How do you'all feel about audits?

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Just curious, how do you'all feel about audits for these mystery shopping companies? One of the MSC's I work for had an audit of a Family Dollar store, and you even get to choose the one you want to audit, for $18. I applied but then deleted after I called and spoke to the local person who was setting them up. It was a non-reveal audit and it seems to me that I would not be able to maintain the level of discretion that I need to, to not be outed as an auditor. What do you'all think? Wise choice on my part, depends on the situation, or should I have just went for it?

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You know you best. You spoke to someone and felt uncomfortable. Wise choice.

BusyBeeBuzzBuzzBuzz Wrote:
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> You know you best. You spoke to someone and felt
> uncomfortable. Wise choice.

I agree. If you don't feel you could have been discreet and didn't feel comfortable doing it, you made a wise choice.

I don't want to do anything where I have to "be discreet" for more than about ten minutes. Stores are trained to watch people who are acting furtively in case they are shoplifters.

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I do lots of FD merchandise assignments, where you measure the doors, ramps, store-room depth. But I have always been paid fairly and bonused. I have never done unrevealed.

But I LOVE Photo Audits!

And yes, shoplifting is a heavy problem with FD, so I might feel uncomfortable going undercover and walking the aisles..thinking they were watching me...

itsasecret Wrote:
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> I don't want to do anything where I have to "be
> discreet" for more than about ten minutes. Stores
> are trained to watch people who are acting
> furtively in case they are shoplifters.

Are we? In 10 years the most they taught me was the 10 foot rule, which supposedly scares people who wants to shoplift. If I have a suspect about someone I have to go look for a manger and tell him my suspect. Most of the times the manager comes back to the location, which is empty because the guy left. On the other end, if I see someone shoplift I can...do nothing. I can go call a manger and hoping I find him/her quickly, the same situation above mentioned applies. The situation changes if the shoplifter has $500 of product in the cart. They are easy to track down and the manager can follow them.
But again...were we trained? The only train I was ever given was go call a manger if you have a suspect. But again, I have less than a minute to open a case, fix the shelf, stock the item and dispose of the box...do you think I have time to look for suspects? To me even helping a customer is a big waste of time since I am given such a short time to stock.

If it is not revealed, I do not do it. End of discussion.

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techman01 Wrote:
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> If it is not revealed, I do not do it. End of
> discussion.

This makes sense to me, yes.

I also Love audits. Costco is brilliant, always seems to be exact to planogram, signing, etc. Then again there is Sam's club. Bad with the good. I don't do unrevealed, as it seems there is so much information to be gathered that it would make the average thinking person wonder what was up and start asking lots of questions.

Well, italiano, I never even worked store level but I received training when I was in the grocery industry about spotting shoplifters. I'm surprised you didn't.

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