I happened to visit a well known DIY store (orange & consisting of two letters) today. I also called in at a Morrisons supermarket. Both were guilty of playing abysmal music rather loudly throughout the store. Why do retailers insist on piping music (of any sort) into their stores? It really gets on my wick, it is so annoying. I just want to potter about in quiet contemplation.
You should feel sorry for the poor young sods who have to work there all day and so have to listen to really bad cover versions of songs that were probably released before they were born
If you really want to feel sorry for staff, go to Abercrombie and Fitch. You can barely see anything, or hear anything (loud music) and you can't breathe anything except their vile perfume which is liberally squirted about every few minutes. I have no idea how the staff stand it. If they were older they'd get organised and complain. Apart from the perfume, I quite like their stores, but I wouldn't be able to stand working in one.
I once visited the Beatles store in Liverpool and as much as I quite like Beatles music it soon got on my tits. I'd hate working there listening to it all day.
this is the part where we all sound like old gits..however, this has ALWAYS got on my tits... i find it distracting and infuriating..i hate shopping for anything at the best of times, but particularly in DIY shops as this is always set against the backdrop of aggravation (usually some annoying job thats been bugging me for an eternity at home)....not to mention the fact that you have a couple of items in a basket and no change from £100... as for the pretentious fashion shops, i used to dragged around a few by the ex, and by far the worst offenders were Hollister and All Saints..absolutely pitch black inside and with only a few downlighters here and there..then the appalling deafening music..and they even have items of furniture dotted around, for 'ambience'...no prices on anything, and if there is, its on a black card..then theres the meaningless sizing...when i was into my weight training, I went to a Diesel shop..i tried on a really cool biker style jacket they had..it was an XXL...i couldnt even get my arm into the sleeve..i would estimate that is was perhaps a 40 inch chest at the most..what are these?? childs sizes?? No wonder so many women have body issues and eating disorders.. i fkn hate shopping, period, and these niggles just make my piss boil.
I went into river island with a woman from work yesterday lunch time and they were playing Genius of Love by Tom Tom Club, I was quite pleased. Didn't like the whore clothes in the kids section though
Top tip for shopping in B&Q - never go in there wearing an INS/GSE HM Plant Ducati sweatshirt. The average brain-donor that shops there can't actually read the fact that it says "HM Plant" on it, not "B&Q" and will keep asking you stupid questions about nails and bits of wood... Learnt this the hard way...
I went BQ with my sainsburys uniform on and got asked where items where and the same in Asda :-/ Music in shops annoy me if I have to shout to speak otherwise I only notice it if a song I like comes on That's 14 years of switching off to kids for you.
I hate music in shops too - I forget which shop we were in recently (might have been Waitrose) when it dawned on me that there was no music playing, which might have been why I was less grumpy than usual for a supermarket trip. But if you think it's bad now, just remember - it could be worse - it could be early November onwards when they're playing the same cheesy Christmas shite that they've been playing for the last 20 years. I could never work in a shop round Christmas - I'd go postal if subjected to that aural torture every day. The other half tries to remember the earbuds for his phone so he can put on some of his own music when Christmas shopping to drown out the shop music. I always find Rammstein effective at drowning out the rubbish.
Except in New York where all the appalling American cheesy Xmas songs seem to add strangely to the atmosphere.
Listen to you lot! Trying to pretend you buy your pants from designer outlets rather than Marks and Spencer...
Never go near M&S for anything. Think I was traumatised as a child. I associate them with grey socks, dodgy Y-fronts and navy blue cardigans.
Alongside the terrible music is the heating. Why do most shops insist on having the heating on full blast and barbecue all the customers? I dont really feel the cold and find it unbearable and leave without buying anything. And why are most motorbike related videos on youtube accompanied by that feckin shite thrash metal noise? Is that what motorcyclists are supposed to like?
