@FrugalCat wrote:
Can you tell me a little more about stuffed animal. replenishment? Of course without naming the MSC- you can name the client. Is this taking in a slightly worn out bear to have it fluffed, re-stuffed and cleaned? I might be interested in this for my Snuffle Bear by Gund, which has seen better days.
@Shopper1013 wrote:
I actually have a regular route of these every month. The first visit is tedious, because the diplay is sometimes a mess. But after the first visit, when i go back the next month, its not bad at all because I know I did it right to begin with. Now that i am the regular person every month, the employees see me walking in and they say "Hey Beanie Baby Lady!" and i just make myself at home, making the following visits even faster because i know where everything is and don't have to ask for permission to go in the back of the stores for the backstock. I don't do them for the initial offered amount. The MSC knows that I'll do them in the timeframe and as requested so they automatically have them set at a better price. I think I'm up to 40 on my route now. Takes me about 2 days in the bigger city close to me and then the couple in the smaller city close to me almost a day. I wouldn't suggest picking up a route of 40 to begin with though! LOL!!!
@Datagirl wrote:
@Shopper1013 wrote:
I actually have a regular route of these every month. The first visit is tedious, because the diplay is sometimes a mess. But after the first visit, when i go back the next month, its not bad at all because I know I did it right to begin with. Now that i am the regular person every month, the employees see me walking in and they say "Hey Beanie Baby Lady!" and i just make myself at home, making the following visits even faster because i know where everything is and don't have to ask for permission to go in the back of the stores for the backstock. I don't do them for the initial offered amount. The MSC knows that I'll do them in the timeframe and as requested so they automatically have them set at a better price. I think I'm up to 40 on my route now. Takes me about 2 days in the bigger city close to me and then the couple in the smaller city close to me almost a day. I wouldn't suggest picking up a route of 40 to begin with though! LOL!!!
I do a lot of work for this MSC, curious how you went about getting a route. I would prefer if i knew these stores were mine instead of cleaning up someone else's mess.
I remember being told that they frequently make you go back to the store, so be sure to only take locations within 5-10 miles of your house.@viv0412 wrote:
@FrugalCat wrote:
Can you tell me a little more about stuffed animal. replenishment? Of course without naming the MSC- you can name the client. Is this taking in a slightly worn out bear to have it fluffed, re-stuffed and cleaned? I might be interested in this for my Snuffle Bear by Gund, which has seen better days.
The client name has NOT been mentioned. The MSC is Customer Impact. There was a thread about these visits a little while ago. It was deemed a PITA and not recommended at base rate.
@Cassiespark wrote:
I just did my first batch of 8 today, and none of the stores had backstock. These were all gas station convenience stores. Is this consistent with other's experience?
Also wondering why you guys were asked to return to a store - what are the common reasons?
At $10/store these only make sense if a bunch of them are close together, as its at least 20 minutes per storre in my experience, and that was just with organizing, not putting out backstock.
@Shopper1013 wrote:
I would do a couple close to you just to make sure. The only times i have bene asked to go back was the very first time i did them and i did not do some corrcetly so it was on me. The second time was a couple of months ago when they added something to the guidelines but no where in the reporting app to really put the additional info they were asking for. Even then it was just a few that it was an issue with. I did notice that the next month they did take my suggestion and added a place for the requested info into the reporting app so after that it was not an issue.
The schedulers have always been wonderful to work with. The editor can be aggravating (in all honesty, all editors can be aggravating because their job is to critique us!) but she's just doing her job. The company has certain ways they want it done and she's just making sure its correct. Regardless, she has always been nice and polite to work with.