, hoping I would get a response before 5 pm so I could better arrange my schedule, and didn't hear back.
They were assigned to me the next morning, but some of the other schedulers I've worked with over the years would have gotten them assigned that afternoon, especially when its a M-F, 7 AM-4 PM project....
CI sent out an email last month announcing that the Ty project was finished. They basically lost the contract. Locations were not "snatched up" this month - there are almost no locations left. They had a few posted to finish up their contractual commitments, but Ty is RIP.
I do know they were off for Holiday week. I emailed yesterday and received received a reply this morning.
I was informed many of the contracts were not renewed, and they are awaiting new ones.

Now through March is also a very slow time for retail.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/06/2026 08:13PM by SBP.
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