Lower pay for 2010

$1500 per year = $125 per month. How do you get so many grocery shops per month? How many is it? Thanks.

Jamie
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It's not possible in my area. Only one chain is still shopped here. The first nine months of 09, I could normally get 12 shops a month. Three chains have stopped mystery shopping and now I may get 2 shops a month.

Jamiesan Wrote:
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> $1500 per year = $125 per month. How do you get so
> many grocery shops per month? How many is it?
> Thanks.

Whom are you asking, Jamiesan? It would vary greatly by what they stated the shop paid.

Normally I have 5 or more. Doesn't look that way for January. :-(

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/01/2010 08:54PM by dee shops.

Jamiesan Wrote:
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> $1500 per year = $125 per month. How do you get so
> many grocery shops per month? How many is it?
> Thanks.

A regional chain is the dominant supermarket in my market with many, many locations within my shopping area. They reimburse $10 groceries per shop and allow up to 15 locations shopped per month.

Deeshops: Anyone's answer is fine, but I was asking Flash because she wrote

Flash Wrote:
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> Because you need to buy groceries anyway.
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> And these contribute over $1500 of groceries per
> year to the household.

Jamie
Editor and shopper

Here in L.A., I could shop grocery stores every single day of the week if I felt like driving all over the city. There are over 400 grocery stores within reasonable driving distance to me and I know who shops all of them. Many are shopped 2-3 times per month. Over the course of 2 weeks, I usually visit:

1 warehouse type store
2 Natural foods stores
4 large chain stores
1 local bag-it-yourself store

I keep it to stores within 5 or 10 miles of me and take care of all my grocery needs that way. I often go over the reimbursement + fee for the shops that work that way, but my pay from other type shops make up for it.

I'm going to Flash next holiday, then Steve, so I won't have to shop......sounds fabulous, being alone, just don't cook like that anymore, just make a turkey.

Live consciously....

I have cooked 'like that' all of my life. Even when I was living alone between the time my kids went to college and I found my sweetie I cooked. Sure, a lot of things lasted for a week or more in some incarnation or other. But that is part of why I love my crock pot . . . today's menu includes a turkey & rice soup because the turkey frame simmered overnight to get the flavor and the rest of the little bits of meat off. Clean the refrigerator of little bits of this and that leftovers into the pot today (last strips of proscuitto, a few carrots shredded, a bell pepper getting wrinkled, a couple of onion halves that had been carefully put away in zip lock sandwich bags, the end of a bottle of pasta sauce, etc.) adjust the spices and we're on our way

Just took grocery store which pays 10.00 fee & 10.00 reimbursement, very fair.
Flash, I did alot of cooking over weekend, making soup and freezing, baked chicken did it all...enjoyed, and will start to cook more until summer when salads are my thing. Forgot how much like therapy cooking is, always enjoyed it, just took a break with all my eating out.

Live consciously....

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/04/2010 06:14PM by Irene_L.A..

It definitely is therapy--the ultimate in 'playing with your food'

I do a 2-4 a month of 2-department grocery shops @ $9.75 plus $15 reimbursement. The form is oh-so-short!

There's also a regional grocery store that reimburses $12 for a shop that takes a total of 10 minutes in the store and less than that for the form. Since those stores are my favorite, and there are a ton nearby wherever I am doing other shops, I may do 1-2 a week of those. It's a rare month when I pay for more than 10% of my groceries. Best of all, the groceries are tax free income.

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I have a new entry into the list of reduced pay shops for 2010:

When scheduling an airport parking shop to coincide with my travel shop next week, I discovered that the airport parking lot now only reimburses for 1-day, rather than the 1-week they offered in 2009. To add insult to injury, they also reduce the shop fee from $14 to $5 if you are actually traveling, and don't allow you to use any sort of coupon or discount program.

Since I can show my frequent flyer card to the cashier at this particular lot and receive a discount, that means my end cost for parking is $2 less for NOT doing the shop now! Nice way to penalize actual customers!

Needless to say, I cancelled the shop. The scheduler was understanding about it. Now I'm looking for an alternate lot to park in just in case in case it's the client who came up with this bright idea.

The MSC was voted of worst companies to work for in my survey, so chances are pretty good they were involved in this decision.

Sorry Steve. Blood out of turnips comes to mind . . . And quite fascinating that the fee is higher if it is just a shop rather than a need. Sort of belies the notion that shoppers are just 'ordinary customers'.

What I am seeing for 2010 with my better companies is client reduction in the number of shops though thus far the fees have not been nicked. Certainly makes setting up routes harder and harder all the time.

SI has no grocery stores here, mainly healthy FF which I do monthly..whoops, Steve, your not listening......they are all over, so, I know you won't take my Valencia or Northridge.....lol.

Live consciously....

I actually saw a grocery shop that pays $0, then covers $7 in groceries. Bad news.

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