I will copy and paste my rant from 2015 below. (Little has changed in nearly 5 years since I posted that.  A few newer songs are now mixed in the selection they play at my store, but the same old "oldies" have not changed in five years. Meaning this: They have NOT added any DIFFERENT oldies in 5 years.......there are tens of thousands of classic oldies (pop, country, rock, easy listening) that are potentially available from the 1950s to the 1980s. They only have a few (maybe several hundred) oldies on the playlist, and have NOT "retired" them to start playing a whole entirely new selection of oldies. This is my main complaint. IN STORE AUDIO NETWORK specializes in stale, stale and more stale).  I suppose it is because they are too cheap to purchase the rights to a lot of different oldies? :  

"Is the Kroger Company so poor they have to keep the playlist restricted to a tiny list of crappy songs? "Manic Monday" (played EVERY day, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday (yes, that's seven days a week, every week of the year).....most of us employees should be manic-depressives by now......   

Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" with memorable lyrics just perfect for encouraging our customers to stay in the store:  "Well, now go! Walk out the door! Just turn around now, cause you're not welcome anymore!!!!!"  hey Kroger corporate, are you listening?????  

"Angie baby" about an insane girl. (Are you insane to shop here?) 

"Afternoon Delight" by Starland Vocal Band.  A song about sex encounters after 12:00 noon(?).     Played so many times I now feel almost nauseated when it starts.

"These Dreams" by Heart.  It might be OK if I had only heard it 50 times,  instead of about 10,000 by now. 

Here at my Kroger, I have to think of this hypothetical scenario: Let's pretend you are working in an office. You are always tied to your desk. To the right, over in the corner is a TV set, turned up a bit too loud. It is required by upper management to be on at all times.    All of the programming consists of about 50 to 100 TV shows, BUT only one episode (and only one) of each show. One episode of Cheers, one episode of Gilligan's Island, one episode of Knot's Landing, one episode of Bewitched, one episode of Full House, one episode of Star Trek, one episode of I Love Lucy, one episode of (name a show, new or old). The TV will only show that one episode from each show, and the only surprise will be the exact order the shows will be broadcast on any certain day. But, imagine this goes on for weeks, months, maybe even years. After awhile you know all the funny bits, the upcoming scenes. It becomes increasingly boring and frustrating.  But you are not allowed to watch anything except for what is shown on this particular set.

This is *almost* how I am getting to feel about the music in my store. 

Kroger should start off with an entirely DIFFERENT and  EXTENSIVE playlist (covering 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s hits) so that any one particular song isn't heard that often.   There are millions of songs out there.   Do we have to hear the same ones every single day????" 

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I'm having a hard time believing that the music played at a particular grocery store is worth talking about on a podcast, or any similar media outlet. I mean, generic music that is impossible to offend anyone is played all over the place.

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 I have to agree.  When I read it, I thought why Kroger?  It's not as if the music selection is exclusive to Kroger.  It's InStore Audio Network, and they don't just play in Kroger stores.

I will copy and paste my rant from 2015 below. 

This is exactly what I'm looking for -- could you email me @ agoldman@gimletmedia.com?

Thanks,
Alex

Alex Goldman wrote:

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I will copy and paste my rant from 2015 below. 

 

This is exactly what I'm looking for -- could you email me @ agoldman@gimletmedia.com?

 

Thanks,
Alex

-- Edited by Alex Goldman on Tuesday 10th of March 2020 09:47:44 AM

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 Alex, I would love to, but I must remain completely anonymous about this subject. If it should get back to Kroger, I could be out of a job. They fire (or reprimand) for much more flimsy reasons than complaining about their music service on a public forum.  

Alex Goldman wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

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Alex Goldman wrote:

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I will copy and paste my rant from 2015 below. 

 

This is exactly what I'm looking for -- could you email me @ agoldman@gimletmedia.com?

 

Thanks,
Alex

-- Edited by Alex Goldman on Tuesday 10th of March 2020 09:47:44 AM

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 Alex, I would love to, but I must remain completely anonymous about this subject. If it should get back to Kroger, I could be out of a job. They fire (or reprimand) for much more flimsy reasons than complaining about their music service on a public forum.  

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 Hi, Anon,

 

That's totally fine, I would be happy to keep you completely anonymous. Can you email me @ agoldman@gimletmedia.com? or text 917-589-6400?

 

Thanks, Anon.

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 They should bring back KRGR. It was the Kroger Company radio station came by Satellite. I remember having a big C-Band dish and once picked it up from home. It was audio only. KRGR may have only been in Atlanta Division. See this thread.

https://krogerforum.activeboard.com/t65850503/who-remembers-krgr-kroger-radio/

At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist... read Snowden's book "Permanent Record," and the proceed to not email people you don't know or trust.

I work there and ALLL of those songs play at my store. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me if you had a song play of a guy just screaming and the kill bill song. they dont play at out store anymore because what the ****, I feel like were the only store that had those songs. we play more modern music, like Ariana grande, Adele, camila cabello, shawn Mendez, niall horan. just cute songs that you can easily tune out because theyre not ****ing weird. The song that goes just another manic monday, I wish it was Sunday oooo I hate that song 

Well, how's this??? In Store Audio Network is the absolute WORST company when it comes to making decent playlists...I could listen to birds chirping or waves crashing all day long...Or even the best of Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass and it would sound better than half of what comes out of the speakers at Kroger...And let me tell you...The repetition of the same music day after day AND those stupid hour chimes and the 9 or 10 songs they constantly play day in and day out is enough to drive ANYONE batty...And by no means is Kroger the only place where their drivel is heard...You go into Target...It's heard there and many other stores and businesses...In an age where we have literally millions of choices for music, it is DISMALLY DEPRESSING that we have to listen to the same, tired playlists over and over again...Like wake up, this is the 21st century, people!!! With all the songs out there, we don't need to hear these limited playlists all the time...I've identified much of the music played on there over the years, too, so it's no secret...I've listed a lot of it here on this thread...

https://krogerforum.activeboard.com/t37453320/music-at-your-store/

By the way, it does seem like they invested in a ton of music from 2017 and then, forgot there were still three years full of music that came out after that...Maybe the newest song I heard on there was something like The Jonas Brothers doing "Sucker"...I feel like I'm stuck in a time warp from three years ago...It wouldn't be so bad stuck in a time warp, if it was 70's music, like you would hear back in the day...Heck, I'd take easy listening or some classical over this garbage anyday!