What music does your local supermarket play?

I was in a local gourmet sandwich shop (mostly very good food) owned by a young couple. Modest Mouse was playing. It was not fun.

I've never been forced to hear Modest Mouse while buying a burrito.

i heard Neon Indian once at Whole Foods. that somehow seemed a little weird to me

I was in Sunflower tonight and "Don't Stop the Dance" came on. Sounded pretty amazing. The guys who stock the shelves did not clownishly sing along with it, as they do with a lot of the older oldies. I don't know, maybe the music there gets cooler after 8PM or something.

one time i was in a krogers at like 3 AM and the entirety of tool's lateralus was playing over the loudspeaker. it was weird because usually they just played soft R&B and adult contemporary stuff

Since we have a Target relatively close to our house, I do most of my shopping there and they don't play any music. Its kind of eerie when it gets late and its quiet in there.

the main section of the local co-op plays all sorts of stuff, often a lot of 70s soul/disco. the dairy department, however, is ALL METAL ALL THE TIME. which is awesome.

All 14 minutes of Neil Young's "Change Your Mind" while waiting for prescription at Walgreens.

Not the supermarket, but when I walked into Home Depot today, they were playing "I Feel Love".

My supermarket always plays 80s hits, which is pretty great but also makes me realize that I'm old enough to be the target demographic for supermarket music.

Casinos are the worst. Think I heard a Green Day-Alan Jackson-Al Wilson set last time I was at crablegs buffet.

Heard "Israelites" the other week in the grocery store.

Silence in mine.

last week was that POS Dan Fogelberg song "Longer than...", which I can never remember who perpetrated cuz I am not a fan of it like some of the pervs on ILM.

my supermarket was playing "i feel love" yesterday morning too!!! and then "le freak" while i was in the bulk section. they're always playing disco/funk and i love it. it has to be some kind of digital radio service for franchises and big box stores and the like right? anyone know anything about this?

gonna be weird in 30 years when Kroger plays trancecore.

i'm fascinated by the station my laundromat plays -- 94.7 the wave -- which is l.a.'s smooth jazz/mellow jammin-oldies station with some '90s r&b and the obligatory adele hits thrown in. it really doesn't know how to market itself. wikipedia sez "hybrid smooth AC" though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTWV

My local Ultra plays soul hits like "Shotgun" and "Harlem Shuffle". Why don't more stores realize that dance music makes you want to stay in the store and buy more tasty food? It made me realize that too many people think going to the supermarket is a chore, not a pleasure.

The shopping centre below my apartment used to play Wings albums when it got semi-deserted in the evenings. Mr Artists' Royalties man must have paid a visit, though, as now they just play supermarket muzak. ;_;

Stereolab and the Smiths plays every single time I go to Shophouse (an Asian spinoff of Chipotle) in DC.

"I Wanna Be Sedated" - The Ramones (1978)

Was in Sprouts earlier than I normally make it and heard:

Rock Around the Clock
Stevie Wonder - You Are the Sunshine of My Life
Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink [Inferior film version]
ABBA - Dancing Queen

in that order (unless there was something between Rock Around the Clock and Stevie that I'm forgetting, but I don't think so).

Richard Butler was a bit jarring after Stevie Wonder.

Today I heard ”California Stars” by Wilco and ”Wild Wild Life” by Talking Heads

1,2,3,4 by Feist

I keep hearing Erasure at Shaw's. It's awesome.

Store I go to now keeps playing this song about how great "American Pie" is. Horrid.

Avril Lavigne - "Complicated"
+ some song baout "shining like a diamond"?? idk

now I'm home listening to cat power like Shit, why didn't I get some beer??

Was just in a little claustrophobically hip co-op and when I heard the music playing I thought: what is it with all this music from recent years that sounds just like 1981? But then it turned out to be Joy Division, on further listening.

"Transmission," live.

i heard "cosmic dancer" by t-rex in a walgreen's recently that was kinda weird

I'm compiling songs and notes for mix CDs to be played in a retail hell (Dollar General, where my daughter works). I'm shooting for stuff that sounds bubbly and poppy, but subtly confounds retail-environment expectations. The objective is to create the subconscious effect "I want to simultaneously spend all my money here and riot in the streets." Any suggestions?

Background: I had made her a chronological Beatles comp several years ago, which she took to work when she started at DG last year. She reported back that other employees would see the name "Beatles" on the disc, think "yay, pop!" and play it, and be freaking out a bit by the end because it had "Helter Skelter" and "She's So Heavy" on it.

just make it all stevie wonder

when you open any of the dairy cases at my local co-op, you hear death metal

Posted it on the Eagles thread, but Kroger was playing the Tom Waits original of "Old '55" last weekend.

Huh! That's the sort of thing I'm thinking of. Playlists of generally upbeat pop/rock (though never quite the song you'd associate with that artist) with the occasional labor/organizing song or drug song like "Minnie the Moocher."

today at the co-op i heard "happy". Its always played in there when I go in. Its always played in the shopping mall in the town centre too.

I just heard "Love Will Tear Us Apart" in the Smith's near me, which has pretty low-income and heavily Hispanic demographic (with a good sprinkling of Native Americans and African Americans). I regularly see guys with face tattoos in this store.

my supermarket plays nothing but bonnie raitt's 'have a heart' over and over

That's Bonnie Raitt?

Well I'll be damned. Always thought that was some 90s songstress like Shawn Colvin or Natalie Martika.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnYz0yW0OCA

mostly 80s hits

mine doesn't play any but if it did it would be garbage

Surprisingly varied! I heard the National and Boz Scaggs and Frankie Beverly last week.

"see no evil" by television heard at fred meyers today.

I heard "Fairytale of New York" at McDonald's! Was legit shocked (what with "cheap lousy faggot", "old slut on junk" etc)

My new supermarket seems to always be playing "Bizarre Love Triangle." Maybe they just throw it on when I walk in?

I heard "Fairytale of New York" at McDonald's! Was legit shocked (what with "cheap lousy faggot", "old slut on junk" etc)

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I heard it at least twice in public areas in the runup to Christmas. It doesn't really shock anyone here in the UK as everyone's heard it.

My local Sainsburys doesn't play music. Perhaps I should be thankful.

of my two local supermarkets - which belong to the inauspiciously named chains "Buy-Low" and "No-Frills" - one plays a pop mix ranging from the almost contemporary back to the 70s but at a very low and unobtrusive volume so it's hard for me to remember any tracks they play, though "hurt so good" by john cougar mellencamp was definitely playing the other day. the other plays a louder and exclusively 80s mix - yesterday: phil collins' "two hearts", baltimora "tarzan boy", and Madonna "borderline" - which I really enjoy.