Pros
Flexible schedule, management are there for you when you have questions or issues, no weekends (unless you're behind on your work and you need to finish on a Saturday). If you like to work alone, this is the job for you. Weekly pay.
Cons
Way too much driving. You may drive over 30 minutes to do a C-store (convenience store), and if you're driving from home to the 1st store, you're not paid for it, but that seems to be common.. You may have MANY C stores. Yes, you get paid for gas, (.26 a mile, which is bad) but stores are generally within 5-10 minutes of each other, so it takes a lot of stores to get that hour of drive time in, which you are paid for as well. The equipment is horrible. My first handheld stopped scanning and when I received the replacement, the hand strap broke on it the very first day! The MC-55 was released in 2009 and Crossmark uses these relics. They lag when there are lots of surveys/jobs loaded into them. They freeze up, the hand strap breaks....they're just horrible. They also slow your scanning down and for a job that gives bonuses for faster scanning, the relic MC-55 is a burden on your performance. Stores are "bench marked" every 6 months or so, therefore you are expected to have the same amount of displays and UPC's scanned as the day they bench marked them. STUPID! Displays change, Holidays come, and yet you're expected to have the same results as when they first bench marked the store. This is a dead end job and you had better enjoy driving and if you have a bad back or bad legs, don't sign up for this job because it's a lot of bending over. Never anything full time as a data collector and never any raises. You're lucky to get 15 hours a week and when you do, it's when Coke projects of Gas station surveys come up, but that's it! Good for people who don't want to work allot or get paid well. The pay is relevant to your first job when you get out of high school. You do the math. I am not a "disgruntled employee", I am just stating facts. I have quit this job twice now and there will NOT be a 3rd time!
