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    True Secret Shopper Diaries -- How NOT To Get Caught: Your Plucky New Life -- On Purpose, #2
    True Secret Shopper Diaries -- How NOT To Get Caught: Your Plucky New Life -- On Purpose, #2
    True Secret Shopper Diaries -- How NOT To Get Caught: Your Plucky New Life -- On Purpose, #2
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    True Secret Shopper Diaries -- How NOT To Get Caught: Your Plucky New Life -- On Purpose, #2

    By Alexie Linn

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    Have you ever pictured your life as a secret shopper? Do you share my old attitude of 'that's a job for a bored homemaker's pin money' or 'that's all a scam'?

    Surprise! It's neither – if you know how to play your cards right.

    True Secret Shopper Diaries is a tell all book that paints a picture in words of what a secret shopper actually does; where one has to live; what special tools and skills are required; how to make more than pin money shopping; and answers the question, “Just how old is this profession?”.

    Armed with this quick read, you can paint yourself into the picture and decide whether to make mystery shopping the next step to promote your own plucky new life. I am armed. I may do this – because now I know I can.

    Happy Trails and Tales,

    Alexie

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMA Deeter Company
    Release dateJan 4, 2017
    ISBN9781386046110
    True Secret Shopper Diaries -- How NOT To Get Caught: Your Plucky New Life -- On Purpose, #2
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    Alexie Linn

    Alexie Linn was born and raised in the 'mild' Pacific Northwest -- where the snow drifts are never higher than the barn roofs.  Her first year of married life was lived in Alaska, in a tent and a homesteader's cabin -- where she got closely acquainted with sourdough and beans.  She escaped to the desert southwest, became a widow, and life then began. Alexie is a papered Life Coach, Nutritional Therapist, and Counselor with a vivid -- sometimes outrageous imagination. She's also a slave to Joan Freed, the rebel life coach who, somehow, manages to come out on top of her mysterious and chaotic adventures.

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      True Secret Shopper Diaries -- How NOT To Get Caught - Alexie Linn

      Forward

      As told to Alexie Linn to protect the identity of this CI, SS, CPI, FA, MS, US.... 

      Onward!

      Prologue

      Mystery shoppers, aka secret shoppers, aka field agents, aka corporate inspectors.....all refer to the tools used by market research companies for a potpourri of objectives in this, the 21st century, but that's not how mystery shopping started out.

      The profession of secret shopping, firmly established by the 1940's, enlisted undercover agents to, put succinctly, 'spy' on their own stores and employees.  Corporate America wanted to know how each of their storefronts were doing with the:

      Quality of customer care

      Integrity of employees

      Compliance with regulations

      In a nutshell, Mystery shoppers made it possible for corporate America to succeed—how's that for a trophy and a burden?

      Introduction

      ––––––––

      Welcome to my world. 

      You won't remember our encounter.  You didn't see me perpetually glancing at my watch or silently repeating the name, age, height, and hair specifics of the cashier—my technique of writing details to my short term memory.  At least in our now times of smart phones, I can pretend I'm texting and can sometimes—depending on the job—actually write down details in plain sight. 

      I'm unobtrusive and invisible—except as a customer.  I'm just one more person in the checkout

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