A day in the life of a Mystery Shopper

A typical day would start around 10 A.M after you get free with all your daily chores and errands. You would then turn to your computer and check your e-mail to see what all assignments you have for the day. After taking a look at the list, you would either select the ones you want, or go for all of them.

You then start to get ready for a great Mystery Shopping day ahead!

Let's say your first Mystery Shopping assignment for the day is visiting a grocery shop. You reach the shop and confirm the name and address before going in. Once you go in, you check upon some basic things like whether you are greeted by the employees, whether they are wearing their badges, how neat and tidy is the shop and so on. Also, since its morning time, you'll definitely check whether the vegetables are fresh or not. Once you are finished with your evaluation, you get your billing done and as soon as you sit inside your car, you quickly jot down your shopping experience and drive on to your next Mystery Shopping assignment.

Your second assignment could be anything, from visiting a garment store to eating out at a fast food outlet. Let's take it to be the former. You enter the store and again check on the basic things (employee badges, tidiness etc.).After that you head over to pick a pair of jeans. Here you might pretend that u can't find a particular colour and look confused. This would help you find out how quick the employees are in coming to your help. You could then buy or try out something more for further evaluation and get your merchandise charged out. All the while, you constantly make mental notes of everything u notice in the store and after coming out, you prepare a summary of your overall experience.

You drive back home and fill the evaluation forms for the two stores, email them to your Mystery Shopping Company, after which they mail out a check for your time and amount spent at the stores.

So, if it sounds like a fun job to you, then you are right! Mystery Shopping is, undoubtedly the most enjoyable job for every shopaholic.

Go ahead and give it try. Be a Mystery Shopper today!

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