I’m already in your store, shopping for groceries, spending money, so just quit marketing to me over your PA system, with that smarmy pre-recorded radio disk jockey announcer voice that is so loud and so annoying, it feels like knitting needles are poinking my head. Just shut up already, I can’t believe you subject your employees to that day in and day out. —Heard enough
This article appears in Jan 28 – Feb 3, 2016.
So put in your earphones, pump up some volume on your Fart Phone and tune it out. So simple, so effective. No knitting needles plucking at your grey matter.
Hahaha!
Or shop somewhere else.
The staff have been there so long they don’t even hear it, anymore.
Yeah, that crap was an early form of ‘Pop Up Ad’. Must work though or they would have stopped them by now.
Ha ha ha! I always thought those were hilariously corny — as if some big corporate chain can make itself seem so much more folksy by having that guy make announcements like:
“Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit’s PICKLING SEASON! Time to get all those jams and relishes bottled up and stored in the cellar for the winter! Mmmmmmmmmmm! And you’ll find everything you need in aisle 3 . . . Pickles! And so much more! Here at your friendly neighborhood ___________Store!”