Person caught stealing from a store I was doing a mystery shop. How safe are we?
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I need to see this happen more at 5 Guys so these "bottom feeders" will stop taking shops at base pay. Maybe if people are too scared to go, then they will go unfilled and get bonused. I haven't done one in over a month now. I'm missing it. $20 minimum for me.
@hbbigdaddy wrote:
I need to see this happen more at 5 Guys so these "bottom feeders" will stop taking shops at base pay. Maybe if people are too scared to go, then they will go unfilled and get bonused. I haven't done one in over a month now. I'm missing it. $20 minimum for me.
Um, at "$20 minimum" I consider you a "bottom feeder."
Thanks @maverick1
they don't usually get to that level. So not a bottom feeder. More of a middle-feeder.
Saw one get to $18 in my area...but it was LAST 30 minutes.
they don't usually get to that level. So not a bottom feeder. More of a middle-feeder.
Saw one get to $18 in my area...but it was LAST 30 minutes.
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@sestrahelena wrote:
Johnb finds drama everywhere!
No, just telling you what happened and what is happening.
If things like this keep happening, the cost of mystery shopping will go up. People will also move to online shopping even more.
@johnb974 wrote:
If things like this keep happening, the cost of mystery shopping will go up. People will also move to online shopping even more.
Yeah, yeah, yeah...and shoplifting, let's correct that term, STEALING in blue cities like San Francisco where anything $900 and under is broadcast as NOT to be prosecuted is absolutely insane. No wonder companies are leaving California. Yet the "sheep" keep putting the mentally ill back in office.
It defies logic.
San Francisco is a dumpster fire but what other "blue cities" are being as ridiculous as SF?
@BusyBeeBuzzBuzzBuzz wrote:
San Francisco is a dumpster fire but what other "blue cities" are being as ridiculous as SF?
Portland, Chicago, Austin, Philadelphia, Seattle, Los Angeles, New York
Yes, we got the current DA of Los Angeles from SF and with him the limit which made it not a real crime if it was under $1,000 so people started stealing $999. That DA got an earful from Los Angeles.
But to say no one is ever going to go shopping anymore....just plain old shopping, not mystery shopping, in Los Angeles because John saw someone get frisked on the way out of the store is in my view a bit ludicrous. Rather, it is a happy day for many of us in LA that the store chose to stop the person. Stores have been telling security guards to just stand by and do nothing and let the "bad guys" just walk out with their loot. So this is a sign that maybe stores are beginning to fight back against the opportunists who are taking these chances thinking nothing will happen to them. Meanwhile I doubt people will start ordering their food from Amazon because of it. The grocery stores are as busy as ever and the bonuses are as missing as ever. So Maverick you would not ever be able to pay your rent if you waited for bonuses in LA. And I have not seen base level jobs not taken or fees going up. And Hbbigdaddy drives far and wide to get even the "middle" bonuses he gets.
But to say no one is ever going to go shopping anymore....just plain old shopping, not mystery shopping, in Los Angeles because John saw someone get frisked on the way out of the store is in my view a bit ludicrous. Rather, it is a happy day for many of us in LA that the store chose to stop the person. Stores have been telling security guards to just stand by and do nothing and let the "bad guys" just walk out with their loot. So this is a sign that maybe stores are beginning to fight back against the opportunists who are taking these chances thinking nothing will happen to them. Meanwhile I doubt people will start ordering their food from Amazon because of it. The grocery stores are as busy as ever and the bonuses are as missing as ever. So Maverick you would not ever be able to pay your rent if you waited for bonuses in LA. And I have not seen base level jobs not taken or fees going up. And Hbbigdaddy drives far and wide to get even the "middle" bonuses he gets.
@tstewart3 wrote:
@BusyBeeBuzzBuzzBuzz wrote:
San Francisco is a dumpster fire but what other "blue cities" are being as ridiculous as SF?
Portland, Chicago, Austin, Philadelphia, Seattle, Los Angeles, New York
Oakland and Sacramento are worse than SF.
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I have personally witnessed bipping in broad daylight - noon - in a full parking lot, twice.
My sister would say, "Chill." People shoplift and people pickpocket. Shoplifters take from the store, not the individual shopper. Pick pockets take from people with no knowledge whatsoever if the person is a mystery shopper or not. One might speculate, however, that the MS shopper is less prone to pick pockets as the MS shopper makes a practice of being constantly alert to everything while on the job.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/24/2023 02:51AM by Rousseau.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/24/2023 02:51AM by Rousseau.
Shoplifting is nothing new. I'm actually surprised I don't see more of that given how there are security guards posted at half the Krogers I shop at. I see them escort crazy people out so the cashiers don't have to deal with them. I did my first mattress shop today in a downtown area and had to knock on the door to get an associate to let me in. He said they have to do it given all the riff raff in that location.
@Mellifluy wrote:
Shoplifting is nothing new. I'm actually surprised I don't see more of that given how there are security guards posted at half the Krogers I shop at. I see them escort crazy people out so the cashiers don't have to deal with them. I did my first mattress shop today in a downtown area and had to knock on the door to get an associate to let me in. He said they have to do it given all the riff raff in that location.
More power to you...
Any neighborhood where I need to knock on a door to conduct business is not a place I would visit.
Well, um, maybe if there was a "hottie" on the other side of the door offering "favors." (pregnant pause) No, not then either! Eww!!!
As to the original question, I would not feel unsafe if someone else were caught shoplifting. Shoplifting is not a violent crime that would directly affect me. I worry more about carjackings, personal robberies and shootings. Each time I come home with my vehicle, personal effects, and body intact- it's a good day!
As mystery shoppers we start going to stores more frequently than we did before. We start seeing these tyoes of things more frequently. Not necessarily because they are happening more often than before, but because we are there to see them more often than before.
My own observation has to do with panhandlers. Before msytery shopping, I might occasionally be approached by a panhandler at a gas station. When I started doing a lot of gas station audits, I started getting appoached a lot. Not because panhandling suddenly because more prevalent, but because I was going to more gas stations.
My own observation has to do with panhandlers. Before msytery shopping, I might occasionally be approached by a panhandler at a gas station. When I started doing a lot of gas station audits, I started getting appoached a lot. Not because panhandling suddenly because more prevalent, but because I was going to more gas stations.
I guess I'm as safe in a shop as a mystery shopper as I would be as a customer.
I was in a McDonald's on a mystery shop when a domestic dispute started up. Trays were being thrown, screaming and yelling. Most of the customers managed to slip out the door.
Years ago, and my danger as a mystery shopper was the same as everyone's.
I was in a McDonald's on a mystery shop when a domestic dispute started up. Trays were being thrown, screaming and yelling. Most of the customers managed to slip out the door.
Years ago, and my danger as a mystery shopper was the same as everyone's.
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@Mellifluy wrote:
I did my first mattress shop today in a downtown area and had to knock on the door to get an associate to let me in.
Sometimes I wish the door was locked. Walked into a mattress store in the middle of the day last year and no one greeted me. Heard sounds. Walked around. Saw the store associate on a mattress in the literal middle of the store performing an act upon a gentleman, also on the display mattress. Neither heard or saw me. I quickly departed.
Yeah, wish the door had been locked.
Doing assignments since the days when reports were handwritten and faxed to the MSC.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/23/2023 03:21PM by Sagacious.
There's always got to be "that guy" who brings politics into it.
Yikes! Did you abort the shop, or report what you saw?
@Sagacious wrote:
Sometimes I wish the door was locked. Walked into a mattress store in the middle of the day last year and no one greeted me. Heard sounds. Walked around. Saw the store associate on a mattress in the literal middle of the store performing an act upon a gentleman, also on the display mattress. Neither heard or saw me. I quickly departed.
Yeah, wish the door had been locked.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt
@Sagacious wrote:
@Mellifluy wrote:
I did my first mattress shop today in a downtown area and had to knock on the door to get an associate to let me in.
Sometimes I wish the door was locked. Walked into a mattress store in the middle of the day last year and no one greeted me. Heard sounds. Walked around. Saw the store associate on a mattress in the literal middle of the store performing an act upon a gentleman, also on the display mattress. Neither heard or saw me. I quickly departed.
Yeah, wish the door had been locked.
Apparently, those folks weren't the "Weenee" bit sagacious of others!
@KathyG wrote:
Yikes! Did you abort the shop, or report what you saw?
It wasn't really a shop, per se. I had entered the store for a different type of project. But I did decide to call the store later to tell the associate about her carelessness, especially given the stairs outside by which they could have easily been seen. She was very tearful and, I'm sure, mortified. I doubt she'd do it again.
I've been in the same store since then for the same project but she was not there.
Doing assignments since the days when reports were handwritten and faxed to the MSC.
Maybe she thought the Beautyrest was a Bootyrest.
He was probably the one resting his booty. She was performing.
@Sagacious wrote:
@KathyG wrote:
Yikes! Did you abort the shop, or report what you saw?
It wasn't really a shop, per se. I had entered the store for a different type of project. But I did decide to call the store later to tell the associate about her carelessness, especially given the stairs outside by which they could have easily been seen. She was very tearful and, I'm sure, mortified. I doubt she'd do it again.
I've been in the same store since then for the same project but she was not there.
That was kind. I probably would have just pretended I didn't see anything.
Gross and nasty. What if there had been children around?@Sagacious wrote:
@Mellifluy wrote:
I did my first mattress shop today in a downtown area and had to knock on the door to get an associate to let me in.
Sometimes I wish the door was locked. Walked into a mattress store in the middle of the day last year and no one greeted me. Heard sounds. Walked around. Saw the store associate on a mattress in the literal middle of the store performing an act upon a gentleman, also on the display mattress. Neither heard or saw me. I quickly departed.
Yeah, wish the door had been locked.
@maverick1 wrote:
Well, um, maybe if there was a "hottie" on the other side of the door offering "favors." (pregnant pause) No, not then either! Eww!!!
How long was that pregnant pause? 9 months you say? Hmm i guess that hottie was offering :"favors" after all.
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