Why choose Retail Active – Automotive Mystery shopping

Retail Active is the market leader of British mystery shopping companies and we also have strong roots in brand auditing, with numerous clients in several sectors.  Like our secret shopping reports, our audit reports are a snapshot of how businesses are performing, but they go one step further in to checking how compliant they are to company standards and what facilities are in place.

With years of experience as the leading brand auditing and mystery shopping company, Retail Active knows many of the problems that arise from running franchise operations.  Our audits highlight issues such as non compliant signage, inferior customer environments and incorrectly displayed POS; all of which could affect customer experience and sales.  Through a regular mystery shopping and auditing procedure, we can help save clients money.  We do this by ensuring that service and premises are maintained to a higher consistent standard throughout the franchise.

We have an International team of auditors who are detail conscientious, articulate and work to an exacting standard.  Retail Active provides a brand auditing and mystery shopping service throughout Europe, completing thousands of assignments each month to test service, quality and brand compliance.

We liaise with our clients to understand the emphasis of their audits, before preparing a custom audit programme to support their needs.  At Retail Active your Brand Audit will be completed perfectly, precisely and in a timely manner.

If you wish to enquire about the services Retail Active can provide, please email info@retailactive.com

If you are interested in becoming a brand assessor, please click through for more details on positions available.

If you are looking for mystery shopping jobs, or are looking to become a secret shopper, please sign up through www.retailactive.com.

The Retail Active Difference

In order to be the best you need to learn from your mistakes.  Retail Active is the leading British Mystery shopping company and there is a reason for that.  We review and improve our techniques constantly, staying a step ahead of the competition and providing a high-quality mystery shopping and customer research service for all of our valued clients.  It’s important to be quick to recognise mistakes and just as important to fix them quickly.

Lack of Communication

From the client to us, from the secret shopper to the proof-reader, communication is key.  Too often, companies will come to us with complaints about breakdowns of communication and one of their key requests is an Account Manager that will be with them throughout their engagement with us.  We have built our Account Management around this ideal to ensure that all of our clients’ needs are listened to and met.

Managing Change

Every client is important to us and we go to exacting lengths to ensure complete client satisfaction.  Our own research tells us that clients want meaningful and lasting relationships with their service providers, so we don’t change any of our key relationship contacts without carefully checking first.  As we grow and gain new clients we continue to recruit new secret shoppers for new, exciting mystery shopping jobs.  All of our mystery shoppers are graded after each and every assignment. 

Lack of Groundwork

You wouldn’t promise to build a skyscraper without laying the correct foundations. All of our client projects run on a tried and tested system that is proven to provide reliable secret shopping and brand auditing results so when we make a promise, you can trust that we can deliver it.

Inconsistency of service

Secret shopping is a very different to brand auditing, or any of our other products and services.  We have a graded and profiled International panel where it is possible for someone different to be assessing your business at every interaction.  Our reporting style means that our processes are consistent, but our mystery shopper’s opinion is relevant, fresh, considered and timely.

If you would like to learn more on how we can help you, contact us on 01235 438413.

Mystery Shopping Alert

Over the past few weeks we have been made aware of honest mystery shopper applicants being targeted by tricksters.  Retail Active does not recruit mystery shoppers through an email, club, agency or list and advises those wanting to work for a Mystery Shopping Company never to part with cash in advance.  If you do then there is a very high probability that you will be defrauded.

Unsuspecting people, wanting to earn extra money, risk being scammed by bogus market research companies, who are trying to cash in on this increasingly popular activity.

Genuine mystery shopping companies like Retail Active advertise their contact number and can be called directly.  Always apply directly to mystery shopper agencies, If in doubt phone.

 Internet tricksters have angered genuine mystery shopping companies, like Retail Active, which is one of Europe's leading Brand Audit and Mystery Shopping agencies. The company gets calls from people all over the world worried that they have been duped - or are about to be.

 Retail Active's managing director, Julian Chamberlain says:

 "We are very angry that fraudsters are trying to exploit mystery shoppers who genuinely want to earn some much-needed extra income, as well as help improve customer service.

"We have received reports of people being asked for personal details when applying for mystery shopping jobs, which are then sold off to use on marketing lists - or for other uses, such as fraudulently accessing people's bank accounts.

"No reputable Mystery Shopping Company would ever ask for money in advance- so that is one  good way to establish if a company is genuine or not.

 All reputable mystery shopping companies provide training, so if there is none, the likelihood is that you are being conned.

The easiest way to be sure you’re application is safe is to register with a secret shopping company like Retail Active, at www.retailactive.com.

Network Rail Appoints Retail Active as its Mystery Shopping Partner

Retail Active, one of Europe’s leading mystery shopping companies has been appointed to operate Network Rail’s 'mystery shopper ' customer service evaluation programme.

The research will take place at 17 of Network Rails prestigious stations throughout the UK with the purpose of identifying strategic opportunity to enhance the sales and service at over 550 businesses and 150 leading high street brands.

Retail Active will operate ‘Service Excellence’, which aims to evaluate and improve existing customer service standards.

Julian Chamberlain Managing Director of Retail Active stated that the Oxfordshire based secret shopping company competed against a shortlist of three other leading research companies. ‘We are delighted to have been awarded this business and look forward to making a meaningful and lasting difference to Network Rails business objectives.

Retail Active is growing fast and I am confident that our ability to deliver this project with flawless execution meant that we are the right choice all along. Our performance last year has outperformed all expectations and 2012 is set to be our most exciting yet.

Working with Network Rail enables us to showcase our true capabilities as the leading Mystery Shopping and Brand Audit Company. We will be assessing customer service to keep customers coming back. Our regular evaluations and feedback will help Network Rail to develop and maintain good customer service practices with their business partners for years to come."

Retail Active is part of the Sequential Solutions Group and the leading Mystery Shopping Company in the UK. Each year tens of thousands of secret shoppers visit businesses throughout Europe to test their service and customer experience.

Calling All Shoppers

Retail Active the leading Mystery Shopping and Brand Audit Company is looking for thousands of new recruits to join them.

If you would like to eat, shop and experience some of Europe’s best known brands and attractions then why not join us. Becoming a Mystery Shopper is great fun and above all you get the opportunity to make a real and lasting difference to the standard of service being provided. There are thousands of mystery shopping jobs available all over Europe and throughout the UK.

Becoming a Secret Shopper is free and you will be paid for each assignment. Many assignments will require you to test food and drink or buy purchases that you are able to keep.

Retail Active announced a 66% increase in business over the previous year and 2012 is set to be the busiest yet. Julian Chamberlain Managing Director of Retail Active commented, “I can’t think of anything more rewarding than experiencing the service of leading high street brands, knowing that the feedback you give will be considered at the highest level. The insight that our secret shoppers provide is invaluable and more and more companies are signing us to help them improve their business proposition.

This next year will see Retail Active assessing the service experience of over 150 of the UK’s leading high street brands. Join us and help make a difference.

Retail Active is part of the Sequential Solutions Group and a leading mystery shopping company operating throughout Europe.