What music does your local supermarket play?

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.

wow you guys have cool supermarkets. mine seems to actively hate it's patrons and seems to play music design to make people gtfo.

here's the last track I heard just an hour ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEZIpac803M

https://youtu.be/DEZIpac803M

Enjoyed hearing Al Stewart "Year of the Cat" at CVS the other day.

Well where else would you have heard it?

It's certainly no Walgreens track

Had to make a quick stop at a WalMart Neighborhood Market last night, and was greeted by the jammy solo section of "Working Man" by Rush as I walked in. This was made more bizarre by the fact the other two songs I could I.D. afterward were Sam Smith and No Doubt.

i get my hair cut at great clips and in indianapolis that meant they played the pop radio station - pretty much the last place where i would actually hear chart pop. now that i'm in portland the great clips plays "because the night" and beck's "loser".

toni basil - mickey

heart - crazy on you

Kroger was playing the Tom Waits original of "Old '55" last weekend.

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And nearly four years later, I heard it again in the soup aisle!

I mean, I hear the melody to that one or "Downtown Train" and automatically assume it's the more well-known cover.

The supermarkets usually don't play music around here. But I once visited one that played Imagination - Lights and music. This was obviously a great moment.

Or music and lights rather

I was out of the UK from 2002-2016 and, among the many changes, supermarkets stopped playing music. What I would give to hear a nice bit of muzak again.

I know I posted this on some thread somewhere, but it's always good for a re-up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvrPcDw-zuI

At this moment the fucking full Parachutes album by fucking Coldplay

I am genuinely enjoying listening to this, thanks DP.

It's been the soundtrack to my workday a few times. It definitely creates a melancholy, gauzy memory of my youth (the tape hiss helps!)