MKT-QA

Mystery shopping in Qatar

Our home market and the base for everything else. Fieldwork is run from the Doha office with the shortest lead times and the deepest panel of any market we cover.

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Coverage

Cities and zones we cover.

Where our panel actually reaches. Where a location falls outside it we say so at scoping rather than substituting a shopper who does not fit the profile.

01 Doha Central business district, Msheireb, Souq Waqif and the Corniche

02 West Bay Banking, corporate offices and the majority of five-star hotel stock

03 Lusail Marina district, Place Vendôme and the newer residential towers

04 The Pearl-Qatar Porto Arabia and Medina Centrale retail and dining

05 Al Wakrah Souq Al Wakrah, residential and the southern retail corridor

06 Al Khor Northern industrial and community retail

07 Al Rayyan Education City, Mall of Qatar and the western suburbs

How it runs

How engagements run in Qatar.

LanguagesArabic and English as standard, with Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam, Tagalog and Nepali available for interview work.

Typical lead timeTwo to three weeks from a signed brief to first completed visits.

PanelDeepest panel of the six markets, with quota coverage across nationality, gender and age bands in Doha and the northern municipalities.

Run fromThe Doha office, which is also this market. Fieldwork is staffed locally.

Qatar's retail and hospitality capacity expanded substantially in the run-up to 2022 and has not contracted since. That leaves a market where several brands compete for the same catchment within one mall, and where service delivery is the only variable a brand fully controls.

The workforce is highly multilingual and the customer base more so. A programme run only in English measures the experience of part of the customer base and infers the rest. Every scorecard we run in Qatar is available in Arabic and English, and shoppers are assigned by the language the interaction would naturally happen in.

Regulatory and cultural constraints on evidence collection are firmer here than in some neighbouring markets, particularly around photography of individuals and audio recording. What is collectible is settled during scoping with your own legal or compliance function, and the scorecard only asks for evidence a shopper can lawfully obtain.

Sectors

Where the work is in this market.

IND-RTL Retail How long a customer stands in a department before anyone acknowledges them IND-RST Restaurant Whether anyone came back to the table after the food arrived IND-FIN Financial Whether the fee was disclosed before the customer was asked to sign IND-HSP Hospitality How a request that could not be met was handled IND-AUT Automotive Whether the test drive was offered or had to be requested IND-HLT Health & Wellness Whether the patient left knowing what happens next IND-LUX Luxury Whether the client was recognised, or merely served IND-OIL Oil & Gas Whether the attendant's phone was in their hand at the pump

Other markets

The other five.

MKT-QA Qatar HQ Two to three weeks from a signed brief to first completed visits. MKT-SA Saudi Arabia Four to six weeks, longer where a specific shopper profile has to be recruited in a secondary city. MKT-AE UAE Three to four weeks for client programmes. MKT-OM Oman Four to five weeks, longer for Salalah outside the Khareef season. MKT-KW Kuwait Three to four weeks. MKT-BH Bahrain Three to four weeks.

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