WALMART CHANGES IN-STORE MUSIC

Walmart is making some in-store changes in response to complaints from workers about their jobs. One of the biggest: changing the music piped into its stores. Before, Walmart allowed stores to pick their own music, which sometimes led to a single CD being placed on endless repeat. Celine Dion’s greatest hits and Justin Bieber were among the records on endless loop in the stores. Now, Walmart will have a DJ based in its corporate marketing department that will pick the music piped to all the stores.
* A single CD on endless repeat, also known as the “Ice Cream Truck Music” effect.
* Celine Dion and Justin Bieber. This explains why surveillance cameras were showing customers walking in and then walking right back out.
* On bad days the Walmart greeters would stand at the door and warn people away.
* Great, you’re a young happenin’ DJ ready to drop some beats on the world, and you end up picking songs for Walmart.
* Oh, and you’re still only making minimum wage.
* I can hear the conversation with the DJ’s agent: “What was the place again? Is that some heavy new nightclub or something?” “Umm, not exactly.”
* That reminds me: You know the day I knew I was getting older? When I heard Van Halen in my local supermarket.
* It’s hard to rock to “Panama” when you’re buying paper towels and breakfast cereal.
* PHONE TOPIC: Ever work in a store that had horrible music? What was it?