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Secret Shopping puts Flexibility in the Bag
Teresa was an aspiring designer. She fashioned beautiful handbags out of recycled materials such as old vinyl signs, woven baskets, and fabric scraps, embellishing each one of them in unique and eclectic ways. Her favorite design so far had been a tote that at one time served as one of her favorite books. Clothing and accessories, such as shorts and old hats, even discarded prom dresses were coveted by Teresa and used as the materials for her future designs, along with various buttons, patches, costume jewelry and beads.
She was a self confessed handbag maniac, and ever since she was a child she could be found rummaging through the closets of everyone who would let her peek, pulling out and adoring the purses that she would stumble across. Teresa wanted to make her living as a handbag designer, but at the moment, it just wasn't happening. She had taken to doing some secret shopping work as a part time income, and had been busy with her assignments when one hot August afternoon on a whim, she decided to stop into a new local fashion boutique that had recently opened, to talk to the owner. Perhaps she could sell some of her handbag creations there.
The owner was out for the day, but Teresa learned when she would be in again, and three days later after yet another secret shopping assignment, this one at a coffee shop and bagel bar that happened to be right up the road, Teresa stopped in and met Mandy, a stylish woman in her late forties whose first words to Teresa, aside form her initial greeting, were I love that bag. Where did you get it.
Teresa beamed with pride as she told Mandy the reason for her visit, and by the time she walked out, she had agreed to bring several of her handbags up to the boutique the following day to show them to Mandy, who was thrilled to have the opportunity to see them. Secret shopping had been Teresas bread and butter for the last few months, as she had been having a difficult time getting any sales for her handbags in the local shops. She has shopped everything from self storage facilites, to movie theatres. Teresa loved the flexibility of her secret shopping assignments, and as such she opted out of doing an early morning assignment on the day she was to show her designs to Mandy.
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