Grocery price audits

Anyone able to complete these to the MSC and client approval? After 3 hours and 3/4 miles walking around the store I had to leave, with apparently 25% inventory completed. The problem is the category groupings are not in the same aisle, not only in one place and sometimes only on an endcap. Also, I had to get on my knees to photography the shelf price. Geez.

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I will not do the scan ones anymore. Takes too long and it wipes out my battery before I even get close to an acceptable amount. I can do the price audits where enter the price of the selected list of merchandise in about half an hour now.

I've tried the warehouse price scan and no amount of money will get me to even consider that again. I did one at the bullseye store and that wasn't too bad but it still took way too long and it's hard to do it without being identified.

I got an audit store offer for $12.00. Hahahaha. Not even $120.00 would be enough for 1,000 items.

Don't you get caught by the store?!?

I never have had anybody question what I'm doing.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/04/2021 05:38PM by foodluvr.

I did a few drug store ones, 50 items for $15. That was doable. I can't imagine 1800 items.

"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton

Recently, I have seen pricing shops where you have to get the price of every item in Costco. Definitely a ten-footer for me!

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@myst4au wrote:

Recently, I have seen pricing shops where you have to get the price of every item in Costco. Definitely a ten-footer for me!

You have to scan every barcode of product in the store and enter the price for these and it is not worth it.

Now the other project is the list of about 100 items that they give you and you have to find the price for it is much easier to do and a lot quicker.

My 2 attempts at this type of shop, one successful and one not, is the items are categorized in the MissionsApp but the items are not located on only ONE aisle. Traipsing around the store I logged 3/4 of a mile. spent 3 hours and still did not complete the minimum price checks. Do you find these only on one aisle?

@big_sky_thunder wrote:

My 2 attempts at this type of shop, one successful and one not, is the items are categorized in the MissionsApp but the items are not located on only ONE aisle. Traipsing around the store I logged 3/4 of a mile. spent 3 hours and still did not complete the minimum price checks. Do you find these only on one aisle?

No! None of it is on one aisle. The predetermined list where you just get the price and sale price and don't have to scan anything is the ones I can do fairly quickly after the first time once I know where everything is in the store.

The issue I have with these is the lists are disaster and stuff is not even close to categorized correctly and even when you give feedback it goes unaddressed

@foodluvr wrote:

The issue I have with these is the lists are disaster and stuff is not even close to categorized correctly and even when you give feedback it goes unaddressed

Thanks for sharing that observation. I had considered doing one of these, but I don't want to go around trying to figure out where an item is if it's not located in the category on the list!

This has become a ten foot pole avoider.

The warehouse club price audit gets tricky because the items move every week. It's the same stuff but it's always in a different place. And then the scan and go takes forever because you have to scan one of each item in the entire Warehouse good luck doing that and not being caught.

I really enjoy doing the warehouse scans. I have done it 6 times in the past 7 weeks. I have a route I take through the store to make sure I get all the items. I get just under 1900 scans in under 6 hours. The first couple took me about 7 hours over a couple of visits since my phone battery drained and I didn’t know the layout of the warehouse. Now I take a power block to plug my phone into once the power gets low so that I can finish in one visit. I also take advantage of the samples form the demo carts so I don’t have to stop for a lunch break.

I was a little nervous the first couple of times that I would be approached about what I was doing, but no one really cares. Now most of the employees recognize me and greet me like I belong there.

Yoya301, this is nice to read. I don't mind the traipse around the grocery store scavenger hunt price checks (if the price is right) but I did one of those warehouse shops and absolutely hated it, top of my 10' pole list. I think it was going in and out of the freezers to scan that finally broke me. But one shopper's 10' pole topper just leaves more for other shoppers to scoop up.

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