Super Markets piping mind numbing music

gluppers

Seriously, shopping in Dunnes, Tesco, etc has become nauseating . I put it down to the bland, nondescript ****e they pipe through their stores. Why is this?

On the continent they don't do this. Why do Irish supermarkets apply this policy?

SoapMcTavish

You should try working there and enduring it ...... and then along comes christmas ... and the christmas songs over and over and over and .....

gluppers

Remember hearing Christmas music in some store post Jan 8th - puke!

danniemcq

I'd rather working in the crappy music of Dunnes than the no music of Pennys.

B.A._Baracus

Yeah, working in a retail outlet and Christmas can be annoying :pac:

But op, the reason why all these stores play music is to add to the enviroment. As for the bland music? because they want to appeal to everyone or at least try to. Imagine walking in to Dunnes and hearing "sickness" by Disturbed lol. Some people would run out.

SoapMcTavish

I did 10yrs in Dunnes while in school and college ... and if I ever get hold of Enya !!!!!!! Grrrrrr ......

Lapin

SoapMcTavish wrote: »

I did 10yrs in Dunnes while in school and college ... and if I ever get hold of Enya !!!!!!! Grrrrrr ......

If you strangled Enya the day you started in Dunnes, you'd be out of prison in less time than you spent working in the place !

B.A._Baracus

One positive thing I will say about Dunnes is that the music blends into the background. It's not blaring loud. Such as a clothes shop or how HMV used to be.

SoapMcTavish

Was a great place to work .... met many of my best friends there ( 1988 - 1997 in the Parkway Limerick ). Lots of craic, lots of girls, lots of pints after work ... and lots of digs to crash out in ....

Son Of A Vidic

SoapMcTavish wrote: »

I did 10yrs in Dunnes while in school and college

Comes across as you having done time.

c_man

gluppers wrote: »

Why do Irish supermarkets apply this policy?

I find the silence in Aldi/Lidl unsettling tbh.

Cuddlesworth

gluppers wrote: »

Seriously, shopping in Dunnes, Tesco, etc has become nauseating . I put it down to the bland, nondescript ****e they pipe through their stores. Why is this?

On the continent they don't do this. Why do Irish supermarkets apply this policy?

Its generally royalty free music. So they don't have to pay anyone.

Duggy747

The joys of Lidl was that there was no music.

Only the sound of your life slipping away as misery consumed you and drained the love for life you once had, replaced by the grinding sound of your teeth as another mouth-breather berates you for not having that spoon that doubles up as a garden hose special in stock anymore.



But, still, no music

Dravokivich

I tend to take no notice of it.

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

gluppers wrote: »

Remember hearing Christmas music in some store post Jan 8th - puke!

Speaking of which.

It's only six months away from being just seven weeks to Christmas!!!

..and I haven't a child in the house washed.

Course, I don't have any kids so the Guards would most likely be called if I did.

PopePalpatine

I hate the music in supermarkets too. The Dunnes outlet which I go to in Maynooth for my lunch plays one of three types of music: a wailing 25-year-old woman who dumps a lot of "ahhhhhhh"s, "ehhhhhh"s and "owwww"s into her songs, a shitty Ed Sheeran clone or - most disturbingly, and most confusingly - country music.

Mikros

The reason they pipe bland tuneless crap is because otherwise they would have to pay the relevant licence holder for a "public performance" for actual music.

PopePalpatine

Would it kill them to play a radio station rather than this crap? Even Spin 1038 would be more tolerable than the howling woman on Dunnes' sound system.

My name is URL

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Comes across as you having done time.

That would be a cruel and unusual punishment indeed!

Tesco re-record popular songs for playback in their stores, saves them a fortune in royalties. It's not only the hard-working farmers that get screwed by tesco, it happens to the rockstars too!

Personally as a customer, I'd prefer some form of music as opposed to none, but I know I'd probably feel the opposite way if I was working in a supermarket.

PopePalpatine

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Would it kill them to play a radio station rather than this crap? Even Spin 1038 would be more tolerable than the howling woman on Dunnes' sound system.

That would be my preference, but then they'd have to pay fees to IMRO (Irish Music Rights Organisation) and to many businesses these days, that's a non-runner.

My name is URL

'Effect of background music on consumer behaviour' {PDF}

http://nicolas.gueguen.free.fr/Articles/EJSR2007.pdf

Basically soft, slow music makes people take their time and spend more money.

Loud music makes them move through the store quickly without affecting sales.

Classical music leads people to buy more expensive merchandise.

Adamantium

I worked in Tesco in 2007, and the one song that played what seemed like all the time was this; It was the original too. They could afford to buy the original then and then pay a 16 year old trolley boy like a full time, 5 days a week employee. Madness.

I was the Celtic Tiger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SybgWaQy7_c

Still runs in my head at random points throughout the day. Pretty good too.

KyussBishop

During school, I did temporary work in a DIY warehouse coming up to Christmas, and yes - hearing the same repeated Christmas music in a loop, non-stop, for ~8 hours, is a great way to encourage suicidal ideation.

I remember stocking an aisle of 'dancing santa's there, and felt a huge sneeze well-up, which set off half an aisle of dancing satan's around me - taunting me :pac:

Irish Guitarist

It doesn't bother me. What I do hate is the music they play in record shops that are staffed mainly by males in their late teens or early twenties. There was one here where they used to play the likes of 50 Cent rapping about popping caps in niggas asses and beating down hoes at full volume all day. Give me Orinoco Flow over that nonsense any day.

PopePalpatine

I needed to dig this thread up after my lunch break today.

I went into Eurospar to get lunch, and I took my earphones out as I was next in line at the deli.

As soon as I finished ordering, I noticed out-of-tune wailing from the speakers. Some little twat, whose parent obviously sits on the board of a record company, was covering "Some Nights" by that band who use a misnomer as their name, FUN. It managed to sound even worse than the original.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Having shopped in Dunnes once a week for over 40 years, I must admit I have never noticed any music. I'll try to listen out for it on Friday.

The noise in clothes shops is appalling though. You can't hear yourself think with the loud music.

Fr_Dougal

Clare Beautiful Washer wrote: »

Having shopped in Dunnes once a week for over 40 years, I must admit I have never noticed any music. I'll try to listen out for it on Friday.

The noise in clothes shops is appalling though. You can't hear yourself think with the loud music.

We'll wait here, don't forget now.

Also, will you pick me up a CurlyWurley?

darkpagandeath

"Keep Gaming"

whisky_galore

Clare Beautiful Washer wrote: »

The noise in clothes shops is appalling though. You can't hear yourself think with the loud music.

Having to fight my way through 100's of square km of womens' gear before I eventually find the phone-box sized area that has gents' clothes. :mad:

Yellowblackbird

What the fk are they using pipes for. Electrical wires is what
you want.

Corvo

I wear headphones whilst shopping

*taps nose*

jimgoose

I blame modern Internet music streaming services such as Spotify. These recently provided a viable alternative to shops, restaurants etc. paying PPI license fees, so you get playlists in those places chosen by all kinds of gobadaws.