In restaurants, bars, and retail stores, music is more than ambiance—it’s a business tool that drives customer behavior, shapes brand identity, and increases sales. The right soundtrack can make ...

Just like elevators, grocery stores are notorious for playing dull music. But as it turns out, there’s actually a reason behind grocery stores’ poor taste in tunes. Matt Gresia, a money and shopping ...

As Amazon’s recent purchase of Whole Foods suggests, a future still beckons for brick-and-mortar stores in our online-driven culture — and new data from Mood Media shows that consumers, by and large, ...

Have you ever been driven out of a store by the loud music playing over the speakers? Sometimes it can be ridiculously loud, and to some people, painful to their sensitive ears. Some of the lyrics can ...

Speakers, like the one above this grocery store checkout aisle, stream oldies designed to influence your shopping habits. Credit: Photo by Jesse Sendejas Jr. If you’re in the grocery store today, ...

Loud music encourages consumers to buy red meat. How perfect a metaphor is that for the intrusive nature of music in our grocery stores? It’s literally a red meat issue. Store managers want us to buy ...

For millennials, grocery stores are a microcosm of long-forgotten comfort music. With each trip, we let go of our egos and embrace the healing vibes each soft rock banger, power ballad and pop tune ...