Does your team ever make you do secret shopping by cold calling suppliers and stores to research product prices of competitors?

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Yes literally all the time

Not specifically that but we were doing a service desk technology recommendation project and one of the associates was responsible for testing out chat bot features of best in class and competitor solutions. So yeah I'd say what you've described is normal

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Yes. Mystery shopping is pretty common on any commercial/market-facing project

Yeah this is pretty normal

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