6am shop theory

Any given morning has always been a bit of a crapshoot, but more often than not if I was logged at 5:30a I got a good offer to take and be shopping by 6a.

My theory from seeing enough mornings now where there is absolutely nothing acceptable — and it’s not for lack of offers — is that this time slot is now being filled with orders the stores do not want to shop, not that the customer paid for “express shopping”. The orders are just bad and all huge quantities. Toss in the mix my zone starting seeing triple shops (about 2 weeks ago) and it feels like the stores offloading a lot of labor on the bad offers. This isn’t actually a gripe because I’m so used to seeing horrible offers no matter the time of day, but it’s starting to feel like correlation after these last couple weeks observing each morning.

I know there plenty of customers that do like the 6a express shop (hell, they even post about it on the WM customer sub) and I’ll keep an eye out for those offers. But more mornings than not lately I just don’t end up accepting any offer until later in the meaning.