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Price Audits.. 12000 items on an exel spreadsheet, get prices from given grocery store without getting caught.

April 07, 2014 07:37PM
heartlandcanuck Wrote:
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> If they broke the list up into 9, $50 shops,
> someone could self assign them all and not risk
> the whole shebang if kicked out.

That's what an MSC does for a client that shops their competitors on a weekly basis. Lists of 50 items per shop and you need to have a specific minimum time between shops if you return to the same location in the same day. Based on what these audits pay, as well as the COA ones, $450 is beyond underpaid.100 items, non-bonus weekly audits start at $14, and these are the same ones weekly so you know where the item is located and they are quick to find. One time audits need way more money.
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April 09, 2014 08:08AM
KateH, how long does it take to find the 50 items the first few times? Are all items from the same aisle?

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April 10, 2014 04:16PM
shoppergirl Wrote:
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> KateH, how long does it take to find the 50 items
> the first few times? Are all items from the same
> aisle?


No they are not. They are all over the place because the MSC just breaks them apart and mixes them so that it can get them in a different mix in each list as to verify that there is no discrepancy since there is a probability a different shopper will do one of the lists the following week. Even if you do the cost of living shops for the other MSCs so you do the entire store, do not forget that the list is not based on how each supermarket arranges the merchandise so again it is all over the store. I got a severe headache with the first 100 items visits. But if you do the same location every week or month, you know exactly where each item is located, and most important what it looks like. I had no clue first what tempeh, and some other stuff were. Depending on the supermarket and type of list, now that I know them it can be from 30min to 1 hour. Otherwise, 1 hour minimum and will depend if you do the family shopping and you are familiar with brands.
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April 28, 2014 04:54AM
Small video, but ya the report would be murder

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April 28, 2014 07:02AM
i do three lists of 50 items a week as well and they are all over the shop i take out all the info in the spreadsheet i do not need to get it to only one page then highlight the different parts of the shop ie frozen in red bakery green etc. it usually takes about 3/4 hour to an hour we also have to get barcode if different and pictures of any price differences. I can not imagine doing 12000 i am sure i have been spotted but they probably know why i am doing it if they did say antying i would jsut say i am collecting prices for a neighbourhood scheme where we help people to learn to budget. i ahve used that when i did it for a diffrent company and we had to tell them we were doing it but not why.
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