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If you’ve watched Emily the Criminal on Netflix, you may be left with two question: What is a dummy shopper and is it a real scam?
Emily the Criminal stars Aubrey Plaza as Emily Benetto, a woman in Los Angeles struggling to find a well-paying job due to a previous felony conviction to takes a job as a “dummy shopper” to pay off her mountains of student debt loans. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly in 2022, Plaza explained what attracted her to the idea for Emily the Criminal. T”he script is an incredible read. John Patton Ford is such a talented writer,” she said. “I loved it. Couldn’t put it down. I was reading it really for recreational purposes. I read a lot of scripts, and this one was given to me by a friend, and man, I just couldn’t get it out of my head. I loved the character. I felt that it was touching on something that was relevant, that really had something to say but also was entertaining.” She continued, “And I just love the energy of it, the momentum of it. You start the film and you don’t stop. There’s no pandering to the audience. There’s no random scene of exposition. There’s just nothing unnecessary. It just feels lean and fun, and I became obsessed with it immediately after I read it.”
But back to dummy shoppers. So…what is a dummy shopper and is it a real scam? Read on for…
