@non sequitur wrote:
PS: I didn't order beans the second time, because I realized there was no way to prove I hadn't anyway - it's not on the receipt of visible in the pictures.
I did see my bean choice on the online order email receipt, but if your shop was approved that's useful to know as we seem to have a few non-bean eating forum members!
I have some encountered some shockingly dirty
Yeah, still just pizza and burgers this weekend. I'd rather save my cancellations from when I really need them so I'm just going to order a pizza, take the photos, and drop it off with a family member who is always eager for an easy free meal to feed her daughter. I'll take home the desserts!
This seems to be a regional project. In Chicago last weekend I saw scores of them and some of the outlets being shopped were regional chains I'd never even heard of. I haven't seen any here in Boston.
The guidelines were just updated again today and alas the required pizza places remain the same, along with the ordering requirement:
Minimum Ordering Requirements:
FAST CASUAL / FAST FINE LUNCH and DINNER:
*You are required to place your order ONLY from the restaurants listed above.
Burgers and/or Pizzas (Please order different items if dining with a guest.)
Beverage of your choice.
If it is not AI-generated what is the source? Are you aware that if you Google a question the first result will be an AI-generated answer whose accuracy can vary greatly?
That reads like some AI-generated answer. It's not a law, and you have no idea what the phone company's internal policies are, nor should they be of any concern to you. There's some excellent advice here on how to conduct these shops in a manner that seems natural. Does this shop actually entail asking an employee 44 different questions, or are there 44 questions on the survey regarding things th
This was a nice way to try some new places while on the road over the weekend. Some of the places included are regional fast casual chains where the food is healthier and more interesting than the usual fast food joints.
I asked and was told that the entire order has to be for the pizza places. I argued that it should be removed without penalty because it wasn't what I signed up for, but I was just told to self-unassign. I'd rather use my three cancellations for times when I actually can't make a shop, so I'll just bring the pizza into work where someone will eat it.
@FeelinSassie wrote:
As I interpret the gui
My April payouts were all sent over the weekend. If you don't get them today I'd reach out to the accounting email. That department is usually quite responsive and helpful.
For a few years I was doing a solid five of these a week, but since the pay dropped and other opportunities came up it's been about 18 months since I've done one.
I've never had someone not wearing gloves, and I've also never had someone go against the uniform guidelines by creating their own name tag! I kind of chuckle every time I see that option.
I picked one up. It looks like the required order (three+ topping pizza and drink) is going to run $18.49 plus tip, so the gift card will cover any future shop, but it's not like doing a BJs bar shop where you can spend $30 and get a $65 gift card. It's nice to see that I won't be required to get the names of multiple employees or more timings than the order time and delivery time.
Mellifluy writes:
"How do you know you still keep the shop? Doesn't unassign count against you and another shopper could potentially assign the shop to themselves? I get that message if I want a shop and need a different date (not self assign)."
As Soonerself said this is not intuitive but it is correct. First you hit "unassign" and then you'll get an option to reschedule instead of unassigni
To the contrary, quite often the client would very much like to know how the server and manager respond to a complaint, and there's frequently a question on the survey that asks how a complaint was responded to.
Once in a blue moon the guidelines might actually say that you can't complain, but ordinarily I just go by what I would do if I were a regular customer. A tiny watermark on the knife i
I'd write to the Help Desk and ask. It's always annoying how this MSC won't show such requirements before the shop is assigned.
@jewel1233 wrote:
Just signed up for a shop, but noticed that you have to add beans to the bowl! If there is a food sensitivity to beans, is there any way to skip this ingredient, or is it likely mandatory? Wondering if I should cancel....
Well, that attempt to use the scale I bought at the airport was a bust because it turned out it's a scale that is used by strapping it to the luggage and picking it up. I'd never even heard of such a thing! Luckily we had another regular scale at work I could use. Annoyingly the online pickup order gave me someone else's bowl, so my vegetarian co-worker missed out on what he thought was going to
It's not unheard of to have "late happy hours" especially in places where they might not be a steady flow of customers at that hour.
@purpleicee wrote:
Never had a Happy Hour that started at 9:00 p.m.
Since one order is online pick-up and the other is to-go I just measured the bowls at home. I guess you'd only need one in the car if you were out for the day and wanted to eat the food before you got home.
But, as it happens, today I was doing the airport I shop and I noticed they had a digital scale at the headphones/electronics store. It was marketed for flyers who need to weight their lugg
So my very high offer got accepted for one location, and then promptly rejected for the two that are left! It's on a day where I'm going into a part-time job I have in a small home office, so I'm going to see if either my boss or the other co-worker want one of the bowls for their lunch.
You were clearly in the right and should be paid/reimbursed. Obviously hindsight is 20/20 but sometimes in these scenarios I take photos that meet both criteria and upload them if there's space or if not hold onto them in case I get pushback.
A follow-up: My report with the scale photos showing pounds and ounces which I translated into total ounces in the survey was accepted. There are a bunch left (including some other suburban locations I hadn't noticed before) and the fee has gone from zero to $5 or "make an offer." I got so much Chipotle from my first shop that I'm not super eager to do another round unless there's a cash incentiv
Yeah, there are seven left -- and they're all dinner shops, so it's interesting that you scored a lunch one.
The report certainly wasn't hard, but they did require the measurement in ounces and my scale only has a setting for pounds plus ounces if it is above one pound (which both bowls were). I just converted it into ounces for the survey, but hopefully that won't caused any issue with the re
A few days ago a number of Chipotle shops popped up in my city on the Five Guys MSC. There are a bunch but they are concentrated here in the city and don't really extend out to the 'burbs. There's another similar cluster in another city about an hour from here, but again nothing out of the immediate urban area.
The shop requires an online purchase of a burrito bowl (any protein and non-premiu
BTW Chipotle just popped up on the Five Guys MSC. You have to have a food scale to weigh two bowls: One that you buy online and one that you buy there.
Hopefully it will return, but right now I'm sure missing the Chrysler oil change shops. I married a Jeep owner in 2019 and last week was the first time we've ever had to pay for an oil change for that car.
Megabus was great. I essentially went back and forth between to NYC and other cities for years doing it. Even though they only paid 50%, the Southwest ones conducted by the same MSC were pr
@shopperbob wrote:
This as a classic example of the Arab/camel business model.
I of course understand the context of this favorite ShopperBobism, but I tried Googling it and got nothing beyond some prospective camel ride tours in the UAE. (Which may well be shopped!)
@shopperbob can you tell me a bit more about what it means?
Their official working hours are M-F. That being said, I have had last-minute applications approved on the weekends, but there's no guarantee. They have a variety of schedulers so they might be in different time zones.