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August 22, 2008 08:33PM
Yesterday I went to Carl's Jr to do a shop, I was waiting for my food to be delivery to my table, just looking here and there, when this gentleman was walking with his food and before he can put his food over the table, his shorts just fell down his knees and he wasn't wearing underwear!!, he drop his food over the table and very fast he pull up his shots, he looked at me with his eyes wide open and said "You saw what happened?", I said "Yes, I saw what happened", and I just turned my head to the other side and started looking out the window, ending the conversation.
Isabel
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August 22, 2008 10:27PM
Are you serious?

That isn't funny it's absolutely hilarious.
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August 23, 2008 04:00AM
I would have said "No, I didn't notice. What happened?"
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August 23, 2008 06:52PM
How Funny!! I'd said "yes I saw that but didn't see anything remotely interesting!!" LOL!!

I wasn't on a shop and we were eating at a local restaurant, not a chain. We were with another couple and the waitress Dumped an entire plate of spaghetti in his lap. (the man we were with) She Grunted and stalked off. I think she was mad at him over something.

I'd been telling my husband I suspected he was carousing. The waitress must have been a carousee. LOL!!
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August 24, 2008 06:03AM
Edited.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/24/2008 06:05AM by Sandra Sue.
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August 26, 2008 05:21AM
When I told my hubby what happened, he said " Are you doing shops or are you looking at other males stuff?", I said "Honey, after 42 years of marriage, I didn't see anything new!!"

Isabel
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August 27, 2008 05:18AM
Any other weird stories of shop happenings?
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September 03, 2008 05:51AM
I shopped a value store about a year ago. Kind of like an independent dollar store. A customer walked in, bought a crowbar, then proceeded to knock the glass out of a window. The customer comes back into the store and asks if he can return it.

He locked his keys in the car and didn't want the police to come...found out because he didn't have a driver's license.
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September 08, 2008 04:40AM
I went to do a gas station with pictures (no CoRi), I was taking the outside pictures from the pumps and parking lot, when the franchise owner just drive by me, stop her car and asked who I was, and for who I was working, I play stupid and I told her that "I was nobody and I wasn't working, I just had changed the batteries on my camera and I was checking if the pictures were okay", and because my car was at the pump, I just pumped few dollars with my ATM card (like I was a regular customer, because her husband was still outside checking around the pumps) and I left without doing the shop, then I contacted the company and explain what happened and I asked to be removed from the shop.

Isabel
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September 08, 2008 06:15AM
>...I told her that "I was nobody..."

Poor Izzy. You're just a "nobody." That was clever. I freeze up when something unexpected happens. Buying gas wasn't part of the gas shop?
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September 09, 2008 05:31AM
Yes, was part of the shop, but I have to go inside and buy a hot dog and pay inside for the hot dog and $5.00 on gas, should be one receipt only, if I finish the shop she will know who was the shopper, and then I will be banned to do this company again, I do several stores for this company every other month.
Isabel
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September 09, 2008 05:42PM
I've done photo shops for service stations and other companies but I always had a statement to the manager to authorize me to take photos. Isn't it illegal to take photos without authorization? Something about privacy issues?

I would be very cautious about taking photos without some type of authorization. There's the strong possibility you could get sued. And it would be You getting sued. Not the shopping company since you are a private contractor.
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September 10, 2008 03:00AM
Another weird thing: I did a bank this week, and my DVR slipped out of my bra down into my polo shirt.
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September 10, 2008 04:52AM
billie, the shop required pumps and parking lot pictures, go inside pay for gas, a hot dog, check coolers doors, candies section, condiments, coffee, fountain and customer service, pump you gas and taste the hot dog, it's a mystery shop, not a audit, I can't tell the manager who I am, she/he will ID me. This is the only store that the MS company required pictures, because is a franchise, the other don't.

Isabel
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September 10, 2008 04:55AM
sneakers, and then... what happened, the employee saw you or you just acted like nothing happened?
Isabel
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September 10, 2008 02:29PM
Izzy you said yourself you did not complete the shop because of the franchise owner and her husband being suspicious. And they happened to drive up while you were taking pictures. If you knew they were the franchise owners wouldn't it have worked much better to have had an authorization of some sort with you to show them you were legit? Wouldn't have to be one they have to sign just one they could see. Your lucky they didn't call the police. They could have thought you were "smoking over" their business to come back later and rob them. Or worse a terrorist thinking of blowing up their gas tanks?

I know what I'm saying is a stretch but in my neck of the woods everyone is on alert for anything that looks suspicious.

These companies know they are being shopped on a regular basis. They just aren't aware of who is doing the shopping.
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September 11, 2008 12:53AM
izzyshop Wrote:
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> sneakers, and then... what happened, the employee
> saw you or you just acted like nothing happened?
> Isabel
> Enjoy Life


No, she didn't see anything, but the rest of the recording from my waistline wasn't very good. I tried a microphone a few months ago, but it didn't work out well.
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September 17, 2008 05:56AM
I went to a Wendy's to do a price audit. The address I was given wasn't quite right, and there was no number on the door, but #72 was across the street.

"My friend asked me to meet her at Wendy's. Is this 95 E. Main St.?"
"I don't know. This is Wendy's."
"Is this the only Wendy's in the area?"
"I don't know."
"Does anyone here speak better English?"
"No."
I took my chances and did the audit. I don't really care if the MSP never hires me again.
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September 17, 2008 03:12PM
How many Wendy's could there be on the same street sneakers? I've had the same thing happen with a not quite right address and did the shop or audit anyway. And everything was fine. But I do make a comment telling them the address they have is not the correct address and give them the correct address.

Reminds me of the Kiss-a-me/Kissimmee joke. LOL!!
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September 17, 2008 07:15PM
This was not crazy. There can be 2 within a mile here, which is how this looked. There's a long street called XXX Rd., which runs through 2 towns and one city. There are 3 Dunkin Donuts, 2 Burger Kings and 2 Staples. There are 2 Pathmark supermarkets within a mile on Central Ave., and I shopped the wrong one a few months ago. On my street, which is about 4 mile long, there are 3 CVS's....

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/27/2008 05:46PM by sneakers.
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September 17, 2008 10:30PM
Wow that's a lot of stuff on one street sneakers. We do have 12 Super Wal Mart's within 20 miles but they are all on different streets or Blvd. 4 in our immediate area separated by 10miles or so and still on different streets or Blvd.

Wilma Rudolph our longest Blvd is 15-18miles long and still only one of each store is there. Our longest Blvd is over 20miles long and still only one of each store.

What I find amusing is they will have the business with a wrong location. I have a GPS Navigator and it will tell me if the address is right or wrong. I can punch in Wal Mart and get 12 different locations. Then when I punch in the address I have been given, my navation system will tell me it is not the right address. It will say "there is not a Wal Mart at this address" LOL!!

There's only been one time I could not find a shop. The map, which I have learned to NOT use, was wrong. I finally ended up calling and asking how to get there. As it happened it was a new business and was not in my GPS system.

I know you most likely live in a big city sneakers and more than likely there are a lot more businesses than we have here. My city is not exactly small ergo: 12 Super Wal Marts but it is easy to navigate.
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September 18, 2008 05:53AM
I shop the whole lower part of the county, a suburb of NYC. 999,998 of the population are shoppers, the other 2 are schedulers.
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September 18, 2008 01:58PM
LOL!!!

They do the franchises by population and I'm more than positive you have a larger population per city block than we do which would account for more than one Wendy's on a street.
Our population at last count, going by new home owners (the only accurate way they have to determine mid census) is 185,000 within our city limits. Our county takes in 5 communities. There are 350,000 military at any given moment in time. They are considered transient and not counted in the overall population.

And at last count we were the 9th fastest growing city in the USA.
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September 18, 2008 05:02PM
My county has a pop of almost a million, my city, just a SUBURB of NYC, has 250,00. Apartment bldgs help the density. The New York metropolitan area, with an estimated 19,750,000 people in three states, is the largest metropolitan area in the nation.

Thus on a major street about 7 miles long, there can be 2 Wendy's, etc. LOL. And, 19,749,990 people are shoppers and 10 are schedulers.

No one could ever do MSing here full time, unless they stayed up at their computer 24-7. Except in undesirable areas, many jobs fly off the boards as soon as you get the email. As I was explaining a few months ago, you also can't go too far out of your area because of traffic, bridges, tunnels, lack of parking and other profit-stealing factors. I get offered bonused shops in the city, but I'm not going into midtown traffic, pay $20 to park my car and walk 6 blocks.

An interesting and useless stat I've compiled: In my county, there are 7 Staples, 8 Sleepy's Mattresses and only 1 Office Depot. Haven't counted the Dunkins and Subways yet. Unfortunately the Sleepy's shop, which takes about an hour, pays only $7. LOL.
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October 15, 2012 01:54PM
I did a Shell gas shop route yesterday. Tapped to the transaction window of one of the stations was a baggie with some kind of herb, no label. This baggie shows up in my photos of the employee behind the counter.

I did not know how to answer the question about Drug paraphernalia, it was not one of the options because it was not paraphernalia, but the drug?

I can imagine when the editor looks at my photos or when the owner gets the report and with this picture.

I need to find a route in a better neighborhood or get more pay.
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October 15, 2012 04:53PM
I was on a shop where you could bring someone to the store with you. While there at this department store my husband decided to try on some new dress pants and when he emerged from the dressing room another customer tried to give him fashion advice. That wouldn't have been so far out had the other customer not been a big burly man standing about 6'6" who was wearing ladies clothing at the time. It was either fortunate or unfortunate, depending on how you looked at it, that this person had good taste and was right on when he said those slacks didn't flatter my husband's rump. Suffice it to say my husband has never accompanied me on one of those shops again.

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