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FailureToCommunicate

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26. Interesting! There seems to be more musak and repetitive announcements EVERYWHERE...

Reply to EX500rider (Original post)

Tue Nov 7, 2023, 07:10 PM

Nov 2023

we shop: food stores, clothing stores, home goods stores... even gas station pumps blast out unwelcome blather.

I can't stand the trend. It's a bit like Nineteen Eighty Four in its pervasiveness.

(Edited to add: Get off my lawn!)

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Walmart is making noticeable changes in every store for morning shoppers. Here's why [View all] EX500rider Nov 2023 OP

They were blasting Christmas music last week. Chainfire Nov 2023 #1

I guess after Nov 10th between 8 and 10 we can be spared of that! mahina Nov 2023 #3

I'll try it in a few weeks Delphinus Nov 2023 #10

good for them! mahina Nov 2023 #2

Will believe it when I see it rurallib Nov 2023 #4

So you think Walmart announced that as some type of April Fools joke? EX500rider Nov 2023 #6

good grief, did I say that? rurallib Nov 2023 #9

My local already cut the music in the morning xmas74 Nov 2023 #16

Good to hear - I shall look forward to it rurallib Nov 2023 #21

It's the only thing around xmas74 Nov 2023 #38

4, 3, 2, 1, HAB911 Nov 2023 #5

Well good luck to the MAGA right avoiding Walmart, they've got nothing else. dem4decades Nov 2023 #8

As someone w/ a profound hearing loss, the lack of too much overhead noise is appreciated, makes it SWBTATTReg Nov 2023 #7

Start playing Thanksgiving Day music... GreenWave Nov 2023 #11

"Attention (deficit) Wal-Mart shoppers" Qutzupalotl Nov 2023 #12

What?? I_UndergroundPanther Nov 2023 #41

I'll never know Marthe48 Nov 2023 #13

As someone with a traumatic brain injury.... usedtobedemgurl Nov 2023 #14

Yeah I posted it hoping the info would help some people on here EX500rider Nov 2023 #15

I don't usually shop in Walmart.... usedtobedemgurl Nov 2023 #17

I use cotton in my ears for a nightclub, never tried it at Walmart bucolic_frolic Nov 2023 #18

Wow Demovictory9 Nov 2023 #19

Loud stores bother me. My nearest target has NO background music and NO audio on their TV wall! Oopsie Daisy Nov 2023 #20

This is why I liike Aldi Axelrods_Typewriter Nov 2023 #25

I dislike the haphazard categorization at Aldi -- Oopsie Daisy Nov 2023 #28

This is no joke: Conjuay Nov 2023 #36

This is no joke Conjuay Nov 2023 #37

I don't know about the experience of others but moniss Nov 2023 #22

I will say that the Walmart by me is pretty clean, even during the niyad Nov 2023 #39

How about walmart paying living wages and stop using SNAP as a corporate subsidy Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2023 #23

Meh. Even if they said they'd stop funding Mike Johnson ancianita Nov 2023 #24

Interesting! There seems to be more musak and repetitive announcements EVERYWHERE... FailureToCommunicate Nov 2023 #26

Not my concern pfitz59 Nov 2023 #27

Remodel NowISeetheLight Nov 2023 #29

My local is remodeling as well. I will avoid the grand reopening. niyad Nov 2023 #31

Lost NowISeetheLight Nov 2023 #34

I know. Everything is moved around. The pet food is now niyad Nov 2023 #35

Not neurodivergent, but I have hyperacusis and severe niyad Nov 2023 #30

Overcaffinated retail is hazardous to the soul! nt Mopar151 Nov 2023 #32

Kudos to Walmart! Hekate Nov 2023 #33

I'm both amazed and encouraged by this? Maru Kitteh Nov 2023 #40