My daughter is now 16. I know there are compliance shops for tobacco and alcohol, but I think the tobacco shops I have seen were 18 and over.

Does anyone know of any shops for 16/17 year olds? What MSC(s) have them (if any)?

In the past, I have seen several shop types for/involving teenagers.

1. The adult shopper needs a teenager for a gig at a game store. The adult and/or just the teenager does something. Games are rated for age/content/concerns. I am not eligible and have not looked for details.
2. Teenagers try to purchase tickets for R-rated movies (or whatever they are too young to see without parental presence and/or permission. Again, I do not have an eligible person and have no details.

Other shoppers might have more information. If so, they will let you know. Good luck to your daughter!

yes, I was aware of the meme stock store that did the games for teenagers. I was never interested in that. Guess I would rather have my kid attempt to buy smokes or liquor over video games. :-)

Yup. It seems like there are not many shops for kids, but at least you and your daughter can discuss and decide which shops she will complete. Would it be weird for you/for her to accompany you on some of your assignments? You could teach her to look for some details or common conditions that are asked about for many surveys. Perhaps she would like to practice the timings. You would do your own work and let her learn how to complete some work that she might age into in the near future. ?

@hbbigdaddy wrote:

My daughter is now 16. I know there are compliance shops for tobacco and alcohol, but I think the tobacco shops I have seen were 18 and over.

Does anyone know of any shops for 16/17 years old? What MSC(s) have them (if any)?

Confero is the company that has the rated R movie compliance checks she can do. My son reluctantly did one with me when he was 16. To be honest he's 18 now and still looks 15. You go in with her, and you enter at different times, she goes to the box office or concession stand, wherever tickets are sold and she attempts the purchase of a rated R film. They are supposed to ask her for ID, she says she does not have it, she does not produce it, they then tell her she can't purchase her ticket. She is then supposed to purchase an alternate ticket to a PG 13 or PG movie of her choice, she needs to be able to recall the exact details of the person who sold her ticket physical description as well as the conversation. You then approach the box office a few minutes later, so it looks like you are not together, and purchase a ticket for the same movie she did. You have to stay in the auditorium for a few minutes, then you are allowed to leave. I suggest leaving out the side doors if you are leaving together, or leaving separately out the side doors. This assignment was quite a predicament for me because I often do trailer checks for the location I did this assignment for, and as we went to leave, management who knew me were right outside the door taking the trash out, I turned my poor son back around so fast and shoved him back into the auditorium, he almost fell over. Haha.

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Daughter is now 17 but went on her first shop at six weeks old. She has grown up with it and goes with me (when allowed) and I have saved some of her "reports" and a drawing of a room service employee that is very accurate. She has become really good at picking up details quickly.

There have been times in the drive-thru (when a name is required) where I have had my daughter look while in the backseat so it's not obvious I'm doing it. I was doing shops before she was born, so she has grown up in this life. She knows not to ask for food places to eat that I can do as a shop. My rule is that I'm not going to pay a food place that i can get paid doing. So she knows to pick a place I cannot shop or I am not willing to shop.

@hbbigdaddy I would bring my teenager along with me to certain shops he was allowed to be on. His favorite though once he turned 18 was a wing place that I don't see anymore. His father and he would alternate when it was a male/female scenario I had to do, so I would always have a different male with me. Then he turned 21 and really liked going to that shop.