You all know by now I'm totally a tech dinosaur.
Today, for the VERY first time, I did an IPSOS gas station. Using the IShopForIpsos app, I walked right through the entire shop/audit. For a tech person, it would have been seamless -- for me, there were a couple bumps in the road (part of the shop was a screenshot, so I had to open the website and put the screen shot in the report that way, then save the report and return to the app for the remainder of the shop; and a couple other stumbles on my part, not the app's fault at all).
All in all, I found it simple and easy.
Now, why do I say this is a game changer? Because I no longer have to lug my laptop and digital camera and try to find some public wifi or wait til I get to a hotel to submit hours and hours of reports. I often take 80 photos on a gas station audit. Then I download them and choose the right one for the right question. No matter the MSC, it always took at least an hour, and sometimes as much as 3 hours (operator incompetence, I admit!). And that, folks, severely limited the number of audits I could do in a day, or on a route. If a scheduler gave me extra time for reports, I could travel for two days and then take another entire day to report a maximum of about 8 shops.
This will, I believe, give me the freedom to do many more shops in the same time that I could only do a few using my laptop and digital camera.
Woo-hoo!!!
(This is no "humble brag". I'm quite proud of myself, even if I'm 10 years behind everybody else, LOL!)
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/26/2021 05:49AM by ceasesmith.