I've been away from Mystery Shopping for a while. The stock market kept going up and I'm attending graduate school. Now that I'm back, and have been looking around. I don't see the possibilities I saw a few years ago. I don't see the vet shops, the upscale grocery store, the fine dining. What I do see, is snatched up quickly and I'm left scrambling trying to get a few crumbs that are left over.