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In my days working for Superdrug we were given a tape full of R&B sh*te and cRap music. Ideal to play while the chav's nick cheapo jewelery but this one tape on a loop for nigh on 6 months unsurprisingly started to drill into our brains for a bit. We weren't allowed to put up a dish for the digital radio every other branch had. So, taking matters into ours own hands, I asked the manager for the standard tape of adverts and offers and made my own tape of stuff we all liked from the 60's to the 90's, fading down the tracks to play the company's standard special offer adverts half way through tracks just like the normal Superdrug radio. Even the area manager didn't twig.

WHSmith usually have an awful mix of dodgilly faded tracks and adverts or just plain dodgily faded tracks. I believe it's a PC with winamp running on shuffle in swindon.

Being too small and poor for a satillite dish of course we have a CD Player in our branch and play what we want. Currently James Blunt, Now 61 and Smooth Summer Soul are popular on the playlist.

Hymagumba wrote:WHSmith usually have an awful mix of dodgilly faded tracks and adverts or just plain dodgily faded tracks. I believe it's a PC with winamp running on shuffle in swindon.

Morrisons is worse and has recently got worse, AIUI they recieve a Station via Satellite, probably from head office or a seperate company who runs this Radio station, unlike other supermarkets, the Radio system in Morrisons doesn't have a name. What is the norm is that it constantly plays a good selection of music, mainly 80's, 90's and up until 2003 or so. But they always stick in promos, usually half way through a track or worse even a few seconds into it! The promos are constantly the same, at the moment its the same choice of Pantenne, Willy Wonka, one voiced by Sean Bean and the usual keep an eye on your wallets etc

Though it gets better at the end of November when they switch it to Christmas songs.

marksi wrote:

Si-Co wrote:Slightly off-topic, but when I was younger I was actually stopped by a ticket inspector on the bus going to college, and he told me to take my 'Walkman' off (showing my age there!). I naturally rang the bus depot to complain and they told me he was right - the bus doesn't have a license for music, so technically the passengers cannot listen to radio/tapes/CDs even on a personal stereo.

They're wrong. If you were playing music to other passengers then they'd be correct, but as no one else can hear it there's no issue. To be honest this whole area requires new legislation. Radio/tv stations are paying to play music, and some listeners/viewers are then charged again to hear it. It is a case of the music industry having it's cake and eating it.

Exactly! But who is going to take on the music industry? Erm... no-one me thinks.

It isn't that difficult to schedule in the promos so they don't cut the tunes for them...

James Martin wrote:It isn't that difficult to schedule in the promos so they don't cut the tunes for them...

Oh it is for Morrisons. They still haven't grasped how to change a logo.

They have nice food though.

It's probably a bloke with some record players then.

Anyone modern would buy Myriad or something to take care of instore radio.

James Martin wrote:It's probably a bloke with some record players then.

Anyone modern would buy Myriad or something to take care of instore radio.

Perhaps it's just a cassette tape they made up and promos come up automatically at a specific time. :roll:

James Martin wrote: Anyone modern would buy Myriad or something to take care of instore radio.

Yup, Mister Supermarket guy will spent a lot of money on a pro-audio system...even if he knew what it was. :roll:

yes but when it's broadcast around the whole company then one system in head office isn't that much to ask.