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Her Serene Majesty, Cettie - Goat Queen of Zoltar, Sublime Empress of Her Caprine Domain

Definitely yes.

Driveline and Marketforce send them in.

CANADAMOMMY Wrote:
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> Driveline and Marketforce send them in.

I am realllly curious how you know this.

Also, how would that work. If I sign up to do a shop @ restaurant between 4PM and 9PM, are they going to sit there and wait, not even knowing what I look like?

Seems unlikely, unless there are some very expensive jobs, you are a regular, and your validity has been called into MAJOR question by inconsistencies that affected the livelihood of an employee, and they called you out on it. Case in point, I've done 30 shops for them and that is only worth ~$500 in commissions. Sending an auditor to track me for extra $$ doesn't seem justifiable accross all shoppers, or useful to do at random. I do not believe market force has such high paying jobs to justify random checks.

So when are these auditor audits happening?

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/16/2012 04:48AM by marmani.

I'm kinda confused by DDUUBB's terminology here. Aren't "auditors" usually announced visits? Mine for MF have been. But they also require photos with time/date stamps, so what would be the point of "auditing" my audit at some later time?

D'Agosto

"What does it mean? You ask. I answer not/For meaning, but myself must echo, What?/And tell it as I saw it, on the spot."

I think they do a lot of random spotchecking. Reviewing videos, that kind of stuff. But they dont audit every single job you do.

However, if you do every single job as if they are going to audit it, then you will always be OK.

I have my own theory: ( I do demos, audits. merch., and ms'ing...)

1. Demos: Always assume a spotter is going to audit your table and is going to report back on your demonstration.

2. Audits: Always assume someone can come behind you to verify your facts.

3. Mystery Shopping: Always assume any shop you do could be checked into and the surveilance reviewed at the stores.

4. Merchandising: Always know someone can come behind you and check your work.

It's not a paranoid thing but one of my schedulers told me they MS the demo tables so I have my own ways of spotting the shopper who is shopping the shopper! LOL...

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/17/2012 03:28AM by SunnyDays2.

SunnyDays2 Wrote:
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> I have my own theory: ( I do demos, audits.
> merch., and ms'ing...)
>
> 1. Demos: Always assume a spotter is going to
> audit your table and is going to report back on
> your demonstration.
>
> 2. Audits: Always assume someone can come behind
> you to verify your facts.
>
> 3. Mystery Shopping: Always assume any shop you do
> could be checked into and the surveilance reviewed
> at the stores.
>
> 4. Merchandising: Always know someone can come
> behind you and check your work.
>
> It's not a paranoid thing but one of my schedulers
> told me they MS the demo tables so I have my own
> ways of spotting the shopper who is shopping the
> shopper! LOL...

I shop demos all the time. How is that shopping the shopper?
Cyn

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