Walgreens, Rite Aid, CVS....questions

Hey all!! Do these big chain drugstores get shopped? How does a typical shop go for them? I must be missing a big MS company because I haven't seen these guys listed or talked about yet!

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Have only seen shops for Walgreens which were tobacco test purchases with an underaged teenage minor needed...never seen any shops for both CVS and Rite Aid.

In my market Walgreens used to be shopped, we have no Rite Aids and I have never seen a CVS shop except when done by a product supplier.

I did Walgreens long ago and far away, but no longer work for that MSC (my choice), so not sure if they are shopped.

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EDITED: Listing the MSC and the Client is a violation of your ICA.

Walgreen used to have "regular" type mystery shops. I loved them..they were great for collecting stocking stuffers all year round. AND there are so many you could do a zillion. They always had notes on their boards about how they were doing too. I want to say it was about two years at the end of the year they stopped the "regular" type (not audits or age compliance). For some of those Walgreens I could really see a decline in offers of assistance once they were no longer shopped.

Liz

rite aid has compliance shops... thats about all i have heard of...

i did merchandising for cvs two weeks ago... but nothings up on the board now...

shopping north west PA and south west ny

CVS is shopped. Great pay including the vitamins.

I'm sorry, I meant GNC.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/14/2012 11:32AM by sun&fun.

CVS is shopped. Great pay including the vitamins.

Any hints for the company name which shops them?

No.

Shopping Bama and parts of Georgia.
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There are compliance shops at Rite Aid and Walgreens. I have also done merchandising and/or audits at all three of these stores.

I'm also interested in regular/vitamin shops for CVS if anyone has hints, or can PM me. Thanks!

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/07/2012 01:20AM by Oaklandshopper.

Oaklandshopper Wrote:
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> There are compliance shops at Rite Aid and
> Walgreens. I have also done merchandising and/or
> audits at all three of these stores.
>
> I'm also interested in regular/vitamin shops for
> CVS if anyone has hints, or can PM me. Thanks!

Hi I would be interested too for CVS if anyone could PM me thanks and God Bless

I did a HP ink shop at Walgreens tonight, and the same at Rite-Aid in the past.

When I first started six years ago there were 2 different companies doing Walgreens. One was a particular product line that you had to check some of the products on the shelf making sure the ven numbers were intact. The other, the one I considered a regular ms assignment was for a well none company that I still work for. They have not have the Walgreen shops for at least 5 years now.

ggoin Wrote:
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> I did a ink shop at Walgreens tonight, and the
> same at Rite-Aid in the past.

Oh yea, I did a series of ink shops at Walgreen's last year, but I understood it to be an audit for the ink manufacturer, not a shop for W. One of the stores had recently remodeled, and no longer carries ink of any kind. The editor kicked it back at me, saying there was ink last month, so clearly I didn't visit the location. Once I noted the remodel, and offered to send photos, it passed through the system. I haven't seen those shops since, so maybe I was blocked after that. Hm....

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Shopping Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco, and surrounding cities.

I have done price audits for rite aid. You know the type - get a shopping list of of about 25 items and they only carry 10. Get the price. Report.

But that's all I've seen.

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