MYSTERY SHOPPING THREAD XIV - Please do NOT mention Client names on here

coffee-break_2

jc2703 wrote: »

What about a good old fashioned paper and pencil and make it look like you have a shopping list? fold the list in half and make notes inside the fold

Shop 1 -

Shop 2 -

etc and scribble a few bits. You would have to decipher the notes as soon as you could tho if you're any thing like me after half and hour I'd be sat scratching me head and turning the paper round....

At times like this, i wish i had kept up the short-hand classes at college .

Just a thought, but if there is ever an issue with a report at a future date, could the client not try to discredit a shopper if they're caught on CCTV 'making notes'?

MrShopper

Lil_Me wrote: »

Amber Arch are a little funny. They like to give one person all the jobs in a town, so if there are others in your town you probably wont get the one you applied for

Due to rotation rules, I only got the one visit this month.

MrShopper

jc2703 wrote: »

Can someone let me know whether there were any jobs on AAs email for Northern Ireland - the post code will start BT

TIA

Didn't you get my PM and copy of email JC this afternoon.

jc2703

MrShopper wrote: »

Didn't you get my PM and copy of email JC this afternoon.

no i didn't

mysteryshoppingninja

Glamazon wrote: »

I park further away, nip back to the car after 2 shops and then possibly move the car so I don't look so obvious!
I'm gonna look a right weirdo going into almost every shop on the same street - 'Oh Jackie (my LO) shall we go in the Chocolate shop to see what we can get for Mummy?' I'll look even weirder cos I constantly talk to my LO wherever we go - maybe I should get a dictaphone and say to LO 'Isn't this floor lovely and clean?' :rotfl:

If your phone has a voice recorder function then just dictate it all in a big blurb between shops. Done this lots of times when it hasn't been convenient to make notes on paper or I didn't have time to look like a texting addict.

Has anyone else done the type of audits where you walk round dictating product descriptions, pack sizes and prices on the way round the shop? I hate doing those always paranoid about staff overhearing me!!

MrShopper

mysteryshoppingninja wrote: »

If your phone has a voice recorder function then just dictate it all in a big blurb between shops. Done this lots of times when it hasn't been convenient to make notes on paper or I didn't have time to look like a texting addict.

Has anyone else done the type of audits where you walk round dictating product descriptions, pack sizes and prices on the way round the shop? I hate doing those always paranoid about staff overhearing me!!

I use this method of recording details too MSN. I also jot notes in MY shorthand afterwards

I have an early start tomorrow so happy shopping to those that have work tomorrow

nearlyheadlessian

coffee-break wrote: »

Just a thought, but if there is ever an issue with a report at a future date, could the client not try to discredit a shopper if they're caught on CCTV 'making notes'?

No, that's the sort of crap only gap try to pull off.

Becles

mysteryshoppingninja wrote: »

Has anyone else done the type of audits where you walk round dictating product descriptions, pack sizes and prices on the way round the shop? I hate doing those always paranoid about staff overhearing me!!

I do those. I always pin the mic in the inside of the neckline of my top, and then mutter my way around. I often wonder if they are thinking here's that wierd lady who talks to her boobs :rotfl:

Littleoldme

I go for making lots of notes on my phone when I need to. I have got it down to a fine art, taking phone out of pocket and looking at it as if there is a text message just come in, reading it and smiling at something that has been said in the message and then replying (well that is what I hope it looks like, more likely it looks like some mad lady who has lost her head!!)

On another note, my RE money is not showing in my account yet and if it left their account on Thursday I would have thought it should be in by now - anyone else got theirs?

DebtHater

Glamazon wrote: »

I constantly talk to my LO wherever we go - maybe I should get a dictaphone and say to LO 'Isn't this floor lovely and clean?' :rotfl:

Ive been thinking and thinking........... what is an LO? I cant think what it could be.

With regards to note taking, I just use the notepad in iPhone, makes it look like you are sending a text, I know, but you can always go outside and out of sight before doing it.