Followed by employees while secret shopping

Maybe I’m doing these secret shopping missions incorrectly but I just had to leave Kroger in the middle of a Mobee mission because no joke, 5 employees were following me around.

I was doing the mission where you take photos of the candy displays by the register but I just stopped halfway through because every time I went to a section to discreetly take a photo, at least 2 employees appeared there staring at me. I was careful not to get employees in photos or anything and I even bought a pack of gum, but I guess it still seemed suspicious that I was just randomly taking photos of the M&Ms which I can certainly understand lol, once multiple employees started whispering and looking at me I just left. I guess my question is, how do you guys do secret shopping missions without freaking out the employees?

I’ve read horror stories of people getting cops called on them and getting banned from stores, and that’s not worth $5 to me which is why I just abandoned the mission tonight. I did complete one at Kroger and one at Lowe’s first though, I think I’m just not going to do the ones close to the registers and only do ones located in the store aisles since those are easier.

I’m a fairly new secret shopper so if anyone has tips, I’d love to hear them! :)

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