- Count On Us - Mystery shopper services to restaurants, bars, hotels, banks, retail and service industries. Licensed investigators. Online application.
- Hindsight - Business evaluations by mystery shoppers, customer service information collectors, local and US national. Comparison graphs for managers.
- Berring HIne Consulting - Telephone-based mystery shopper programmes as part of a wider evaluation of public sector services.
- Shadow Shopper - Video mystery shopping company. Shoppers wear microvideo equipment to record interactions. Services, press releases and news, dealers, and contact information.
- At Random Communications - Telephone based shopper evaluations of service quality and efficiency. Customer follow-up and competitive analysis services also available.
- Tenox Appraisal Systems - Customer satisfaction measurement specialists.
- Service Check - Customer service audits performed throughout North America.
- Schryver Enterprises. LLC - Develops and customizes training courses in customer satisfaction, and provides mystery shopping services.
- ICC - Decision Services - Mystery shopping and merchandising solutions. Services retail and restaurant industry. Programs customized to meet the objectives and budget of customers.
- Second To None, Inc. - Full service mystery shopping solutions. Apply online.
- Confero, Inc. - Nationwide mystery shopping and customer satisfaction measurement services for automotive, banking, restaurant and real estate. Online application.
- Anonymous Insights, Inc. - Marketing research firm that specializes in customer satisfaction programs. Online application.
- ServiceTRAC, Inc. - National and international mystery shopping and full service market research firm providing market analysis, measurements and solution services.
- Check Mark, Inc. - Mystery shopper services to banking, restaurant, retail and entertainment sectors. Online application.
- Shop'n Chek International - Mystery shopping and market research services for customer satisfaction measurement.
- Shoppers' View - Provides mystery shopping on site and by telephone to the retail industry. Online application.
- IntelliShop - Nationwide mystery shopping and secret shopping solutions to more than 25 industries. Services include on site, video, telephone, and web. Online reporting system.
- Imyst, Inc. - Provides customized mystery shopping services for automotive dealerships, retail locations, restaurants, hotels and apartments, telephone programs, and customer service evaluation.
- Jancyn Evaluation Shops - Secret shopping services used by the retail, restaurant and rental housing industry.
- SNEAK PEAKms - Offers a variety of customized mystery shopper and caller services.
- ITS (Incognito) - Offers assessment of customer service, call handling and sales skills through the implementation of mystery customer programs. Specialising in the hospitality industry.
- J.M. Ridgeway Co. - A market research and mystery shopping company providing national coverage.
- Secret ShopNET - Mystery shopping services. Apply online.
- Clandestine Marketing - Mystery shopping solutions, marketing research and secret mystery shoppers. Also retail observation and restaurant evaluation.
- Performance In People Ltd - UK-based telephone and video mystery shopping services.
- Reality Check Mystery Shopper - Shopper evaluations. Apply online.
- Presence Quality Mystery Shopping - Specialists of network assessments.
- Richey International - Quality management programs to enhance performance, measure product quality, and maintain brand stature.
- Creative Image Associates - A consulting and training company specializing in assisting financial institutions to achieve a successful sales and service culture. Training, evaluation, and incentive programs designed to maximize employee performance.
- Focus Plus Service Auditors - An independent customer service monitoring company which provides evaluation of customer service.
- Sutter Marketing - Mystery shopping and compliance audits powered by Palm technology with digital photo documentation. Website accessible data. Find details about the business, services offered, and contact information.
- Mystery Shopping Resources - Listings of companies needing shoppers, a shoppers' bulletin board, a live chat area, and a page of links to free or inexpensive items.
- Ath Power - Mystery shopper services catering to retail and financial services. Sales staff and management training and market research. Online application.
- Michelson & Associates, Inc. - Description of the company and services offered. Apply online to be a shopper.
- Shoppers Critique International - Provides independent customer service evaluations by using guest mystery shoppers to evaluate employee performance. Details about services and industries served, mystery shopping details, FAQs and contact information.
- Retail Rapport Ltd. - Mystery shopping agency. List of services, details about applying, and contact information.
- Mystery Shoppers - Evaluates customer service and quality control. News for potential clients and shoppers, contact information, and details about the business.
- Mystery Shoppers Ltd. - Mystery shopping and customer service training and consultancy services. UK.
- Service Excellence Group - Provides customer service development through mystery shops, customer service/management/sales training, personalized consultation, and a quarterly training publication. Find contact information, list of services, and details for potential shoppers and clients.
- Perfectly Frank inc. - A boutique mystery shopping company. Areas of specialization, pricing, and contacts.
- Certified Reports, Inc. - Mystery shopping and market research surveys for financial, restaurant, retail and service industries. Also offer proof-of-performance theatre audits. Online application.
- Shoppers Confidential Inc. - Services include customer satisfaction measurement, competitor intelligence, compliance and integrity audits, and customer surveys. Covers Canada and the U.S.A.
- Service Evaluation - Provides a solution for keeping on top of the front line.
- Mars Research - Offers a wide variety of quantitative research studies, including mystery shopping and customer surveys.
- Mystery Review - Mystery Review offers high quality mystery shopping surveys to check how customers do see shops, hospitals and theaters.
- Associate Consumer Evaluations Mystery Shopping - Offering customer service evaluations, exit interviews, and employee training with web access. Resource for shoppers and online application.
- Acorn Management Associates - Mystery shopping provider. Specializes in automotive after sales care. Also offers design, development and manufacture of specialist tools.
- Speedmark Information Services - Marketing services company that specializes in providing customized data collection for Consumer Products Manufacturers and multi-unit retailers. Services offered, and mystery shopper application.
- The Insight Group International - Provides food and beverage service evaluations and full property evaluations for hotels.
- Hilli Dunlap Enterprises - Services offered, contact details, and application to be a shopper.
- Kinesis - Web-based reporting that targets all levels of an enterprise. Mystery shopping, focus groups, web-site pop up surveys, telephone interviews and customer feedback.
- Imaginus Training & Development Inc. - Mystery shopping, web shopping, training, motivational seminars, and focus groups.
- Premier Service - A Montreal-based firm in business for over 11 years, provides mystery shopping and consulting services across Canada, the US and Puerto Rico.
- Amusement Advantage, LLC - Amusement park mystery shopping. Online application.
- National Shopping Service - Mystery shopping in America and Europe.
- Mystery Shopping Providers Association - Trade association of mystery shopping providers and resource for shopper applicants.
- Quality Assessments Mystery Shoppers, LLC - Details how to become a customer and receive feedback on quality service, how to stimulate word-of-mouth, and suggestive selling.
- Quality Scheduling Group LLC - Providers of scheduling, recruiting, and editing services for the mystery shopping industry. Personalized consulting service for each client. Mystery shoppers may register in our database. Job board available.
- Service Alliance, Inc. - Provides mystery shopping services to a variety of industries throughout the United States.
- BestMark, Inc. - Offers mystery and secret shopper services, including online surveys and reporting.
- Advanced Phone Ups - Telephone training and mystery shopping of all types of vehicle dealerships.
- Jireh Scheduling and Research - Provide research to business organizations by consumer evaluations.
- SG Marketing Group - Company description, services offered, and online shopper application.
- React Surveys - Providing mystery shopping services to measure and improve service delivery from a customer perspective.
- Sensor Quality Management Inc. - Mystery shopping services with either local residents or shoppers who have experience in a particular industry. Information for clients; application form for prospective shoppers.
- Consumer Impressions, Inc. - Providing mystery shopping services in the United States.
- Support Financial Resources, Inc. - Customer-driven mystery shopping and consultative services specializing in the financial services industry.
- eMysteryShopper - Independent review of website usability and efficiency from a customer's point of view. Online application.
- Satisfaction Services, Inc - Providing customized quality and service evaluation programs to restaurant, hospitality, retail, and service companies, including online surveys and reporting.
- Amber Arch - Specialist business evaluations by mystery shoppers, service measurements and analysis.
- Ardent Services, Inc. - Mystery shopper services catering to retail, restaurant, hotel, airline and car rental industries. Online application.
- Shadow Shopper - Shoppers pay annual fee to be part of an employee database accessed by would-be mystery shopper employers.
- A Customer's Point of View, Inc. - Mystery shopping services for retail, restaurants, transit providers, housing, living and care facilities, entertainment facilities and health care providers. Online application.
- Customer Service Perceptions - Website, telephone and on-site mystery shopping services. Online application. Employee surveys and competitor price check services also available.
- Service Intelligence, Inc. - Provides actionable, real-time Internet-based mystery shopping and performance assessment across all of North America.
- Westcoast Mystery Shopping - Specializes in serving smaller retail chains throughout North America.
- The Secret Shopper Company - Offers a full range of secret shopping services, with reports tailored to motivate rather than criticize. Online training required for all shoppers.
- Pacific Research Group - Services include mystery shops, site inspections, and phone surveys.
- Infotel - Serving retailers, restaurant/quick-serve, manufacturing and service industries with custom-designed mystery shopping programs.
- Douglas Stafford International - Video, telephone, and physical mystery shopping. Automotive industry specialists. Streaming video and audio results online.
- National Shopping Service Network, LLC - Offers a variety of mystery shopping services.
- Guest Check - Offers mystery shopping investigative services exclusively to hotels, restaurants, and resorts.
- Consumer Research Group (CRG) - Mystery shopper consultant services to the retail industry.
- Customer Point of View - A mystery shopping service catering exclusively to the restaurant and hotel foodservice industries since 1985.
- RetailTrack - Retail, service, hospitality and call center mystery shopping.
- Feedback Plus, Inc. - Customized mystery shopping programs.
- QualityWorks Associates - A market research organization that conducts surveys and mystery shopping.
- The Kirandt Group, LLC - Offers mystery shopping and competitive intelligence services exclusively the casino gaming industry.
- Inland Retail Services - Specialists in mystery shopping and merchandising services. Includes services and contacts.
- Mysteryshopper.com.au Pty Limited - Focuses on Australian shops but also New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States of America.
- Mystery Shop Inc. - Print, telephone, and video mystery shop services.
- Quality Eye Mystery Shopping - A UK-based company providing telephone audits, mystery shopping, website evaluations, and competitor comparisons for the retail and public sector.
- Retail Maxim - UK-based mystery shopping services including competitor visits and internet and telephone shopping.
- Mysteryshopomatic.com - Online tools for mystery shopping providers: web-accessible form and report editors, ftp transfer, automatic scoring of submitted forms, and report downloading in ZIP and CSV format. Monthly fee for access to these tools.
- Shopper Anonymous - Australian mystery shopping organization.
- ICU Associates Inc. - Provides services in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico to fast food chains, restaurants, airports, and convenient stores. Also provides private investigations in the US. Shopper application available.
- Checkout (UK) Ltd - A customized mystery shopper program using specialized secret shoppers with a video recorded analysis.
- Customer 1st - Full service mystery shopping company providing on-line reporting for customer service evaluation.
- AQ Services International - Mystery shopping, quality research, and consultancy services. Company profile, locations and contacts.
- Restaurant Evaluators, Inc. - Customer feedback and evaluation services. Company profile, news and contacts.
- GAPbuster Worldwide - Providers of mystery shopping services. Also customer experience evaluation and international benchmarking. Company profile, locations, contacts and Online shopper application.
- ComSim, Inc. - Gathers and reports customer perceptions, feedback and suggestions concerning products and services for high-technology companies. Profile, FAQ and contacts.
- Frontline Shoppers Inc. - Offering mystery shopping and merchandising compliance evaluations. Also consumer research and training services.
- Sipe and Associates - Provides customer service evaluations, mystery or secret shopping services.
- Shop'n Chek - Offers mystery shopping and market research services for customer satisfaction measurement in Australia and New Zealand. profile and contacts.
- Data Quest, Ltd. - Monitoring customer service performance and employee honesty in a broad range of industries (Hotels, Restaurants/Bars, Retail).
- C-Chex - Partners with retailers to ensure cashiers comply with age-restricted sales policies while providing an objective view of operations.
- Secret Shopping Services - Specializes in retail, restaurant, malls, jewelers, coffee houses, integrity issues and customer service audits. Company profile and contacts.
- Dynamic Advantage - Provides mystery shopping and customer satisfaction measurement services. News archive, and monthly newsletter.
- Hidden Concepts Inc. - Mystery shopping and secret evaluating in person, online, by telephone or via competitive shopping. Case studies, tips and publications. Company profile and contacts.
- JKS Mystery Shopping Ltd - Offers mystery shopping for retail, leisure and tourism sectors. List of services, profile and contacts.
- Tern Consultancy - Works with retailers to improve and track customer service primarily by developing corporate standards and providing mystery shopping.
- Verification Roberte Inc. - Providing mystery shopping, customer service evaluation, surveys and analysis. Specializing in retail and food industries. Covers Canada and USA.
- All-Star Customer Service, Inc. - Offering traditional, audio, and video mystery shopping, and market research. Also training training programs.
- Sights on Service, Inc. - A mystery shopping company with shopping opportunities available across the lower 48 states and Hawaii in the US.
- Business Evaluation Services - Business and retail on-site, telephone and customer feedback secret shopper services.
- BARE International - Mystery guest retail, hotel and restaurant reports since 1987. Video training and guest intercept programs also available. Online application.
- Secret Sleuths - Services offered, staff, contact details, and shopper application.
- AboutFace - Provider of mystery shopper programs and secret shopping services.
- Service Performance Group - Mystery shopper program designed to objectively measure employee customer service skills, sales skills, product knowledge and other related criteria.
- Mystery Shopping Matters - Created to share and exchange best practices amongst end-users of a mystery shopping program.
- DSG Associates, Inc. - Mystery shopping services to the retail food service industry. Online application.
- Albatross - Focus on customer service and sales performance in shops and offices across China and Asia. Company profile, news, and contacts.
- Sinclair Service Assessments - Company provides mystery shopping services throughout the U.S. and abroad. Sign-up area for shoppers.
- SpySee - Providing mystery shopping and reviews of business performance.
- Mystique Shopper LLC - Mystery shopping services to varied industries. Web-based reporting.
- Shadow Shopper - Offers mystery shopping, website evaluation and reports.
- A Step Above Service Evaluations, Inc. - Florida-based service evaluations to varied industries.
- PAN Research - Services include mystery shopping, satisfaction surveys, and retail audit. Also website usability testing.
- Shoppers, Inc. - Mystery shopper services to bank, restaurant and retail industries. Employee incentive plans and surveys. Online application and shopper resource.
- Shop Incognito - Offers mystery shopping training and support services. Also articles, podcasts and learning materials.
- Game Film Consultants - Video mystery shopping.
- Byers Choice - Offers services in Mid-Atlantic and Northeasten United States for fast food and convenience store industry. Includes application and reasons to consider using services.
- Northwest Loss Prevention Consultants - Restaurant, apartment and retail mystery shops. On line shopper application.
- Ethos Consultancy - Providers of mystery shopping, process improvement, e-solutions and benchmarking studies in the Middle East.
- ServiceSense - Service evaluation programs and customer care consulting for restaurants, retail stores, service businesses and call centers.
- The Hotel Shopping Network - Provider of hotel mystery shopping and sales training services to the hospitality industry.
- Evaluation Systems for Personnel - Provides mystery shopping and sales training services. [Houston]
- Impact Mystery Shopping Ltd - Providers of mystery shopping, customer satisfaction and competitor benchmarking services. Online agent registration form.
- The Performance Edge, Inc - Mystery Shopping services. Customer Service Feedback. Online application.
- Retail Active - Provides business intelligence by way of mystery shopping and customer satisfaction research and insight, for the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors.
Media publications
- The Christian Science Monitor - Article about Shoppers who spy on those who serve, amateur detectives rate firms on everything from cleanliness to customer service. (Published 2002-05-28 00:00:00)