Extremely Repetitive, Tiresome and TINY "music" playlist at Kroger

Date: May 13, 2015

Extremely Repetitive, Tiresome and TINY "music" playlist at Kroger

Date: May 13, 2015

It's called torture. We used to have this horrible country music with horrible singers covering the songs. Imagine the way the band that sings Afternoon Delight sounds and imagine them singing a cover of Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire. Torture.

4hourrush · Guru

I didn't really pay attention to the lyrics to Afternoon Delight until a coworker of mine told me that song is about sex, she thought it was hilarious they were playing that song in the store.

They also play this song: www.youtube.com/watch
Closing Time, WE'RE A 24 HOUR STORE.

They've also played Shania Twain's Honey I'm Home, which contains the lyrics "This job ain't worth the pay".

Lord_Uboat · Guru

4hourrush wrote:
I didn't really pay attention to the lyrics to Afternoon Delight until a coworker of mine told me that song is about sex, she thought it was hilarious they were playing that song in the store.

They also play this song: www.youtube.com/watch
Closing Time, WE'RE A 24 HOUR STORE.

They've also played Shania Twain's Honey I'm Home, which contains the lyrics "This job ain't worth the pay".

Playing closing time during work hours is the most passive aggressive thing you can do in the 21st century.

Date: May 14, 2015

Manic Monday makes me want to throw something, especially when it's a Sunday, our most busy day, and the stupid lady is singing "wish it were Sunday, that's my fun day." Oh really? Isn't that nice for you? It must be a luxury to be off on Sunday!

tomato · Senior Member

The default playlist is just a couple of genres, you can fax a sheet to the company that runs it to get whatever genres you want. We have everything from Mozart to metal at our store.

Date: May 17, 2015

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GenesisOne · Guru

Sometimes, when we have a really bad storm that causes the power to go out, even briefly, it will cause the Kroger Radio Network, or whatever the heck it's called, to go dead, and nothing will play. Nothing at all. No music, no Kroger announcements, nothing will come out of the intercom except when someone makes a page. When this happens, it can sometimes take weeks before they "fix" the issue, and let me tell you, those weeks go by much too quickly!

That's about the only instance I can think of when referring to weeks at Kroger going by much too quickly...

SCO · Senior Member

ive gotten to the point where the songs dont really bother me except for a select few.. but then again, i only work on the sales floor a few days a week, the other days i'm at the cash registers and cant hear it.

mega-kitteh · Guru

I work Nightcrew so we have a communal radio that we listen to. Sometimes we'll put the intercom by the speakers and listen like that. Hell, no one ever calls at 2 am asking if we carry a certain product. And management RARELY comes in that early, IF at all. Sooo, no crap music for us

Date: May 21, 2015

Hi "TOMATO": The management at my store shows no interest in changing the music format. They seem to think that all of the employees are mindless drones who are happy and blissfully contented to listen to the same few songs over and over ad nauseum.

In any case, the current format seems to ALREADY be a mix of several "genres": Hard rock, country-rock (Linda Ronstadt "You're no good") , Folk (Joan Baez "The Night they drove ol' Dixie down), soft rock (Bob Welch) Easy listening (Helen Reddy, You and Me against the World), 1970s oldies (Mark Lindsey, "Arizona"), disco (Fly Robin Fly), R & B, 2000's pop (Cher) and 1980s crap. The point of my previous post was that the playlist is HIGHLY REPETITIVE AND VERY TINY!!! (That is, there may be ALL of those genres included, but the number of individual songs from each genre is tiny..........well , except for hard rock and "1980s crap".) SO, even though I might like some of those songs, they are repeated TOO OFTEN!!! Do you get my point?

ALSO.........because of the department/location I work at in the store, I am subjected to this "music" nonstop and there is no way to avoid hearing it, it's not like the front end cashiers who may barely notice it.

4x4 · Veteran Member

We got to a point where we brought a small radio to listen to in our back room. Bad news about that is it only picks up 1 station that plays the same 15 country songs over and over. Hell we even got a co-manager to store expense some batteries for it.

Date: May 26, 2015

Kroger needs to play this song in an endless loop:

Date: May 5, 2016

I'm looking for a song don't know the name or who sings it. Some of the lyrics are " All I do is sit and think of you, missing you" that's all I got lol and she sounds like Mariah Carey. Please help

Date: Jan 13, 2017

To remind us of what a great singer Mariah Carey truly is or was (before the horribly embarrassing snafu on New Years Eve this past December) how about Kroger including some really nice songs like HERO, WITHOUT YOU (almost as good as NILSSON) and I'LL BE THERE in their playlist?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hat1Hc9SNwE