What Will It Take to Get Retailers to Kill the Music?

By Joe Queenan, The Wall Street Journal || An upscale supermarket I frequent plays music at an insanely high volume. The music itself is mostly fearsome golden oldies including the preternaturally ghastly “Take on Me,” but perhaps fearing massive customer defections or class-action suits the store doesn’t play Nordic death metal or anything by James Taylor.

But the music they do play is loud: really, really loud.

I am not the only one who notices this. Friends have noticed it. And several members of the staff have told me that they have repeatedly begged the manager to turn down the volume. To no avail.

“It gets really bad at Christmastime,” one long-suffering woman working at the pastry counter told me, noting that Yuletide season is fast upon us. “I have to wear earmuffs.”
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Go here to read more on this annoying problem.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/what-will-it-take-to-get-retailers-to-kill-the-music/

[IMO, this is a tactic to get customers out of the store faster. My son & I used to go to Texas Roadhouse where the music was turned up to 11! We asked several times to have the volume turned down so we could converse. Nine out of ten times it was not. So we ate and left, leaving our table empty for the next people to eat & run. BTW, the place was not packed and no one was standing in line so the “hurry up and get them out of here” ploy was useless and may have actually cost them sales of more drinks and/or dessert.]