Should we not demand music-free shops?

I know! My favorite shoe store has lost my business because they blast music few people over 20 would listen to. It drives me from the store.

You're not snobbish, you just want to shop in peace with your own thoughts or hear the person that you're talking to.

I think everyone has the right to shop in peace and quiet. The public doesn't need to be constantly entertained. I agree with you, no music should be playing or it should be very soft, background music.

I've written to my grocery store too because they play a musak trac that is beyond annoying.

Peace lovers unite!

Apart from the music played in the type of shops that encourages the youth to buy which is fair enough in the majority of department stores etc. I think the music is usually at a very acceptable noise level. What I really hate is the music belted out in the actural precincts of the shops. I take my 92 year old father in a wheelchair and every time he tries to talk I have to stop the chair and lean over and ask him to repeat, often still cannot hear him, despite having excellent hearing. When I look around the precincts there are more and more disabled people visiting and it does cause tremendous problems.

I've often thought it odd that the shops and stores feel that background music is essential. They overlook the fact that all of us do not have the same taste in music....Give me piano music any day! Another place where I've felt a blaring radio out of place is the dentist office. After being subjected to Rock n Roll at my 7:20 am dental visit (try to relax for them to work on your teeth!) I switched dentists.

hi spiderman, thank you for the question I thought no one would ever bring up the subject so I'm pleased to find I'm not the only one with a dislike of so called music in shops. I resolved the problem by only doing on line shopping from the warmth of my own home listening to my choice of music that doesn't jar my ears and makes me want to leave a shop in double sharp time,some times without the items I went to buy, their disregard of customers is counter productive.

Don't you agree that the stores play the music the majority of shoppers like? Look around you in the store, it's the music of the younger generation. Well, not music, but the noise they subscribe to.

Not only shops but restaurants as well. At Ponderosa today they've skipped the normal interminable country for - you guessed it - interminable Christmas music. The day after Christmas it'll go back to the twangy country again.

I personally dislike the piped music.

I should imagine that with so much about, people as a rule hardly notice it nowadays. Also the majority of customers/clients would probably be in favour, and that is who the music is aimed at. (With or without subliminal ad's)

I would prefer no music at all but if the management of these shops insist, then they should play soothing music ,quietly ,so that we shoppers don,t have to raise our voices above the racket to make ourselves heard.Like many others,I avoid shops that belt out loud music.

I don't mind `Piped Music' as long as it is at a tolerable sound level.

I look forward to the Carol Singers who will soon be in the mall.

If you think that's unacceptable try working in one like I do. This is the time of the yr. where it's most uncomfortable ... just 30 more days of the same Xmas songs.