"If you believe you do not have the budget to do both you are missing an opportunity to improve on your bottom line, CX data tells you what your customers’ perceptions are of the services you are marketing and providing, whereas Mystery Shopping data is a reality check of what is actually being delivered toward your brand promises.
For the remainder of this blog I will be going into more detail on why you should conduct a mystery shopping program in tandem with your CX program."
https://www.business2community.com/customer-experience/cx-mystery-shopping-great-questions-to-consider-02174996/
"Two weeks ago, I posted “Is Customer Experience a Missed Opportunity?” and shared CCW’s 2018 Market Survey. The report discussed the fact that many customer experience (CX) programs are failing to drive change. There were multiple takeaways; only 9% of programs said their primary use of journey maps was “to ‘orchestrate’ predictive and/or proactive engagement,” whereas 31% primarily used them “to fix ‘pain points’ in the experience.” This was one of many reasons CX hasn’t been having a strong impact in many organizations."
http://customerthink.com/why-your-cx-program-isnt-winning/