diff --git a/lib/sidekiq/client.rb b/lib/sidekiq/client.rb
index 0f5df4a6..f5b94d58 100644
--- a/lib/sidekiq/client.rb
+++ b/lib/sidekiq/client.rb
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ module Sidekiq
         else
           _, pushed = conn.multi do
             conn.sadd('queues', normed['queue'])
-            conn.rpush("queue:#{normed['queue']}", payload)
+            conn.lpush("queue:#{normed['queue']}", payload)
           end
         end
       end
diff --git a/lib/sidekiq/fetch.rb b/lib/sidekiq/fetch.rb
index a2b292d0..f1cc32be 100644
--- a/lib/sidekiq/fetch.rb
+++ b/lib/sidekiq/fetch.rb
@@ -12,11 +12,10 @@ module Sidekiq
 
     TIMEOUT = 1
 
-    def initialize(mgr, queues, strict)
+    def initialize(mgr, options)
+      klass = Sidekiq.options[:fetch] || BasicFetch
       @mgr = mgr
-      @strictly_ordered_queues = strict
-      @queues = queues.map { |q| "queue:#{q}" }
-      @unique_queues = @queues.uniq
+      @strategy = klass.new(options)
     end
 
     # Fetching is straightforward: the Manager makes a fetch
@@ -32,10 +31,10 @@ module Sidekiq
         return if Sidekiq::Fetcher.done?
 
         begin
-          queue, msg = Sidekiq.redis { |conn| conn.blpop(*queues_cmd) }
+          work = @strategy.retrieve_work
 
-          if msg
-            @mgr.async.assign(msg, queue.gsub(/.*queue:/, ''))
+          if work
+            @mgr.async.assign(work)
           else
             after(0) { fetch }
           end
@@ -58,8 +57,34 @@ module Sidekiq
     def self.done?
       @done
     end
+  end
 
-    private
+  class BasicFetch
+    def initialize(options)
+      @strictly_ordered_queues = !!options[:strict]
+      @queues = options[:queues].map { |q| "queue:#{q}" }
+      @unique_queues = @queues.uniq
+    end
+
+    def retrieve_work
+      UnitOfWork.new(*Sidekiq.redis { |conn| conn.brpop(*queues_cmd) })
+    end
+
+    UnitOfWork = Struct.new(:queue, :message) do
+      def acknowledge
+        # nothing to do
+      end
+
+      def queue_name
+        queue.gsub(/.*queue:/, '')
+      end
+
+      def requeue
+        Sidekiq.redis do |conn|
+          conn.rpush(queue, message)
+        end
+      end
+    end
 
     # Creating the Redis#blpop command takes into account any
     # configured queue weights. By default Redis#blpop returns
@@ -67,10 +92,10 @@ module Sidekiq
     # recreate the queue command each time we invoke Redis#blpop
     # to honor weights and avoid queue starvation.
     def queues_cmd
-      return @unique_queues.dup << TIMEOUT if @strictly_ordered_queues
+      return @unique_queues.dup << Sidekiq::Fetcher::TIMEOUT if @strictly_ordered_queues
       queues = @queues.sample(@unique_queues.size).uniq
       queues.concat(@unique_queues - queues)
-      queues << TIMEOUT
+      queues << Sidekiq::Fetcher::TIMEOUT
     end
   end
 end
diff --git a/lib/sidekiq/manager.rb b/lib/sidekiq/manager.rb
index c2d1363a..3cc99428 100644
--- a/lib/sidekiq/manager.rb
+++ b/lib/sidekiq/manager.rb
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ module Sidekiq
       @in_progress = {}
       @done = false
       @busy = []
-      @fetcher = Fetcher.new(current_actor, options[:queues], !!options[:strict])
+      @fetcher = Fetcher.new(current_actor, options)
       @ready = @count.times.map { Processor.new_link(current_actor) }
       procline(options[:tag] ? "#{options[:tag]} " : '')
     end
@@ -86,21 +86,19 @@ module Sidekiq
       end
     end
 
-    def assign(msg, queue)
+    def assign(work)
       watchdog("Manager#assign died") do
         if stopped?
           # Race condition between Manager#stop if Fetcher
           # is blocked on redis and gets a message after
           # all the ready Processors have been stopped.
           # Push the message back to redis.
-          Sidekiq.redis do |conn|
-            conn.lpush("queue:#{queue}", msg)
-          end
+          work.requeue
         else
           processor = @ready.pop
-          @in_progress[processor.object_id] = [msg, queue]
+          @in_progress[processor.object_id] = work
           @busy << processor
-          processor.async.process(msg, queue)
+          processor.async.process(work)
         end
       end
     end
diff --git a/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb b/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb
index be26b474..e0433f3c 100644
--- a/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb
+++ b/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb
@@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ module Sidekiq
       @boss = boss
     end
 
-    def process(msgstr, queue)
+    def process(work)
+      msgstr = work.message
+      queue = work.queue_name
       defer do
         begin
           msg = Sidekiq.load_json(msgstr)
@@ -46,6 +48,8 @@ module Sidekiq
         rescue Exception => ex
           handle_exception(ex, msg || { :message => msgstr })
           raise
+        ensure
+          work.acknowledge
         end
       end
       @boss.async.processor_done(current_actor)
diff --git a/test/test_client.rb b/test/test_client.rb
index 9ba8d232..b6247982 100644
--- a/test/test_client.rb
+++ b/test/test_client.rb
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class TestClient < MiniTest::Unit::TestCase
     end
 
     it 'pushes messages to redis' do
-      @redis.expect :rpush, 1, ['queue:foo', String]
+      @redis.expect :lpush, 1, ['queue:foo', String]
       pushed = Sidekiq::Client.push('queue' => 'foo', 'class' => MyWorker, 'args' => [1, 2])
       assert pushed
       assert_equal 24, pushed.size
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ class TestClient < MiniTest::Unit::TestCase
     end
 
     it 'pushes messages to redis using a String class' do
-      @redis.expect :rpush, 1, ['queue:foo', String]
+      @redis.expect :lpush, 1, ['queue:foo', String]
       pushed = Sidekiq::Client.push('queue' => 'foo', 'class' => 'MyWorker', 'args' => [1, 2])
       assert pushed
       assert_equal 24, pushed.size
@@ -66,28 +66,28 @@ class TestClient < MiniTest::Unit::TestCase
     end
 
     it 'handles perform_async' do
-      @redis.expect :rpush, 1, ['queue:default', String]
+      @redis.expect :lpush, 1, ['queue:default', String]
       pushed = MyWorker.perform_async(1, 2)
       assert pushed
       @redis.verify
     end
 
     it 'handles perform_async on failure' do
-      @redis.expect :rpush, nil, ['queue:default', String]
+      @redis.expect :lpush, nil, ['queue:default', String]
       pushed = MyWorker.perform_async(1, 2)
       refute pushed
       @redis.verify
     end
 
     it 'enqueues messages to redis' do
-      @redis.expect :rpush, 1, ['queue:default', String]
+      @redis.expect :lpush, 1, ['queue:default', String]
       pushed = Sidekiq::Client.enqueue(MyWorker, 1, 2)
       assert pushed
       @redis.verify
     end
 
     it 'enqueues messages to redis' do
-      @redis.expect :rpush, 1, ['queue:custom_queue', String]
+      @redis.expect :lpush, 1, ['queue:custom_queue', String]
       pushed = Sidekiq::Client.enqueue_to(:custom_queue, MyWorker, 1, 2)
       assert pushed
       @redis.verify
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ class TestClient < MiniTest::Unit::TestCase
     end
 
     it 'enqueues to the named queue' do
-      @redis.expect :rpush, 1, ['queue:flimflam', String]
+      @redis.expect :lpush, 1, ['queue:flimflam', String]
       pushed = QueuedWorker.perform_async(1, 2)
       assert pushed
       @redis.verify
@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ class TestClient < MiniTest::Unit::TestCase
   end
 
   describe 'bulk' do
+    after do
+      Sidekiq::Queue.new.clear
+    end
     it 'can push a large set of jobs at once' do
       a = Time.now
       count = Sidekiq::Client.push_bulk('class' => QueuedWorker, 'args' => (1..1_000).to_a.map { |x| Array(x) })
diff --git a/test/test_fetch.rb b/test/test_fetch.rb
index dfbea6f4..cca14dca 100644
--- a/test/test_fetch.rb
+++ b/test/test_fetch.rb
@@ -2,12 +2,30 @@ require 'helper'
 require 'sidekiq/fetch'
 
 class TestFetcher < MiniTest::Unit::TestCase
-  describe 'Fetcher#queues_cmd' do
-    describe 'when queues are strictly ordered' do
-      it 'returns the unique ordered queues properly based on priority and order they were passed in' do
-        fetcher = Sidekiq::Fetcher.new nil, %w[high medium low default], true
-        assert_equal (%w[queue:high queue:medium queue:low queue:default] << 1), fetcher._send_(:queues_cmd)
-      end
+
+  def setup
+    Sidekiq.redis do |conn|
+      conn.del('queue:basic')
+      conn.rpush('queue:basic', 'msg')
     end
   end
+
+  def test_basic_fetch_retrieve
+    fetch = Sidekiq::BasicFetch.new(:queues => ['basic', 'bar'])
+    uow = fetch.retrieve_work
+    refute_nil uow
+    assert_equal 'basic', uow.queue_name
+    assert_equal 'msg', uow.message
+    q = Sidekiq::Queue.new('basic')
+    assert_equal 0, q.size
+    uow.requeue
+    assert_equal 1, q.size
+    assert_nil uow.acknowledge
+  end
+
+  def test_basic_fetch_strict_retrieve
+    fetch = Sidekiq::BasicFetch.new(:queues => ['basic', 'bar', 'bar'], :strict => true)
+    cmd = fetch.queues_cmd
+    assert_equal cmd, ['queue:basic', 'queue:bar', 1]
+  end
 end
diff --git a/test/test_middleware.rb b/test/test_middleware.rb
index 0ddbf403..33632dcf 100644
--- a/test/test_middleware.rb
+++ b/test/test_middleware.rb
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class TestMiddleware < MiniTest::Unit::TestCase
       def call(*args)
       end
     end
-    
+
     class AnotherCustomMiddleware
       def initialize(name, recorder)
         @name = name
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ class TestMiddleware < MiniTest::Unit::TestCase
       actor = MiniTest::Mock.new
       actor.expect(:processor_done, nil, [processor])
       boss.expect(:async, actor, [])
-      processor.process(msg, 'default')
+      processor.process(Sidekiq::BasicFetch::UnitOfWork.new('queue:default', msg))
       assert_equal %w(2 before 3 before 0 before work_performed 0 after 3 after 2 after), $recorder.flatten
     end
 
diff --git a/test/test_processor.rb b/test/test_processor.rb
index 918de2ca..1fc24c4f 100644
--- a/test/test_processor.rb
+++ b/test/test_processor.rb
@@ -23,12 +23,16 @@ class TestProcessor < MiniTest::Unit::TestCase
       end
     end
 
+    def work(msg, queue='queue:default')
+      Sidekiq::BasicFetch::UnitOfWork.new(queue, msg)
+    end
+
     it 'processes as expected' do
       msg = Sidekiq.dump_json({ 'class' => MockWorker.to_s, 'args' => ['myarg'] })
       actor = MiniTest::Mock.new
       actor.expect(:processor_done, nil, [@processor])
       @boss.expect(:async, actor, [])
-      @processor.process(msg, 'default')
+      @processor.process(work(msg))
       @boss.verify
       assert_equal 1, $invokes
     end
@@ -36,7 +40,7 @@ class TestProcessor < MiniTest::Unit::TestCase
     it 'passes exceptions to ExceptionHandler' do
       msg = Sidekiq.dump_json({ 'class' => MockWorker.to_s, 'args' => ['boom'] })
       begin
-        @processor.process(msg, 'default')
+        @processor.process(work(msg))
         flunk "Expected #process to raise exception"
       rescue TestException
       end
@@ -49,7 +53,7 @@ class TestProcessor < MiniTest::Unit::TestCase
       re_raise = false
 
       begin
-        @processor.process(msg, 'default')
+        @processor.process(work(msg))
       rescue TestException
         re_raise = true
       end
@@ -64,7 +68,7 @@ class TestProcessor < MiniTest::Unit::TestCase
       actor = MiniTest::Mock.new
       actor.expect(:processor_done, nil, [processor])
       @boss.expect(:async, actor, [])
-      processor.process(msgstr, 'default')
+      processor.process(work(msgstr))
       assert_equal [['myarg']], msg['args']
     end
 
@@ -79,7 +83,7 @@ class TestProcessor < MiniTest::Unit::TestCase
           actor = MiniTest::Mock.new
           actor.expect(:processor_done, nil, [@processor])
           @boss.expect(:async, actor, [])
-          @processor.process(msg, 'default')
+          @processor.process(work(msg))
         end
 
         it 'increments processed stat' do
@@ -100,7 +104,7 @@ class TestProcessor < MiniTest::Unit::TestCase
         def failed_job
           msg = Sidekiq.dump_json({ 'class' => MockWorker.to_s, 'args' => ['boom'] })
           begin
-            @processor.process(msg, 'default')
+            @processor.process(work(msg))
           rescue TestException
           end
         end