I haven't done any lately, but have done both stores with no problems. I agree the person they send along with you can make it easy or turn it to a nightmare. Most of the ones I've done had less than ten incorrect scans. They're a welcome change from MSing sometimes.

I had a store with about 20 errors because the employees just didn't care. The manager decided to correct them as we went along and was constantly answering pages or being pulled away by employees. It was a nightmare and I would not go back for three times the fee they pay now.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/24/2012 03:28PM by LisaSTL.

AustinMom Wrote:
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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
>
>
> 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.


to be honest i dont know what this sight is i was messing around on the internet 1 day and saw people talking about kmart and audits and so i commented because i like talking about stuff i actually know about i wasent trying to be whatever an MS is or anything and i didnt go back that far on purpose i was just reading what people was saying and saw something about audits sorry for making you think anything so i trully am sorry i thought this was like a blog

AustinMom Wrote:
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> milliradian64 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > 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.


thats what i was doing i was google searching to what RMU stood for on google and seems how RMU was mentioned on here it came up on google as a resource and i clicked on it

I grabbed a Kmart today because the fee went up. Haven't done one in a long time, I've got a grocery shop next door. I was going to pick up a Sears audit in the same shopping center, until I saw it was 23 pages. Sorry - they are not paying enough to waste that much ink and paper.

Oh, no... the nitemares!!! My Sears audit was the absolute worst experience in my MSing career. I spent about 7 hours in it in total. It wasn't the fault of either Sears or the MSC. I was about 90 minutes into the shop and things were going great.

Then the tornado warnings start. We are forced by security to stay in the storm shelter for nearly an hour. Power flashes on and off a few times. After getting released, take a few minutes to relax and regroup while the manager is running around checking things. Now have been in the store for 3 hours. Try to continue, but the computer system hasn't come back up so can't check the prices. Tech support tells the manager it will be up within 20 minutes. Over an hour later and it still isn't functioning. I do walk around the store during this time and write all the prices based on the tags and signs, figuring it will make it quick to scan when everything is back up. Call the MS for direction and after going back and forth with a number of people I am given permission to leave and return the next day to finish it and still use the information I collected. I am also told that because I went above and beyond, they will give me a bonus.

Return the next day, registers are now working, but handheld scanners are not. THe registers need more info than what I needed to put on the report, so they can't just put in the SKUs I have, so I have to find everything on a shelf, pull it off and take to register. A few things had gone on sale overnight, so now my numbers in each category are wrong. Have to readjust that.

Finally finish... 6.5 hours total in the store, nearly an hour on the report. A lot of questions about why it took so long. Bonus NEVER comes.... Sigh.