I'm semi new to all of this. I got my feet wet in the mystery shopping world 5 years ago but then never did anymore shops until this past year and I have been doing many now. I'm actually a huge fan of the announced audit shops but I find them to be few and far between. I know we can't speak of the clients that a MSC has but I think it's fine to talk about the type of shops that an MSC has, yes? If I am wrong I apologize. I've found GFK and I LOVE GFK!!! The schedulers & editors are easy to reach and they pay so fast. But they don't have many companies they do announced audits for. Marketforce has some but I'm just not a fan of marketforce....I feel like marketforce tries to pay peanuts for reports that should be much more expensive, even when they "change fee" it's still not good compensation in my opinion. But anyway none of that is neither here nor there. I've joined probably over fifty different mystery shopping companies and these are the only two companies I've been able to find with announced store audits, are there other companies anyone knows of that do these?