Like a lot of large retail establishments, we have music piped in via satellite. In our case, I believe it's done by DMX Systems.
In the communications closet (houses the phone system, PA system, satellite receiver, and some of our networking stuff), we used to have a list of stations from DMX, with a handful marked as "approved" to be played during business hours. It's whatever we want after hours. Normally, it stays on the 80s station, or classic rock station (80s being what it sounds like, classic ranging from 60s-early 80s), we'll toss it on the Metal/Thrash station during inventory or resets.
Well today it was hard 90s rock/grunge all day. And it was LOUD! I was having high school flashbacks all day. I know for a fact the 90s station was never on the "approved" list. That list seems to have disappeared, I wandered into that closet today looking for something else. There is no list whatsoever in there now. I'm sure I could pull one off of DMX's website, but I'll leave that up to management to handle. Store management is all in their mid 20s-early 40s anyway, so I know they enjoyed the music.
We have employees from 16 to 75, including a butcher who's been working for us for nearly 25 years and he's in his late 60s now. The other day one of the store managers said "Yeah, I think he came with the building" (my store location has been open for 16 years). My boss is 27 or 28 and has been with the company for 10 years.
There's nothing like some Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit at high volume to drive all the 50+ year old customers out of the store. Or Alice in Chains. Or (newer) Jane's Addiction. Or Pearl Jam. The Offspring. Rage Against The Machine. Pretty much every 30-40 year old customer that came through my line today commented on the music, how they never hear it in my store and how much they were enjoying it.
... then one of our younger baggers saw me rocking out to The Offspring and said "Damn, you really get into this classic rock huh?". Cue me feeling really old all of a sudden. I'm only 31, damnit...
Granted, the kid just turned 17, but c'mon kid, it's not classic rock unless it came out way way before you were born.... uhm.... right guys? right?
Surprised we didn't get any customer complaints about the music today.
In the communications closet (houses the phone system, PA system, satellite receiver, and some of our networking stuff), we used to have a list of stations from DMX, with a handful marked as "approved" to be played during business hours. It's whatever we want after hours. Normally, it stays on the 80s station, or classic rock station (80s being what it sounds like, classic ranging from 60s-early 80s), we'll toss it on the Metal/Thrash station during inventory or resets.
Well today it was hard 90s rock/grunge all day. And it was LOUD! I was having high school flashbacks all day. I know for a fact the 90s station was never on the "approved" list. That list seems to have disappeared, I wandered into that closet today looking for something else. There is no list whatsoever in there now. I'm sure I could pull one off of DMX's website, but I'll leave that up to management to handle. Store management is all in their mid 20s-early 40s anyway, so I know they enjoyed the music.
We have employees from 16 to 75, including a butcher who's been working for us for nearly 25 years and he's in his late 60s now. The other day one of the store managers said "Yeah, I think he came with the building" (my store location has been open for 16 years). My boss is 27 or 28 and has been with the company for 10 years.
There's nothing like some Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit at high volume to drive all the 50+ year old customers out of the store. Or Alice in Chains. Or (newer) Jane's Addiction. Or Pearl Jam. The Offspring. Rage Against The Machine. Pretty much every 30-40 year old customer that came through my line today commented on the music, how they never hear it in my store and how much they were enjoying it.
... then one of our younger baggers saw me rocking out to The Offspring and said "Damn, you really get into this classic rock huh?". Cue me feeling really old all of a sudden. I'm only 31, damnit...
Granted, the kid just turned 17, but c'mon kid, it's not classic rock unless it came out way way before you were born.... uhm.... right guys? right?
Surprised we didn't get any customer complaints about the music today.
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