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Old Feb 27, 2016 | 2:13 pm
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Originally Posted by cdog999
It was a grocery store. There are about 8 of them in the same chain that I hit up on a regular basis. Unfortunately this is one of them that is directly on the way to work, so I was hitting it at least 5 days a week. Definitely would be a bigger deal if WM shuts me down as then I would have a real liquidation issue which is much bigger deal than missing out on $2000 VGCs every day (or having to add extra time including additional stores). I've been trying my best to rotate WMs as I fully believe at least one of them will drop before my promotional 5% period ends in July. That said I probably hit one WM for just under 35K MOs this past week. Not Tashir type money, but still enough that I'm probably the store's biggest player right now.

I've already had 2 other grocery stores shut me down. One that I was buying MOs at very briefly when I first started this last month. I even had that store manager (smaller chain) tell me directly that the fact that I had used 14 debit cards at his store made "the hair on his skin stand straight up". A Walgreens even shut me down about 2 weeks in back in January. I've been avoiding Walgreens since I can't liquidate at WM anyway though.
Well, the Tashir method is [redacted] and tell everyone about it, since he faces no direct consequences. I try to limit to 6-8k MOs per visit, no more than twice a week. Very friendly stores can suddenly turn unfriendly when a paranoid manager starts working. Doing lower volume and spreading around makes the chances much lower.

I've had no grocery store GC buying shutdowns, except the Safeway one that affected everyone. The worst was they told me to fill out a form with my info for the regional manager to make sure I'm not a crook. You can't do much about a shutdown but at least don't let them waste your time. Ask straight up who the mystery person is they plan to call, what the problem is, and how you can help to resolve it faster...by filling out paperwork, providing ID etc. If they're BSing you it'll quickly come out when they start stalling.

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