Answers to Secret Shopper Qualification Quiz

 
1) After you receive your shopping assignment in the mail, what is the first thing a BEST shopper  
will do after reading over the assignment?  
>Schedule the shop.  
2) If you purchased something, you should:   
>Save the receipt, then fax it to the office with your name on it.  
3) Immediately after the shop, you should:  
>Sit down, have some coffee, write up the shop right away.  
4) Does the scenario you thought up allow the associate to meet all the categories?  
5) Why are meeting deadlines important to the team?  
>Companies have stringent deadlines, and they could lose accounts for shops that do not come in on time.
*You are one of thousands of shoppers, and if even 100 shoppers on a project act irresponsibly we would have major problems.  The industry is plagued with shopper cancellations.  We maintain a strict no renegotiation by the shopper, no future shopping assignment policy.  In other words, we are careful not to invite those shoppers to do work for us in the future.  
6) A choppy, "police report style" sentence looks like this.  "Drove up to booth.  Attendant's hair 
pulled back. Black shirt, red tie, looked nice."  Please write the proper way a shop should be   
written using the description above.
>It should sound something like this:  "I drove up to the booth after a four minute wait.  The parking attendant's hair was pulled back and appeared professional.  She had a black shirt and red tie.  It looked nice, and I received a positive first impression.
7) The Secret Shopper Company uses a descriptive style of reporting.  You should be able to   
show how your interaction is unique to someone who was not there.  Here are some terms 
commonly used in descriptions....try to come up with  better words that show the distinctiveness 
of the experience.
 
E X A M P L E: 

A)  very quick

expeditious

fast

conscientious

within 45 seconds

>Yours should look something like this:

A)  very neat  

clean  

pressed

sharp

well dressed

B)  wasn't very talkative

shy

evasive

unfocused 

voice was muffled and hard to hear

C)  very friendly  

amicable

neighborly

 gregarious

kind and caring

D)  quite helpful 

thoughtful 

attentive  

responsive

gave it his all  

E)  extremely rude  

patronizing

flippant

cold and harsh

snapped at us twice