The condensed answer to this question is yes and no. In many cases, a grocery store assignment will consist of you visiting every department in the store, and possibly restrooms and restaurants if they have them. A grocery store assignment can take some serious time to complete, and in many cases the pay can be fairly minimal for the time and effort involved. To make a grocery store assignment worth your time and effort, you have to be fairly discerning in your selection of assignments.
Choose Your Location Wisely. The good news about a grocery store assignment is that this is a place you shop at regularly, and a place where you typically “need” to purchase something on your visit. Many grocery store assignments in urban areas can get away with paying less for a mystery shop assignment than those in outlying or rural areas. If you choose to accept an assignment at a lower-paying urban location, you may want to ensure this is a grocery store you regularly shop at or otherwise one that is not too far away. While you may already have a trip to the grocery store planned, there is extra time required to hit all of the various departments and you want to ensure your efforts are well-compensated.
A rural location is not necessarily a poor choice of assignments. Rural grocery store assignments may pay you up to twice as much to complete. If you already live in a suburb, some of the “rural” locations may only be 20-40 minutes in the opposite direction from town, and the extra pay you will receive may make up for your travel time. Just remember, as always, to track your mileage so you can write it off as a business expense on your tax returns.
What’s Involved? Many of the lower-paying urban grocery store assignments may require more effort from you than the rural grocery store assignments. Many of the urban grocery stores have almost every department you can imagine – from separate meat, deli, and seafood counters, to a staffed beauty department, pharmacy, bakery, and even an in-store restaurant. Whereas many rural grocery stores may combine their meat, deli, and seafood departments into one counter, and usually will not have staffed beauty department or on-site restaurant. What this means for you is that a rural grocery store may not have as much work required as an urban grocery store. Of course, there are some rural grocery stores that serve as a hub for many surrounding rural cities and may have all of these departments. So do some thorough research before you accept a grocery store assignment so you know exactly how much work is required for that location.
Kill Two Birds. Likely you already have a trip to the grocery store planned for sometime that week. In many cases, with grocery store assignments, you are required to purchase an item from each department or make a minimum number of purchases that cannot be returned. So the good news with any grocery store assignment is that you can take care of your personal errands and earn money at the same time.
If You’re Making the Trip…. Often, if you choose to make a trip to a rural grocery store, you can either find another assignment in that same city or en route to that city. If you plan your trip wisely, you can make the most of your travel time by completing multiple assignments on your road trip.
The bottom line is that grocery store assignments are great because they involve a “chore” you typically have to complete on a weekly basis. But to make the most of your time and effort with this type of assignment, you should do some extra research and planning to yield the biggest profits.
I AM VERY INTERESTED IN GROCERY STORE ASSIGNMENTS PLEASE.
The other benefit, briefly described, is the purchase requirements. They are usually the bulk of the pay, anywhere from 100% – 750% above the pay you receive for the shop. Ex. $5.00 pay, $13.00 in shopper compensation. $5.00 pay, $43.00 in grocery compensation.
Yes i am interested in shopping for you in a grocery store.
Please advise me as to when and where?
I am lucky. I complete mystery shop grocery stores, but I get paid mileage and time, not a set fee. It is awesome. This is the best mystery shop I have found.
I do these fairly often. I live in a mid size town, and there are three different chain stores excluding Wal-Mart that I do on a rotation basis.
While the pay is not the greatest, I do get close to the amount that I pay out. (in my mind that equals free.)I mean who does not need a loaf of bread or a gallon of milk?
Most of the time the questioniers are simple, straight forward and done in about 15 minutes.
I suggest everyone try this at least once. It is not for everyone, but you never know, you might really like it.
ey i will try it
What companies assign grocery store assignments?
I shop several Grocery Stores. I think they are great. the only thing you have to be careful of is shopper temptation!! I would like to know how to find out who the companies are that represent certain specific companies…How do you do that? ie: Red Lobster, Cracker Barrel, Chessecake Factory, etc. Can you help? I am in the Jacksonville Fl area.
If you are near St Simon GA, GFK is looking for Harris Teeter shoppers.
I think it is worth my time. I’m always grocery shopping.
Check out Trend Source. They schedule a lot of grocery assignments. Confero also does a grocery chain shop. Renee, you have to go to each site and register to shop grocery stores. There are hundreds of mystery shop companies, and it’s a long process to find who does what. Check out mysteryshoponline.com. Jacob Jans is the operator on that site and he has a large list of companies, with links, so that you can join each if you want. God Bless and happy shopping!
Schedule four stores per day at $10 each flat and $13 each groceries = $40 cash and $52 in grceries. I do this twice a week for four weeks. $92 x 8 per month = $320 cash and $416 in free groceries each month. That one company pays for almost all my groceries and all my gas and expenses for all my other shops. Now that I have been doing them regular it takes me 20 min to shop and 20 min input but its good cash.
me gustaria participar en alguna asignación para mystery shooper en mi pais, soy de costa rica, y se hacer el trabajo que me asignen, espero respuesta a mi correo.
Yes iam interesting in grocery store.
I am very interested in grocery store shops. I haven’t had one yet, but would love to do them.
yes i am interesrted in grocery store shopping. wanda lowry just as long as it is in my location . think you wanda lowry
yes i am interested in grocery store shopping wanda lowry
I have done many grocery shops thru Trendsource and they are fairly easy and like everyone is saying they pay for groceries and do not regulate what you have to purchase other than that usually you have to have one bigger item on the bottom of the cart…they like to see if the cashiers notice it there. Trendsource also will pay a PAD for travel if you request it and no onelse applies for that shop. I have already been paid $30 over the payment and grocery reimbursements for one shop that is 20 miles roundtrip from my house. Well worth the trip.
Yes I will do grocery assignment.
I have done a ton of grocery shops for Market Force and they pay pretty well. I really enjoy doing them. Well worth it!