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Music in Supervalu.

  • 15-01-2013 11:59AM
    #1
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭


    One of the most annoying things about shopping in my local Supervalu is their habit of constantly interupting the piped music in the store with advertising announcements.They have a fairly good enough playlist but it's impossible to enjoy them as they constantly get cut off by annoying recording's of some wan chirpley telling us about special offers.Could they at least do these announcements in between the songs?I was in there yesterday when Led Zep's Stairway to heaven was interupted about 5 times by bloody promos.


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  • #2
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    May I be the first to suggest an ipod? ;)


  • #3
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    darkdubh wrote: »
    One of the most annoying things about shopping in my local Supervalu is their habit of constantly interupting the piped music in the store with advertising announcements.They have a fairly good enough playlist but it's impossible to enjoy them as they constantly get cut off by annoying recording's of some wan chirpley telling us about special offers.Could they at least do these announcements in between the songs?I was in there yesterday when Led Zep's Stairway to heaven was interupted about 5 times by bloody promos.

    It's not a fcuking concert.


  • #4
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    My local Tesco plays cover versions of current pop songs. It's bizarre, the songs sound almost the same and then you realise someone else with a similar voice is singing them. Is it cheaper to play cover versions? Why not just play muzak or something?


  • #5
    homerjay2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,346 ✭✭✭✭homerjay2005


    i go to supervalu/tesco/lidl/aldi or where ever for the purpose of buying food or whatever, nothing else. i try to get it done as quickly as possible, so that i can get the fook out of there.

    if you actually are listening to the music, your spending far too much time in there.


  • #6
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    No such problems for me.
    In M&S they have delightful music and staff.


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  • #7
    IceFjoem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭IceFjoem


    If you listen very hard, the tune will come to you at last.


  • #8
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,455 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Lando Griffin wrote: »
    No such problems for me.
    In M&S they have delightful music and staff.

    No recession there blah blah blah...


  • #9
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    Lando Griffin wrote: »
    No such problems for me.
    In M&S they have delightful music and staff.

    I always wanted to shop in there. Looking in the window will have to do for now. :(


  • #10
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Lando Griffin wrote: »
    No such problems for me.
    In M&S they have delightful music and staff.

    I'd love a pack of those chocolatey round biscuits they sell.

    Fcuk it, I'm going to get a pack. I'll report back on the music.


  • #11
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,776 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »
    I always wanted to shop in there. Loosing in the window will have to do for now. :(
    That's what loosers do :D


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  • #12
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W25_jgiY51I


    This is what they should play on a loop.


  • #13
    meoklmrk91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,083 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    I shop in aldi, I don't think they play music or even do announcements which is fine by me. I don't really understand why shops feel the need to play music, especially bad covers of pop songs. I never worked in a shops but I would imagine listening to that **** all day would be soul crushing.

    On that note I was in tesco to pick up a few small buts before Xmas, they were playing Xmas music, which is bad enough, but in the middle of it they played this church hymn that was so depressing that I felt like eating a few poinsettias before walking out under a car for good measure to ensure my untimely death.


  • #14
    sfwcork
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭sfwcork


    supermarket in advertising shocker!


  • #15
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    sfwcork wrote: »
    supermarket in advertising shocker!

    Why would you advertise for a supermarket in the actual supermarket? Is that not a bit like preaching to the converted?


  • #16
    sfwcork
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭sfwcork


    wrote:
    Why would you advertise for a supermarket in the actual supermarket? Is that not a bit like preaching to the converted?

    who said anything about advertising the supermarket in the supermarket

    Have you ever been to specsavers!


  • #17
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    phasers wrote: »
    My local Tesco plays cover versions of current pop songs. It's bizarre, the songs sound almost the same and then you realise someone else with a similar voice is singing them. Is it cheaper to play cover versions? Why not just play muzak or something?

    I think it is actually if you have a lot of stores, just pay the cover bands once off for their recording and not IMRO/whoever does music rights in the uk for the original artists.


  • #18
    mconigol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭mconigol


    OP have you tired out the thread on parents and if they have a favourite kid? I think you would enjoy it.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056855380




    Now, continue... :D


  • #19
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    sfwcork wrote: »
    who said anything about advertising the supermarket in the supermarket

    Have you ever been to specsavers!

    The thread is about the supermarket making announcements over the music.

    The announcements are advertising.

    You then posted "Supermarket in advertising shocker"

    I naturally assumed you were pointing out that the supermarket in the OP was merely advertising, like all supermarkets do.

    I then responded, questioning the effectiveness of a supermarket playing advertisements to its own customers.

    Please tell me where I have gone wrong on my timeline.


  • #20
    sfwcork
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭sfwcork


    are you seriously asking why are supermarkets advertsing over the intercom?


  • #21
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    Quazzie wrote: »
    That's what loosers do :D

    FIXED... :p


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  • #22
    shrewd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭shrewd


    Shenshen wrote: »
    May I be the first to suggest an ipod? ;)
    May I be the second to suggest an ipod? :D


  • #23
    RikkFlair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,124 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    I believe Coldplays last album was recorded with getting supermarket airplay in mind.


  • #24
    WanabeOlympian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 130 ✭✭WanabeOlympian


    Always find aldi and lidl has an eery/ creepy silence as people shop. Feel like bringing in a sound system and playing some tunes while going around, liven up the place.

    And what's the story with the two tills for the 30 odd customers waiting ? They're not THAT cheap to shop at, that's just greedy!


  • #25
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,610 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    sfwcork wrote: »
    are you seriously asking why are supermarkets advertsing over the intercom?

    Why are supervalue advertising supervalue when you are already in supervalue?


  • #26
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    kneemos wrote: »
    Why are supervalue advertising supervalue when you are already in supervalue?
    To make you buy extra shit you weren't planning to buy.


  • #27
    Scar Tissue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,391 ✭✭✭Scar Tissue


    phasers wrote: »
    My local Tesco plays cover versions of current pop songs. It's bizarre, the songs sound almost the same and then you realise someone else with a similar voice is singing them. Is it cheaper to play cover versions? Why not just play muzak or something?

    Something to do with cheaper licensing fees if it's cover versions than the original artists I believe


  • #28
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    phasers wrote: »
    Why would you advertise for a supermarket in the actual supermarket? Is that not a bit like preaching to the converted?
    kneemos wrote: »
    Why are supervalue advertising supervalue when you are already in supervalue?
    It is usually advertising particular products for sale, which people browsing might not have seen. Just like lidl have booklets on the way in, I read them when I go in now -since I often missed stuff I read about later. Same in other shops sometimes I buy stuff I only knew about because of announcements.


  • #29
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,610 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Supervalue is a bit of a misnomer in fairness,fairtoaveragevalue might be more accurate.


  • #30
    OneArt
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    WanabeOlympian wrote: »
    And what's the story with the two tills for the 30 odd customers waiting ? They're not THAT cheap to shop at, that's just greedy!

    I think that's just a German thing. Even big supermarkets here would only have one or two tills, and usually only one is open.

    Drives me feckin' verruckt.


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  • #31
    WanabeOlympian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 130 ✭✭WanabeOlympian


    ich auch!! :P


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