Loud music encourages consumers to buy red meat. How perfect a metaphor is that for the intrusive nature of music in our grocery stores? It’s literally a red meat issue. Store managers want us to buy ...

The fact that Aldi doesn't play music in its stores is another quirk that sets this chain apart from others. But why does ...

Have you ever been driven out of a store by the loud music playing over the speakers? Sometimes it can be ridiculously loud, and to some people, painful to their sensitive ears. Some of the lyrics can ...

Just like elevators, grocery stores are notorious for playing dull music. But as it turns out, there’s actually a reason behind grocery stores’ poor taste in tunes. Matt Gresia, a money and shopping ...

As Amazon’s recent purchase of Whole Foods suggests, a future still beckons for brick-and-mortar stores in our online-driven culture — and new data from Mood Media shows that consumers, by and large, ...

There’s proof a business’s music choices have a significant impact on the customer experience. In his iconic song, American Pie, writer and singer Don McLean asks, “Can music save your mortal soul?” ...