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Loud dance music in shops

  • 15-08-2015 04:49PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17


    I was shopping in Cork this morning and had the ears blown off me in several shops, as they forced their nightclub repetoire upon my fraying nerves. It's so offputting. I complained about it as I paid for my items in one place and the girl just rolled her eyes... Does it bother anybody else?


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    People spend more money in shops with banging tunes. It raises your heartbeat and sends you into a mild panic which encourages you to spend.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    Love it. Makes me feel down with the kids man:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    Yes. I don't shop in such places. I admit that I am the wrong demographic for most of them, but not in every case.

    I think it is often a case of staff choosing music that they like, and they don't care about the customers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 Boolean


    People spend more money in shops with banging tunes. It raises your heartbeat and sends you into a mild panic which encourages you to spend.

    Oh, the only panic I felt was wondering if I could get out before my tinnitus got worse (it did).


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I love loud good dance music not the type of stuff heard in clothes shops though - I think there is a time and a place all the same - and its definitely not while I'm looking for some sh1t shirt for a wedding!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 Boolean


    I think it is often a case of staff choosing music that they like, and they don't care about the customers.


    I thought this too. I feel sorry for staff who have someone else's choice thrust upon them in such a way. To me it would be mental and physical torture.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Boolean wrote: »
    Oh, the only panic I felt was wondering if I could get out before my tinnitus got worse (it did).

    For every 1 person that leaves, 5 people spend an extra tenner


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 108 ✭✭Arytonblue


    Saturday shopping in the city is always a good time to drop the shopping bags, twirl towards the front of the queue and break out a spontaneous dance to the tune of club music, simple really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 Boolean


    For every 1 person that leaves, 5 people spend an extra tenner


    Hmmm I'd be utterly amazed if this were true... does not compute!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 Boolean


    Arytonblue wrote:
    Saturday shopping in the city is always a good time to drop the shopping bags, twirl towards the front of the queue and break out a spontaneous dance to the tune of club music, simple really.


    Ha ha at least that spectacle might keep me in the shop.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭JustTheOne


    Stay away from af and Hollister so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    If it's not Steely Dan I ain't going in.


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


    I might be a bit of a scrooge, but I generally don't like music in shops. It's never, ever good music, either.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I dunno, I think there might be something to music and impulse buying you know. I remember buying half a dozen bantys during the slow set in the Golden Grill many years ago. Hoor of a job sneaking them on the bus home.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Prefer elevator music myself.

    If I have to raise my voice to talk to a worker then I won't be going in.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    Was it this kind of music ?. Walking around shopping in a store that plays this would really make me leave and go to the nearest dealer for some speed. http://www.partyvibe.com:8010/;stream/1


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