The Mystery Shopping thread - VIII

TractorGirl327

creaker wrote: »

I have 10 in the main section and the 2 in the other counters section. It seems excessive for just a couple of pounds more than the express ones.

I got so confused doing one of these the other day. Didn't help it was a Friday morning when I visited, VERY busy, and blinkin' home-shopping trolleys blocking everywhere I wanted to go.

I wasn't sure what to visit and what not to, whether to take names & descriptions of every member of staff I encountered, etc. Someone on the old thread (I think) said that the most important ones are Customer Services, Till, Cafe and Petrol. When you do the questionnaire, you can just say that there were no assistants in that particular area and it takes you to the next section.

I really wish TNS would sort this out and let you actually see the questionnaire you will be filling in before you do the job and not just show you a generic one with all the departments ever in the history of the earth!

creaker

TractorGirl327 wrote: »

I got so confused doing one of these the other day. Didn't help it was a Friday morning when I visited, VERY busy, and blinkin' home-shopping trolleys blocking everywhere I wanted to go.

I wasn't sure what to visit and what not to, whether to take names & descriptions of every member of staff I encountered, etc. Someone on the old thread (I think) said that the most important ones are Customer Services, Till, Cafe and Petrol. When you do the questionnaire, you can just say that there were no assistants in that particular area and it takes you to the next section.

I really wish TNS would sort this out and let you actually see the questionnaire you will be filling in before you do the job and not just show you a generic one with all the departments ever in the history of the earth!

Oh..thanks for that, that's a load off, I thought the 11 pages were for the assignment, I guess it will be shorter once I actually go to input the info. But the not knowing is ridiculous.
For the cafe does it matter what you get? and obviously I won't put petrol in at the station for the petrol reimbursement so is a chocolate bar good enough?

Thanks

johnny_c-l

I usually buy a bar of chocolate at the cafe, and a newspsper or gum at the petrol station. You can buy anything you like.

woohoo_postingid

Can anyone enlighten me with this alert please:

"Red shops on ABA-i"

Just a nudge in the right direction if poss

bankypanky

I got very excited at the weekend when I noticed people talking about petrol jobs on ABA i (I think!). I've just logged in to the site and all I have on my main page is a discount homeware store (they sell swords, i think...;)) and no visits there, either! Why is that the only store I see? others on here talk about DIY, chemists and the aforementioned petrol....?

Any help appreciated

IlonaRN

Oops, just posted on the alerts thread, only to find that someone else posted the same thing while I was writing my post!

ukmonkey

16:56

ukmonkey wrote: »

Red shops on ABA-i

17:02

juliecallum wrote: »

catalogue abai

17:03

IlonaRN wrote: »

Catalogue shops on ABA-i.

Guys, please read what others have posted to avoid duplicating alerts! Also, we need to stop being so specific in our alerts. All of us, me included, are a little too obvious in our alerts/discussions. I did consider simply posting "retail jobs on ABA-i" but seeing as their site works how it does, it might have been too difficult for people to find which client it refers to.

I mean, there really aren't many catalogue shops are there?!

Same as fruity phones should just be limited to "phones"
Out of this world electrical shops should just be "electrical shops"
"Black and white clothes shops" should jusdt be "clothes shops"
"Golden Arches" should just be "Burgers"
"Red and black supermarkets" should just be "supermarkets"


Ok, I've made some of these up, but you get my drift. We're at real risk of getting into trouble and/or getting the MS parts of this forum closed down if we don't put a stop to this.

Sorry for whinging...

ukmonkey

woohoo_postingid wrote: »

Can anyone enlighten me with this alert please:

"Red shops on ABA-i"

Just a nudge in the right direction if poss

Log into ABA-I and have a look to see if any of the clients that you see have a red logo. Click into the ones that do and have a search.

If you can't see any red logos, ring or email ABA-I and ask if they have anymore clients that they can add to your account.

ukmonkey

IlonaRN wrote: »

Oops, just posted on the alerts thread, only to find that someone else posted the same thing while I was writing my post!

Hi,

Could you maybe delete your post from the alerts thread please?

To do this, go to the alerts thread, and where your post is, you'll see an edit button to the bottom right of your post.

Click the edit button

On the next screen click the delete button.

Thanks.

ukmonkey

Does anyone know if HRW is around please?