Have you ever been driven out of a store by the loud music playing over the speakers? Sometimes it can be ridiculously loud, and to some people, painful to their sensitive ears. Some of the lyrics can ...

Loud music encourages consumers to buy red meat. How perfect a metaphor is that for the intrusive nature of music in our grocery stores? It’s literally a red meat issue. Store managers want us to buy ...

There’s proof a business’s music choices have a significant impact on the customer experience. In his iconic song, American Pie, writer and singer Don McLean asks, “Can music save your mortal soul?” ...

Aldi isn’t like other grocery stores. Although they do naturally sell tons of different foods, the German-founded chain is memorable for going against the grocery status quo in other ways. Aldi ...

Loud music encourages consumers to buy red meat. How perfect a metaphor is that for the intrusive nature of music in our grocery stores? It’s literally a red meat issue. Store managers want us to buy ...