Every year in the United States alone companies spend over 1.5 Billion Dollars on mystery shopping, to better understand their customers and refine their businesses. Mystery shopping has been around since the 1960's and today is a very legitimate and necessary part of doing business. Store owners and management need to know how to improve their businesses and better serve their customers. The very best way for businesses to find out exactly what they need to do to improve their customer service is to employ mystery shoppers to tell them exactly what the average customer experiences when shopping at their store. That's why mystery shopping is a 1.5 Billion Dollar business (and growing).

So what is a mystery shopper and what do they do?

A mystery shopper (also called a 'secret shopper') is someone who is hired to pose as a regular customer at a store or restaurant, so that they can report back what the average customer experience is for that establishment. The mystery shopper is given a specific assignment to shop at a specific store, reports on exactly happened when he or she visited the store, and is then paid for shopping (and usually gets to keep whatever he bought for free!). It's that simple.

In many ways, mystery shopping is the perfect job. Mystery shoppers can be virtually any age or gender. It's the perfect opportunity for stay at home moms, for example, but there are also of plenty of mystery shoppers who are men.

You decide when and if you work to fit whatever hours suit you best - you are never obligated to take any assignment and can pick and choose which mystery shopping assignments you like.

Here's an example of what it's like to be a mystery shopper:

Wall Street Journal, Online Edition June 9, 2004:

"Cheers," she said, hoisting a frosty Corona with lime. Tanned and relaxed after playing a few holes, she finished up the beer and ate a cheeseburger. The golf and burgers were all part of the job, as were the strict instructions from her boss to 'consume at least one alcoholic beverage." That was her afternoon. Her morning was spent dress shopping, cashing a check at a bank, and looking at new cars. In the evening she ate dinner with a friend at a, "nice Italian restaurant." Everything she did was a paid job. She made about $300 that day. "Can you believe they call this work?" she asked. And what does this shopper make on a monthly basis? According to The Wall Street Journal, "she made nearly $7,000" the month before the article was written, i.e. in May, 2004.

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