Audit shops for Sears and Kmart
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I am curious about those as well. Information indicates it can take "up to 3 hrs".
There are three in my area, they pay 30.00 dollars. I am just trying to see if they are worth it
I decided it was worth trying one and I would know for next round if they were worth it. Folks in the past have noted that the Sears ones were ok depending on the organization of the store and helpfulness of the associate. Mine is for a Kmart and during the week so there should be few customers and hopefully an associate will be happy to help rather than be stuck with cleaning and restocking. I would not even attempt the shop on a weekend!
I won't know until the 7th, which will probably be too late for you. Why not grab one and give it a whirl? 
We can commiserate together if they turn out to be a nightmare . . .
We can commiserate together if they turn out to be a nightmare . . .
sounds like a plan. I need the money anyway
I have done these n the past. They are not hard, takes about 2 hours to do. ( or they use to)
You will go with an associate (usually the asst. manager) and make sure that the prices on the scan gun match the price posted.
Ihad to take about 5 pictures ( out side of the building, the rest room, fitting room, and something else)
As I said they are not hard,
purrff
You will go with an associate (usually the asst. manager) and make sure that the prices on the scan gun match the price posted.
Ihad to take about 5 pictures ( out side of the building, the rest room, fitting room, and something else)
As I said they are not hard,
purrff
Like purrff said, take about 2 hours, I did one and took me 1:45 including the waiting time for the Manager to sign up my paper. If you are lucky, the Manager give you the best employee to help you with the scan, the scan price need to match the price posted, if not you just record the error, it's about 6 pages, will be easy if you follow the list, I did a Kmart and didn't required pictures, the report took 5 minutes to input because there wasn't any error with the prices. It was the easy $30.00 that I ever made, I will do again and again, I don't see any for long time, possible the MS company stop doing it here in my area. Was a post around June 2008 about this shop.
Isabel
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I did my first yesterday and was on site for a little over 2 hours. It took 5 minutes for my 'helper' to get his stuff together to go, it took 1:55 to do the audit itself, it took about 15 min to finish up the paperwork and him to make his copy. The store I did had a half dozen "unders" which made the report take pretty close to 30 minutes to input. I figure it took about 3 hours of my time. Frankly I don't see that the audit itself could have taken much less than the 1:55 because I was basically pointing to the next item and being a scribe as he read me all the numbers I needed, showed me the tags, etc. and we were going about as fast as I could get it written down.
Sounds like $10 to $15/hour. My favorite question is will you do it again?
The location I did yesterday I would be delighted to do again. The one I did today I will not return. Yesterday's had a friendly and totally helpful managerial type and we found few enough errors it didn't take terribly long to do the report. Today's was an initially belligerent managerial type who started off blaming everybody for the errors found. By the time we finished she had some sense of just how deficient her areas were and that I was actually trying NOT to crucify her. But there were so many errors that reporting was long and very tedious.
I recently did 2 of these, both at Kmarts. The first one, they couldn't find anybody to go around with me so I just took the RMU and started on my own. Since it was my first one, I wasn't positive what I was doing but it sort of compared to a Best Buy 2 day audit I had done in the past so I just kept at it. It took me about 3 hours from the time I walked in until the time I walked out. The report took about another 20 minutes. I got paid $30 for that one. The second one I did, the manager on duty told me he had only been working at this Kmart about a month but he had gone through the same thing at the last Kmart he worked at and so he was very cooperative. He had a young gal go with me and use the RMU on what they call the softlines. When we were done with those, the manager himself went along with me for the hardlines. Again, the whole process was right around 3 hours. I got paid $35 for this audit because it was bonused $5 so I was happy about doing them. The only thing I didn't like about it was the amount of time I have to be on my feet. My old arthritic knees don't really like that so much.
Mine were pretty fast, clocking in at around 2 hours. What I found painful was my back from holding the clipboard and writing. It is just not an angle that I normally have my hands and arms for extended period of time. Towards the end I was just resting the clipboard on any available surface to write my numbers.
i work at kmart and we dont pay anyone to come in and do audits we do it all on our own i wish we did pay people to come do it though its easy but gets really boring after a while
These particular audits have been going on for years now and still are. Maybe you haven't been at the store during one?
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milliradian64 Wrote:
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> i work at kmart and we dont pay anyone to come in
> and do audits we do it all on our own i wish we
> did pay people to come do it though its easy but
> gets really boring after a while
While we do audits in your store, you as an employee only do inventory. Believe me, WE do audits at Kmarts.
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> i work at kmart and we dont pay anyone to come in
> and do audits we do it all on our own i wish we
> did pay people to come do it though its easy but
> gets really boring after a while
While we do audits in your store, you as an employee only do inventory. Believe me, WE do audits at Kmarts.
I have done them before. I enjoy them when they come up for a reasonable price.
I have done the audit shops for K-Mart. It is OK. You have to check prices in their current ad, and items in other departments. It is a total of 100 items. My K-Mart's person that walks around with me is great. (NOT the manager.) I actually enjoy working with her. I takes me about 1.5 hours. However, the report is very short and easy.
milliradian64 Wrote:
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> i work at kmart and we dont pay anyone to come in
> and do audits we do it all on our own i wish we
> did pay people to come do it though its easy but
> gets really boring after a while
It's interesting to see an employee of a company come into a MS forum and do a search for his employer. This is an old thread, last posted to three months ago, so the poster must have done a search to find it. Interesting that the poster registered and commented immediately on KMart. Kind of makes you wonder how many new posters might be mystery shoppers and how many might be employees of clients. Because our forum is so anonymous, we don't actually know who a poster is .... and, as Irene pointed out on another thread, if someone new to the forum posts or PMs asking questions about who shops who, we don't really know who they are.
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> i work at kmart and we dont pay anyone to come in
> and do audits we do it all on our own i wish we
> did pay people to come do it though its easy but
> gets really boring after a while
It's interesting to see an employee of a company come into a MS forum and do a search for his employer. This is an old thread, last posted to three months ago, so the poster must have done a search to find it. Interesting that the poster registered and commented immediately on KMart. Kind of makes you wonder how many new posters might be mystery shoppers and how many might be employees of clients. Because our forum is so anonymous, we don't actually know who a poster is .... and, as Irene pointed out on another thread, if someone new to the forum posts or PMs asking questions about who shops who, we don't really know who they are.
I am not and never have been an employees of K-mart. I'm an elementary teacher, retired. Maybe in Austin, they do their own. However, in Louisville, Ky., I get paid to do it.
AustinMom's post referred to the poster who said she is an employee of K-Mart. Her post on this old thread moved it up. I also think it is a national program.
Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It's not pie.
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." -Molly Ivins
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it really annoys the pig.
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." -Molly Ivins
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it really annoys the pig.
My post had nothing to do with your post or with audit shops in particular, stageangel. It was a comment on the post by milliradian64, whose post I quoted in my post.
AustinMom Wrote:
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> This is an old thread, last posted to
> three months ago, so the poster must have done a
> search to find it. ,,,,,<<<<
I agree with you, but the original post is three years old. The "new" poster went digging wwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy back. They could not find anything recent.
What some clients will do to endure the MS cycle. Or because the same MSC does both stores it could also be them.
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> This is an old thread, last posted to
> three months ago, so the poster must have done a
> search to find it. ,,,,,<<<<
I agree with you, but the original post is three years old. The "new" poster went digging wwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy back. They could not find anything recent.
What some clients will do to endure the MS cycle. Or because the same MSC does both stores it could also be them.
I have not complete one of these in a while because the price has gone down to about $20 for the same work.
The last one I did at Sears, the manager held me in his office for 30 minutes saying he had one last week and he did not want another one. He called around to confirm the information on my letter. I took about 3 hours in store and another 1 hour for the report.
The last one I did at Sears, the manager held me in his office for 30 minutes saying he had one last week and he did not want another one. He called around to confirm the information on my letter. I took about 3 hours in store and another 1 hour for the report.
I have done several Sear if it is the same MSC. It takes around 1 hour (it also depends on the size of the store). They are easy, with a quick report. The only thing is learning the signage, but once you study a little bit they come easy. Once I surprised a store manager saying that a price was not the one of the item on dispaly like he told me. He apologized
Shopper and auditor since March 2012.
Cover all center/north Oklahoma and south Kansas.
Cover all center/north Oklahoma and south Kansas.
There are a couple of them. One is for 50 items and the other 100. Neither pays enough anymore and never really did. The 100 items always averaged an 1 1/2, but if the store was bad could go much longer. I didn't mind the 50 items at a local Sears Hardware since they were fun to work with. Even so, when the priced dropped, I dropped those audits.
Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It's not pie.
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." -Molly Ivins
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it really annoys the pig.
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." -Molly Ivins
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it really annoys the pig.
What company does the sears and kmart audit? I don't belong to them.
We can't link clients and mystery shopping companies. It is against the guidelines of the forum and a violation of the Independent Contractor's Agreement with most MSCs.
Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It's not pie.
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." -Molly Ivins
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it really annoys the pig.
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." -Molly Ivins
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it really annoys the pig.
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