Is it ever appropriate to reveal you're a mystery shopper?

dawnhu · 2018-07-21T01:43:58+00:00

Had a semi odd situation when I did my shop today. This location was slammed and location was in a rough part of town. There was a cop parked in front of it. I was actually done with the shop and was taking a photo of the outside of the location.for proof of visit...cop is watching me. I'm not paying attention..I just want a good picture of the store exterior..one of the customers exits and says...very loudly don't take my f...ing picture. I told him I didn't..and he starts to ramble on about invasion of privacy yada,yada,yada..and I told him..fine, I'll delete the picture and he says good and walks off..thankfully nothing esculated here..but what I wanted to know is if the cop would have approached..and asked why I was taking pictures..do you let them know your a mystery shopper.. Just a side note here..there was a bank in very close proximity and see through windows so you could see the people in line..I could not get a good picture of the store exterior without having the bank in the picture too Shopping Idaho and Oregon/Idaho border region. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/21/2018 01:44AM by dawnhu.

Is it ever appropriate to reveal you're a mystery shopper?

July 28, 2018 09:47PM

I was taking pictures at McDonald's once because they wanted pictures of the menu board. The manager came over to me and said that they didn't allow pictures. I said I was taking pictures of the menu board so my husband could order something. She was like, "oh, okay" and left.

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