That annoying soundbyte that's played over the "music" system about every 4 minutes , all day long. It sounds like a chorus of 4 or 5 voices singing several words/notes (of no melodic/musical interest WHATSOEVER) that are practically unintelligible. Finally figured out it's something about "Nabisco". Does this crap bother anybody else or are my ears just more sensitive to annoying sounds than the average person?????
(Original poster here) My name is not Todd, so I must assume there are at least 2 of us somewhere in Kroger-Employee-Land that hate that ad!! Thank you for posting.
Nabisco: Our cookies are so lame, we have to bribe you to buy them?
Save the fuel for morons? No thanks, I'd rather just dump it down a storm drain and throw a match in; it would do much less damage that way. But I suppose Marketing thinks it should get to eat something...
Avocados from Mexico--because gosh, it's not like we grow any here in the states.
But yeah! Naming Jason Derulo, he of the wiggle-wiggle-wiggle sonata, as "iconic"? Thinking that putting catch phrases from songs everyone is sick of would bind friends together? Right up there with new Coke, you idiots.
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But then there's the wine stains, er, spots, which are actively toxic. They're in a class by themselves. There's one in rotation right now claiming that only when you're drunk on cheap spoiled grapejuice does "time stand still". Same one failing to understand that an "in-joke" is exactly one derived from shared experience that doesn't have to be explained.
Or the one whose product results from the supposedly unique innovation of aging it in used barrels--something that's been done for hundreds of years.
The winery's contempt for the intelligence of its target market is profound.
-- Edited by The Conditioner on Sunday 13th of November 2016 07:41:01 AM
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...but I'd settle for a nerve or two.
When hearing the Nabisco ad just faintly (like you are not close to an overhead speaker) the sung notes sound faintly like a woman wailing in anguish. And when heard faintly, the dog commercial's second "bark' sounds like a quick screech by a woman that is about to be killed. Both are wonderful soundbytes for our loyal customers and hard-working employees............ NOT!!!!
InStore Audio Network, THAT is the company that supplies Kroger with the tired, dull, sickening, stale, repetitive music and the downright insulting ad spots. There should be a revolt (signed petition?) by employees against Kroger for using that firm!
Does anyone know how to turn the volume down or change the styles mix should someone have access to the store's "nerve center", the Krogrr Holy of Holies? (We want to do this nondestructively, just some temporary relief from the barking and blasting.)
i wish i could just hear it as garbled background noise, but alas, one of the disadvantages of working night crew is hearing every radio ad and terrible song full force. could bring headphones, but the team leader frowns upon them, so i'm forced to suffer into the wee hours of the night.
it's actually advertising the promotion nabisco is doing for their 115th birthday which is that if you type in a UPC code you can earn an entry to possibly win $115,000. Now I have been typing in UPC codes every day since they started the promotion
