04/19/10 Update --- We have new clients in Atlanta! If you are in or around the Atlanta area let us hear from you!

10/01/09 Update --- We have new clients in the resort and golf industries and need shoppers! If you play golf let us hear from you! We need shoppers from every state nationwide!

09/20/09 Update --- We have new clients in New York! If you are in or around the New York area let us hear from you!

Are you wanting to be a guest shopper? We are always on the look-out for quality guest shoppers to help us out in ALL Industries! Let us hear from you! Simply Click here to register with us and fill out the short form. It is absolutely free to register with us! No hidden fees or any of that nonsense! And besides.. we are going to pay you for something that you already enjoy!

Search for shopping jobs with other companies! Yes that is right, with us you can search for shopping jobs with other companies! We know times are tough and we also know that we cant hire everyone that registers with us so please search for other shopping jobs with other companies! We want you to be able to keep doing what you love! Search Nationwide for other Mystery Shopping Jobs that are available from other companies! We dont make our shoppers work for us exclusively so you can also search for Mystery Shopping Jobs Nationwide from other companies!

Agencies - Post your job listings on our mystery shopping job board! We offer agency discounts and deep savings for 100+ listings! Make sure you contact us before you post your jobs!

Companies and Businesses - Are you looking for our services? Simply contact us directly at info@industryshoppers.com and we will be more than happy to work with you! We work with other companies nationwide so if we cant help you we know someone that can!

What is Guest Shopping? Well it is our own unique and more professional name for what you might have heard before... mystery shopping. Mystery shopping, Secret Shopping, or Guest Shopping as we like to call it, is a tool used by market research companies to measure quality of retail service or gather specific information about products and services. Mystery shoppers posing as normal customers perform specific tasks—such as purchasing a product, asking questions, registering complaints or behaving in a certain way – and then provide detailed reports or feedback about their experiences.

Mystery shopping began in the 1940s as a way to measure employee integrity. Tools used for mystery shopping assessments range from simple questionnaires to complete audio and video recordings. Many mystery shopping companies are completely administered through the Internet, allowing potential mystery shoppers to use the Internet to register for participation, find mystery shopping jobs and receive payment.

The most common venues where mystery shopping is used are retail stores, movie theatres, restaurants, fast food chains, banks, gas stations, car dealerships, apartments and health clubs, as well as health care facilities. In the UK, mystery shopping is increasingly used to provide feedback on customer services provided by local authorities and other non-profit organizations, such as housing associations and churches.

While gathering information, shoppers usually blend in to the store being evaluated as regular shoppers. They may sometimes be required to take photographs or measurements, return purchases, or count the number of products, seats, people during the visit. A timer or a stopwatch may be required. In some states, mystery shoppers must also be licensed as private investigators in order to perform some of the tasks.

From there, the shopper will then submit the data collected to the Mystery shopping company in question. The data is then reviewed and analyzed before quantitative and qualitative statistical [analysis] reports on the data are then returned to the client company that enables measurement against the previously defined criteria.