General ramblings 'bout companies

Ok, rather than reviewing a company today, how about I talk about some of the companies I've applied for and some other stuff going on.

Lets start with stores, the only thing interesting here is Lowes Home Improvement, who I've seen start showing up on some of my apps, just noticed one on Point Pickup right now, and I think I saw one the other day on Roadie. I take it their previous and really stupid decision failed, and now they're shopping for a good service to use. Who'd they try? Instacart. Yeah, the company that shops for your groceries and deliver them, and is often accused of paying poorly. That company, and they were expecting people to go shopping for tools and other stuff in a hardware store for the same price as groceries. Was there really any chance of that working? Looks like they're now going with a traditional service where they do the shop, and a driver delivers the package.

Talking of services and all, Roadie is one I use a lot, luggage, hardware, all kinds of stuff. Funny thing is that other companies farm stuff out to them when they don't have enough drivers, WalMart, Complete Delivery and Returns on Demand. Not surprisingly, when possible, I go directly to those companies and sign up, I mean why not eliminate the middle man?

ROD seems to be dead, they had a weird business model, they'd pick up say your cable box and drop it off at the cable company for you. I was signed up to become a driver as soon as they got an app and dispatch system up and running, but a month or so ago, they emailed and said they'd scrapped those plans until further notice.

WalMart's in house is called Spark, and I'd signed up for it back when it first rolled out here, but work was so sparse I stopped doing it. When I went back to the app near the beginning of the year, they insisted on confirming my email, an email I don't have. Ummm, problem, and apparently one they have no system in place to fix. With the app tied to my phone number, I can't sign up for a new account, so.... Well, guess that one is out.

CDS, so far I haven't done anything for them, though I was offered one job, not that I could do it as my account was tied to my agent's address as my operating area, and that's a suburb of KC (exurb?) when I'm on the opposite side of the state. Thankfully when I finally got to calling them, it was surprisingly quick and easy to fix, so we'll talk more about this one in the future. That said, their app is garbage, in fact if'n it weren't for their web portal, I wouldn't've realized the problem. I guess we'll see how things work out.

Other stuff, waiting to be on boarded at GOMO, there's some kind of hang up there I need to get sorted. I'm signed up to Draiver which is some kind of car transport service which I haven't gotten called up on. There's also Veho and Courial, neither of which seem to have any work out here. Fetch is another odd one, don't understand how that's supposed to be a business, but if'n they come out to STL, they've in KC, I'll give them a try. Oh, and finally there's GoShare who's driver support is garbage, it wouldn't accept my email (@xcetera.biz), and according to support they only accept Gmail. Uhhh, yeah, from what I hear that's BS, it's just that they're working off a limited white list of emails and can't or don't know how to add mine. Actually mine works when contacting support, just not for sign up.

So, if'n you're a app based #courier, there's a few things for you to look at.