I remember Kroger Radio (those jingles!) and I remember decent variety...I used to love going into Kroger and hearing what odd thing would be playing next...The repetition of today, though, turns me off big time!
I think I could almost ignore the D-list reject trash music (LOOKING AT YOU MUTEMATH) if it weren't the same few songs, a couple times a day, every day, every week, every month.
One of the only good things about working the fuel center is that some idiot mounted the volume control right above the timeclock.
I'm being threatened with writeups for turning it off, but the glorious silence is worth it.
I think I could almost ignore the D-list reject trash music (LOOKING AT YOU MUTEMATH) if it weren't the same few songs, a couple times a day, every day, every week, every month.
One of the only good things about working the fuel center is that some idiot mounted the volume control right above the timeclock.
I'm being threatened with writeups for turning it off, but the glorious silence is worth it.
We have a volume control knob in our department. It used to control the volume for that whole section of the store, but now it only controls the speakers that are behind the counter. The ones out on the sales floor stay just as loud as ever.
I think I could almost ignore the D-list reject trash music (LOOKING AT YOU MUTEMATH) if it weren't the same few songs, a couple times a day, every day, every week, every month.
One of the only good things about working the fuel center is that some idiot mounted the volume control right above the timeclock.
I'm being threatened with writeups for turning it off, but the glorious silence is worth it.
We have a volume control knob in our department. It used to control the volume for that whole section of the store, but now it only controls the speakers that are behind the counter. The ones out on the sales floor stay just as loud as ever.
Yes I do remember KRGR very well. There is aucually a radio station with the KRGR call sign Speaking of volume controls. There is one on the speaker in the break room. I sometimes turn it down I do not want to hear their loud mouth while I am on break. Then one day someone taped a note on the speaker anyone turning it down would be written up. Can they really do that? I mean we do have Walkie Talkies but it seems the managers stopped using them. They are better because they can be turned low enough to hear.
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In the Dallas area we used to have KRO-Great Radio! with all the 60s and 70s hits you could handle, along with tips from Good Houskeeping Magazine. This was circa 1991-1998.
I worked for Kroger from 1991 - 1993 in the Dallas/Fort Worth area as a cashier/checker. Back then...
Provider: Kroger Radio was provided by the P.O.P. Radio Corporation, and I think Heritage Media took it over. The P.O.P. stood for Point-of-Purchase. The music/programming came from a c-band satellite dish and a c-band satellite receiver.
Music: Provided by Muzak in two versions that I know of: 1. Music with words (it was good music...popular hits... mostly love songs) from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, and 2. There was instrumental/elevator music version. The store I worked in transitioned from the instrumental music to the popular hits with words in 1992.
Commercials/Jingles: Provided by P.O.P Radio. I believe that Muzak merged the P.O.P Radio jingles and commercials together with the music for broadcast. The commercials/jingles NEVER played over the music. When a song ended... then a commercial or jingle played. The jingles included "You're Listening to the In-Store Broadcasting Network", "You're Listening to POP Radio" "The In-Store Broadcasting Network... The Only Radio-o-o-o", "Kroger Radio... Kroger Radio-o-o-o", "You're Listening to Kroger Radio... Part of the In-Store Broadcasting Network", "Kroger Radio-o-o.", "The In-Store Broadcasting Network", "P-O-P Radio-o-o".
The music/commercials/jingles played on about a 2-3 hour rotation in the same order, and that 2-3 hours had a three week rotation. Essentially, you heard the same songs in the same order again every 3 weeks. The music changed late every Sunday night.
The music, commercials, and jingles were good. It was a good format. The current music provider should consider this format.
When I first started (20 years ago) our system had 5 different channels. Many nights we would change it from the "old people" music to more upbeat trendy stuff for the evening crew. Some nights you just needed some county, Top 40, other nights you wanted "old school".
