I signed up for Homescan about three months ago. Since then, I've been asciduously scanning in virtually everything we've purchased.
Then, today, scanning in a large grocery shopping trip, using their reference cards for the vegetables, and spending about an hour doing it, I got to thinking "why the hell am I doing this for them without adequate compensation?" These suckers are not even paying minimum wage.
AC Nielsen and its subsidiary HomeScan are large, for profit corporations. They sell their research findings to high-paying clients, but they're using essentially slave-labor for the...read full review »