Economy

It feels like a little slow mystery shop wise for me right now. I'm in a big tourist destination. Feels like not a lot of restaurant and attraction shops out there like there has been before. Been a shopper since 2016. Wonder if anyone else feels this way?

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May has been my busiest mystery shopping month this year, both in quantity and dollars. I could so many more shops if I shopped on weekends. To get more shops, you might need to branch out into more different types of shops, or maybe you are just in the wrong geographical area.
We aren't in a touristy area, but I have noticed a sharp decline in the usual restaurant shops that my son and I do. We did get a couple Mellow Mushrooms last month. But it's been a while since we've done any of the others that we usually do.
Well, if you use Disney's Magic Kingdom attendance as a benchmark for family vacation spending, it appears that Disney has reached pricing levels that breaks budgets.

On the plus side, if you plan on going, attraction lines appear to be much shorter now.

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I am seeing many of the same shops. Maybe some I don't do have decreased, but the ones I do are still running full-force. Are you sure the shops you like have not changed MSC and you are just not aware of the new MSC?

Heck, we even saw the 3 letter chicken wing national chain sportsbar get added as a restaurant shop in April or May. That was a nice addition. They had those crappy bar audits I would not do. But now they have the dining room scenarios!
miss going to Dland. we walked there as kids and it was $3.95 for teens! Trying to get there and to Huntington before the end of the year.
Definitely some sparser job boards in these parts of late, even with my expanded mileage ranges looking for possible routes.

I've got my usual credit union and car wash stops booked for June, and I bit the bullet and bought a PV-500/button cam rig to actively pursue apartment video shops again after a considerable hiatus. Hopefully I can pay for that with 3 or 4 assignments. First one is booked for $140, and there are some big bonuses that I need to roll over into next week, so fingers crossed.

It's end-of-quarter for my gas station brands, so I'm hoping to see things pick up for them starting next month.

Have synthesizers, will travel...
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Cool, white sports tape is your friend.

Curious, to position the camera? Or another use?
Rosie, to keep the camera from moving around a lot. I wore a skin tight tank top under my purple shirt. the button cam went in the shirt, the wire to the cam was taped to the undershirt, kept the cam facing forward and not turning sideways. Other folks can probably do that without the tank top, but I'm allergic to the adhesive on the medical tape.
The US economy is fine. Watch the first half of this video from a wealth management group.
Included in the banter, at about 20 mins into the video you'll hear about debt and tariffs and then you'll see data regarding the amount of cash equivalents that US consumers have available.

The US economy is fine..
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The USA has the biggest economy in the world and it has been that way with the largest GDP since at least around 1900. It has grown every year, but there was a negative in the first part of 2020. There will be some, and have been a few setbacks recently as a result in part of all the tariff talk. Additionally, there is some concern about the proposed Big Beautiful Bill that has a built-in additional 3 trillion addition to the national debt. The world has reacted, US businesses have stopped purchasing goods, the dollar value reduced, and the US credit rating dropped. There has been an overwhelming tainted climate that nobody in business, worldwide or local, likes, and that is uncertainty. USA credit rating has been downgraded! @greenwhite.... you mentioned you live in a tourist destination. Well for sure those areas will take a hit as they will lose most overseas travelers. They are not coming to the USA. Disneyland, Vegas, and the like have and are taking hits as the world turns sour on the USA policy and rhetoric. However, as someone else stated, I am as busy as ever, or as I want to be. You might try shops you never really considered before. That is what I have done. When one door closes, I have looked behind a door I never considered before and found a new stream of revenue.
@Morledzep wrote:

Cool, white sports tape is your friend.

I use Velcro. A strip on the backside of the placket, and a little tab on the camera wire to secure it in position.

Have synthesizers, will travel...
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