Good Service Leads to Better Profit

31 Mar 2025

Mathematics shows that good service leads to higher profits—satisfied customers return and make repeat purchases, recommend the business to their acquaintances, and are much more likely to buy additional services or products when offered. Companies that value their customers succeed.

AI in Action: How Artificial Intelligence Optimizes Mystery Shopping

17 Mar 2025

In today’s dynamic market, understanding customer experience quality is crucial for companies aiming to stay competitive. Traditionally, mystery shopping has been a powerful tool for gathering such insights, yet it comes with limitations such as subjectivity, scalability issues, and slow feedback. Enter Artificial Intelligence (AI), which is transforming mystery shopping—not by replacing human shoppers, but by working alongside them to provide deeper and more actionable insights.

Challenges of Traditional Mystery Shopping

  • Smiling report Client X 2020

Smiling Report 2020: North America smiles and greets the most while there is a worldwide tendency of increasing the add-on sales

21 May 2020

MSPA Europe/Africa has released the 2020 Smiling Report for 16th year in a row. The 2020 report provides a summary of almost five million answers to questions focusing on Smile, Greeting and Add-on Sales metrics from 68 countries during 2019. Client X took part in the survey for 11-th year presenting the data collected by mystery shoppers in Bulgaria.

New Year’s Resolution 2019

11 May 2020

Another year has come to its end and for Client X once again it has been filled with a variety of projects and work engagements. At the end of it we are all making our resolutions – what we have achieved, how much we have learned and what more there is to learn.

What is it like to work with Client X?

11 May 2020

Over the last few years „mystery shopping“ has become one of the most popular ways of earning money. Nowadays there are number of agencies, each one of them offering you to join their team. If you are just discovering the world of mystery shopping and exploring all the possibilities, it is difficult to find out which agency is worth working with and whether to choose Client X. At the end of last year, we conducted a survey amongst our mystery shoppers to measure their level of satisfaction and to mark the main challenges concerning our work together. We present you a few short aspects of the survey.
  • Acting natural – this is the key to not being revealed as a mystery shopper. (The photo, of course, does not show the author of the text.)

How the mystery shopper must remain “mysterious”

12 Nov 2015

Here is the text by Ms N. T. from Plovdiv region, working as an administrative assistant. She has been an unrecognizable* mystery shopper since 2013.

The mystery shopper is just like the next guy in the store, but more perceptive, yet not suspicious.

Mystery shoppers are all ears for a simple “Thank you”, “Excuse me” or “How can I help you?”. They “have eyes” for details such as an employee’s polite gesture, a welcoming look or a smile.

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