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[corita]

I don't mind music too much if it is softly played!!  However, there is a small grocery store here where they play oldies!! Music that is easy listening and the words make sense!!  I mean real oldies...the Platters, Everly Brothers, Elvis, Johnny Mathis, It is so pleasant to shop in that store.  I love to go there and often find myself singing along!!

[Plaid Pants2]

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@Shorty2U wrote:

I love music while shopping, and I am known to sing along and bop my head to the music while holding the cart.

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Me too!

In fact, I have been known to actually dance in the grocery store.

I figure it gives the people in the security booth something to laugh at.

If I had teenagers, I would so embarrass them! *lol*

[SeaMaiden]

I was in a grocery store yesterday and they had the music SO LOUD. Too loud! I would rather they keep it off.

[Julie928]

Funny I came across this thread tonight.  I ran some errands this morning ~ HomeGoods (way too loud), JoAnn Fabrics (none at all), Pier 1 (so loud I practically had to shout at the cashier to get her attention) and the grocery store (none at all).  Guess where I spent some cash?  JoAnn Fabrics & the grocery store!  I saw something I want at Pier 1 but will order online ~ cute salad plates but I want 8 of them and don't want to inspect them with music blaring above my head.  I remember going into PetSmart and couldn't believe how loud the music was.  I told the manager, he agreed (supposedly) and they turned it down.  The next time I was in there the volume was right back up.  I feel so bad for the animals in there.  I can leave, they can't. 

[chihuahuamom]

I don't mind any kind of music if it is low and subtle. If I owned a store, I would have soft calming music. Think that would relax people and maybe encourage them to stay longer!

I was in a Taco Bell once and they were playing classical music! I was shocked...........and delighted.  

[qualitygal]

Now this is a good subject! If I can sing through the store (not out loud) I'm a happy shopper. Now and then, they play some ?music that is like nails down a chalk board. It's the worst, I want to run out of the store.

I definitely hate the music they play on the phone, while they put you on HOLD. It's the worst, they don't change it, it doesn't play right, it's years old, same music on a tape that repeats over and over.  That's the worst and most ear abusive and it makes the mind go crazy.

[Ms X]

I'm not sure I notice the music in stores unless it's too loud, which makes it hard to concentrate on shopping.  During my first visit to my hairdresser's new salon, the music was so loud that I wondered whether I could continue to see her.  I have no idea what they were playing, but the volume was so high that anything would have been oppressive for an hour or more.  Since then, the music has been turned off.  Thank God!  It's not a big salon, and their blasting songs out of the walls makes the place seem oppressive and claustrophobic.

I see that this thread's from Christmastime.  I like Christmas music in stores as long as it's on a low volume.  I was in Walgreen's a couple of years ago and actually left because the music was so loud that it was impossible to shop.  I think the management must have gone home and the staff put on their favorite station and blasted it for their own benefit. 

[violann]

A few thoughts- most millenials, and younger, have poorer hearing than folks older than they are, because of injudicious use of amplification, so if you are around retirement age, everything you hear WILL be unnecessarily loud for you.

Second, the use of music as a selling tool became popular when recorded music was a novelty, so it added to the ambience to purchasing. Since the prevailing attitude toward buying/selling appears to be moving toward "take it or leave it", don't expect too much enthusiasm for complaints about the tastes of the music choosers, OR the volume level. Won't happen.

[VaBelle35]

LOL @ Posts from the Vault

The gym I used to belong to said the #1 complaint they had was about music.

My community has a pool and the #1 complaint is about music.

Personally, it doesn't bother me as long as it's not blasting.  When Talbots was going through their unfortunate change a few years back when they got rid of the red doors and started blasting music, I knew it was the beginning of the end for them.   You couldn't even hear the sales people when they were standing right in front of your face.

Nordstrom has removed their pianos and now blasts music.  You also can't hear when you're trying to talk to a sales rep.  

There's a particular volume that works where it's there if you are listening for it but not there if you are able to tune it out.

Wegmans has an interesting music mix and I usually come out of there with at least 1 song to download when I get home.  I often hear people singing along.  The same things happens at our coffee bars at work.  People will be singing along to a song while they are making their coffee.

Music can be good at the right volume.

[colliegirls]

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@Irshgrl31201 wrote:

Most of the time I do not notice it unless it is too loud. I like all types of music too so different types fo music doesn't bother me except for techno. I cannot stand that. 

One store that I remember in particular was Abercrombie and Fitch. My daughter used to shop in there occasionally when she was in high school. We went in there one time and the music was so loud and the store was so dark and smelled like they had fumigated it with cologne that I had to leave. I am not exaggerating when I say I felt like I was in a club. The music was so loud you could feel it and it was techno too. Ugh. 

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I totally agree!!!  The same with Hollister!!  I couldn't even think in those stores with that loud music!  One time a salesgirl asked if we wanted to try their fragrance,  I said "good grief, no, I will be able to smell it on my clothes all day just from shopping here".