/rant on
though we all, I guess, got used to muzak blaring in stores (to set your mood-ring to "spend"), today really pushed me over the edge. far, far worse than the kind of cheese that comes out of disneyland, solvang, or any other such trap. worse in fact than a vintage car burn-out competition!
had to run to fry's for a few odds and ends. they usually play decent music for an electronics store. there's always some noise in the hi-fi demo corner, and a bit of noise from the game console isle, but generally it's satellite radio, sprinkling like a spring rain, not all that annoying.
today they had several screens set up to blast people with starcraft demo videos at the entrance, the music was turned up super loud to compete, which in turn made the TV and car stereo sales people crank up all their demo gear, and finally the gamers had to run a few guitar hero and DDR competitions.
it was like a visit to the preschool playground where they had given every kid a megaphone. don't people who work in that kind of store (which is pretty tightly managed usually) realize that nobody can hear a damn thing that way? yikes!
/rant off
