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they play music that no one has ever heard of, so that they don't have to pay any licence fees or royalties. To the customers this may not seem a big deal, but as an employee spending most of their life where they work, having to listen to the same dreary, depressing, drivel repeated over and over again can prove to be very distracting and can really effect your mood for the day. Because the music is so bad, you actually concentrate on it more than you would if it was songs you enjoyed and therefore could not possibly be as productive as you should be.

Though I really do hate to hear this kind of ridiculous non-music played in supermarkets, even now that I don't work there anymore, I still feel that it is better than no music at all. When there is no music playing in your workplace, the day can feel twice as long. You can become cranky and snap at your colleagues. You lose any drive that you had on your way to work that morning because as soon as you walk into a place and all you can hear is babies screaming, mothers yelling at them , and that beep, beep, beep of the checkouts, you feel yourself deflating. Walking around the same floor for eight hours a day, trying to do a job and block out the noise of the customers by filling your head with anything and everything, because there is no music to do that for you, is much more distracting than if there was some nice gentle music playing in the background, something with an uplifting beat to help calm you through the day.

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