Chase-Pitkin and Home Depot seem to both be stuck on some really cheesy mid90s pop piped-in station. With a mix of motown in there. Really? That's what their shoppers want
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Yeah, but it was a bread machine, so it's like earning an A+ in the remedial bread class as opposed to the A.P. (Best I could come up with -- differences in terms for tracked classes vary so much)
One of those waking nightmares whenever I walk into a store and hear it (I know it from my 6 month (and 6 months too long) experience at Staples, ack! *shudder*) yet you'd think it'd be cheaper to just set the station to WINK106 or something? But nooooo... we gotta have our preprocessed cheesy mid-90's pop!
I don't think it is a matter of what shoppers want, or even a conscious decision on the local business' part... instead, I think the Muzak organization approached the big wigs at each company and convinced them that this would be a "really good thing", so as a result lots of money is shelled out for services that are quite easy provided locally (but at least this way that service is uniform and identical across all the stores in the chain). Anything to remove the decision-making process from the store-management, and focus more on retail.
Yes, yes, that's what I meant, just brainfarted. All I could think of it as was "digital/satellite/commercial-free radio" I think I read for a few days once on the evils/fakeness of Muzak, but now I don't remember where/when. Probably on memepool.com or somesuch.
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That wouldn't happen to be "Muzak", would it?
One of those waking nightmares whenever I walk into a store and hear it (I know it from my 6 month (and 6 months too long) experience at Staples, ack! *shudder*) yet you'd think it'd be cheaper to just set the station to WINK106 or something? But nooooo... we gotta have our preprocessed cheesy mid-90's pop!
I don't think it is a matter of what shoppers want, or even a conscious decision on the local business' part... instead, I think the Muzak organization approached the big wigs at each company and convinced them that this would be a "really good thing", so as a result lots of money is shelled out for services that are quite easy provided locally (but at least this way that service is uniform and identical across all the stores in the chain). Anything to remove the decision-making process from the store-management, and focus more on retail.
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