Anyone out there thats done both of these audits as well. The normal best buy audit is my bread & butter I've done close to 100 of those shops and love them but these god awful price audits man! I swore I'd never do one again but of coarse I got a huge bonus to do this one today and was able to couple it with the normal audit to make some big money on the day but shoot me! I love my normal audit but I jist cant get the pricing audit down. It always takes me FOREVER!

Im really interested in hearing from people who have done both and wondering if someone has tips on how to get the pricing audit done more quickly. And without a smasung phone...aka I have an iphone 5S so I cant just take an overall picture and then go home and zoom in, and my tablet camera is only 8 mega pixel.

Is there anyone out there actually entering the items one by one at the store into the app and able to get this thing done in like 5 hrs or less....its taking me like almost 8

omg I just finally finished this thing, I'm so done with these price audits, I should have never even reconsidered it

What's the difference between the two anyways? When I do my Best Buy Mystery CS Shops, we're required to buy a candy bar or something and obtain a receipt to prove we were at the location, etc... Well, I found sometimes the little sticker on the candy bar shelve doesn't always match up to what is rung up. It's a big jump from $1.29 to $1.91... and tax isn't THAT high....at least not yet anyways...lol.. I wonder.....

There's a huge difference. Price audits you're just getting prices of 300 audio items in the store.......the MSC keeps saying stores with 300 items are rare and people are average 150-200 items......from my experience with the audit I call BS both times I hit the 300 maximum inputs and could have continued well beyond with what was left at the store that I didn't get to. Not necessarily saying the MSC is outright lying but they may not be doing the best job confirming all the other audiors are actually getting all the items they're supposed to at each store. The other audit has a host of different categories: checking the weekly ad, checking planos, checking posted prices are correct, checking that functioning devices are functional, checking AOH quanities on out of stock items to make sure the store is stocking the shelves good, as well as a host of random things like checking bathrooms and corporate posters and fire exits, etc etc etc. I LOVE that audit but it's not for everyone....I see complaints about it all the time but I've been doing it so long now that I can bust it out like its nothing. Youre required to be at the store aminimum of 5 hrs though which is the annoying part to me cause there are small stores out there where I can legitimately get the audit done and the entire report finished while I'm still at the store in 3 1/2 hrs. I almost always have to slow myself down at every store to make sure I'm there 5 hrs unless the store has a lot of issues to document....there's been times where i couldn't go slow enough and I've had the entire report finished and had to sit in their warehouse and basically twittle my thumbs on my tablet checking out job boards for awhile until I hit my time restraint and can leave lol

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There's a huge difference. Price audits you're just getting prices of 300 audio items in the store.......the MSC keeps saying stores with 300 items are rare and people are average 150-200 items......from my experience with the audit I call BS both times I hit the 300 maximum inputs and could have continued well beyond with what was left at the store that I didn't get to. Not necessarily saying the MSC is outright lying but they may not be doing the best job confirming all the other audiors are actually getting all the items they're supposed to at each store. The other audit has a host of different categories: checking the weekly ad, checking planos, checking posted prices are correct, checking that functioning devices are functional, checking AOH quanities on out of stock items to make sure the store is stocking the shelves good, as well as a host of random things like checking bathrooms and corporate posters and fire exits, etc etc etc. I LOVE that audit but it's not for everyone....I see complaints about it all the time but I've been doing it so long now that I can bust it out like its nothing. Youre required to be at the store aminimum of 5 hrs though which is the annoying part to me cause there are small stores out there where I can legitimately get the audit done and the entire report finished while I'm still at the store in 3 1/2 hrs. I almost always have to slow myself down at every store to make sure I'm there 5 hrs unless the store has a lot of issues to document....there's been times where i couldn't go slow enough and I've had the entire report finished and had to sit in their warehouse and basically twittle my thumbs on my tablet checking out job boards for awhile until I hit my time restraint and can leave lol

Nice... What do you do when you suspect employee theft by any chance?

This is about Best Buy, but not about audits (not starting any new threads thank you). I just did their printer shop, which took 10 minutes and I was there anyway. Now I have to buy something for $1.25 (really). Candy bars costs $2.49, with cokes being the lest expensive at 1.79. I know this isn't a big deal, but really, can't they fully reimburse you, or just have you take a pic of the outside of the bldg for proof. I took pic of the printer. For a bit more aggravation the register would't scan the coke, so the Manager was called, and I was moved to a new register which wasn't opened, 20 minutes later, I was done and my coke was warm. Come on now!

I have only done the Target ones, and they are usually around 150 items. I can be in and out of the store in about 15 minutes, but the entry takes about an hour and a half. Not a bad thing to do sitting around half-watching TV at the end of the night.