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Pricing Audits - What happens if you get caught

November 29, 2015 01:54AM
I see a pricing audit for vitamins that says it takes 30 minutes to an hour and pays ok.

But, I answered the email with:
Is this a revealed or unrevealed audit.
What happens if I get caught?

If this was Walmart, no problem. But these are tiny stores and anyone in there for an hour would be noticed, writing down prices. Has anyone done these and can give advice?
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November 30, 2015 04:42PM
If it paid well enough, I might try to walk the whole shop and take video in HD of each price tag along the shelf with my key fob camera and then do a frame by frame review when I get home. I can read name tags from 3 ft away in good lighting if I don't move the camera too quickly. At 30 frames per second speed and the highest frame rate at 720P, I can read all the prices and product names of a shelf if I scan it as I walk slowly. To walk the whole store assuming I can get two shelves in each pass would be still obvious I was not shopping like a normal customer and would require lots of time at home reviewing the video. If it was a GNC store, I'd pass as they will hover over you in that place.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/30/2015 04:42PM by scanman1.
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November 30, 2015 07:21PM
I can't count the number of times helpful employees have asked: "Are you finding everything you need? Can I help you find anything?" I always say, everything's fine, thanks for the offer, and keep on writing stuff down
on my clipboard!

LOL!!!

I am definitely low tech!!!
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November 30, 2015 10:14PM
I don't touch these with a 50 ft pole. No LOA, no work of this nature. It's one thing if it's one product, but its another if it's a list of them.
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December 02, 2015 01:50AM
I don't know why I thought it was actually vitamins; it's a slue of items, most I've never heard of.
I need to ask for more information before I accept shops; my score is pretty low because of these.
Not just this shop, but I'm feeling pretty duped lately.
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December 02, 2015 06:22AM
If it's a grocery store like Kroger, I do those regularly and they pay no attention. Sometimes, they are even stocking the same aisle and don't even care what I am doing. I had a stocker actually stand to the side without me asking so I could get my picture correct.

Shopping across Indiana but mostly around Indianapolis.
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December 02, 2015 08:37AM
@lbw1000 wrote:

If it's a grocery store like Kroger, I do those regularly and they pay no attention. Sometimes, they are even stocking the same aisle and don't even care what I am doing. I had a stocker actually stand to the side without me asking so I could get my picture correct.

There is a big difference between someone taking a photo in Kroger than someone taking photos in certain big box electronic stores. Walk into an HHgregg and try to even shake the salesman that attacks you, much less take photos or do a pricing audit. Even the manager of a Staples was not pleased with me and followed me out to the parking lot and wrote down my license plate number when I would not stop and explain why I was taking photos in his store and just kept walking. I was taking a photo in a Costco and an employee came around the corner and paused for me to take the shot and not get in the way. Fast Food Menu board audits can go either way as well. I had a true LOA and I took many photos of a new promotion and they paid no attention to me at all, even when I walked up to the drive thru fast food menu board to get the sign topper in the shot. I did not want to use the LOA since I shop the location.
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