I did a shop at a local small grocery store in my town. The requirements were to shop in all departments and revue each with photos. They wanted names or descriptions of each employee that I spoke to - it’s medium size grocery store for a small chain company. Most of the departments are within hearing range of each other.

i got the photos and some names but described most of the employees because I thought running around the store and recording everyone’s name would be odd. They wanted names of :

meat dept employee

deli employee

produce employee

grocery worker

manager

grocery clerk

bagging clerk

i submitted a very thoughtful review and spent over 30 min in the store (for $5) and it was rejected because I didn’t get enough names and chose to describe most of the employees (says: Employee Name OR Description

I’m definitely going to let people know what a rip off this site is! I’m just a little bitter!!

They seem to find a lot of ways not to pay. I did a store where I had to go to each dept and ask questions. It was a small grocery store and walking around asking everyone their name or staring at everyone’s name tags would have been weird. I took excellent photos and answered every question. The instructions specifically said “record the name or a description of who you spoke to in each dept.) They wanted me to go back and get the name of everyone I spoke to and I told them that they could bite it.

I followed their instructions perfectly and got no pay and a low rating - I think I’m done being ripped off. Good luck to you!

The reason I blame this site is because when I wouldn’t go back again (for the same $5) I got a low rating and now cannot choose any shops which is the sites fault - the customer shouldn’t be allowed to do what this customer did but the site let them.

I’m glad for you but can only think at 5.00 a pop and if the amount of info this customer wanted is normal, you must do this a lot because my experience here is that they want a lot for a little and to them, secret shoppers are expendable - I’m on another site that actually pays now so I’ll be deleting this one. A shop like this on my new ap would pay $35.00

I guess the fact that I went the extra mile and took extra pics and recorded extensive data, followed directions to the letter but was still asked to go back because a customer changed their mind about their own instructions is insulting but when I said no, I was “demoted” and now have -50 points with NO RECOURSE.

I think that speaks volumes about the opportunities that will come up on this site... good luck to you