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Post by freebird on Sept 8, 2017 14:28:14 GMT
So up the road from me, not far is a business that plays music OUTSIDE during the day. It's not obnoxiously loud (but you can hear it at least a block away) or really annoying music (mostly 90's pop). I can't even hear it most of the time (but I can right now which made me think of it). This business sits at an intersection and you can definitely hear it when you come to stop, turn, drive through, etc.
I'm trying to decide if it's freaking rude as hell (especially if you're across the street from them or next door - I'm neither), or if it's absolutely brilliant. A way to make people look in the direction of your business.
I thought this would be a great poll for the peas.
ETA: This is speakers outside, not coming from inside their business.
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Post by smartypants71 on Sept 8, 2017 14:29:33 GMT
Rude
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Post by mom on Sept 8, 2017 14:30:14 GMT
It would probably bother me, so I am gonna say major A-hole.
I think its one thing to play it where you only hear it when you're at their business, but when you can hear it a block away? That moves you to the annoying category.
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Post by mikklynn on Sept 8, 2017 14:31:40 GMT
I don't want to hear music outside of any business or home. Or, car!
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Post by msliz on Sept 8, 2017 14:34:22 GMT
If it's that loud from a block away, imagine how loud it is when you're sitting in their parking lot.
Definitely *not*brilliant. It's keeping people like me away.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2017 14:43:20 GMT
I chose A-hole, but my opinion is tainted. I used to live in an apartment building situated behind a Ford dealership. The mechanics kept a radio on. During the day I seldom heard it. However, they had the habit of leaving it on when they went home. In the quite of nighttime it was freakin' loud. It happened so often, and the service manager ignored my complaints enough, I ended up contacting the city's code enforcement officer. It got better after that, but never truly stopped. To this day I won't own a Ford.  |
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Post by JustTricia on Sept 8, 2017 14:52:11 GMT
What type of business? Not that it really matters. If it's loud enough to be heard "up the road", it's too loud to listen to at the business itself.
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Post by mallie on Sept 8, 2017 14:59:09 GMT
I wonder if that level of noise is legal?
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Post by threegirls on Sept 8, 2017 15:03:38 GMT
I wouldn't go to that business, ever! If I could hear it from my house I would be getting that music shut down.
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Post by beachbum on Sept 8, 2017 15:05:42 GMT
I wonder if that level of noise is legal? Probably. There was a bar on the main street across from our neighborhood. They had an outdoor area that would have bands play on weekends. The first 4 streets in the neighborhood could here the music with all windows shut - some couldn't here their TVs over the music. They called the police who came out with decibel meters... music was just under the limit. Crazy loud, but legal. Lucky for them the bar closed. Now there's a new seafood dive bar in there, no loud music but good food! SaveSave |
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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Sept 8, 2017 15:07:09 GMT
I think it depends on the type of business.
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freebird
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Post by freebird on Sept 8, 2017 15:18:29 GMT
It's retail.
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Post by busy on Sept 8, 2017 15:22:42 GMT
I’d go with somewhere in between. It’s going to alienate some people. Some people will like it, but it’s probably not going to drive business. I wouldn’t go so far as to say he’s a “major a-hole” for doing it, but I don’t think it’s going to benefit him in the long run and it may cause him problems. So... I’m going say pointless and stupid.
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Post by peano on Sept 8, 2017 15:25:24 GMT
Doesn't your town have any zoning laws? That would never fly here. Businesses can't even have "loud" looking signs. They all have to conform to the quaint New England character of our town.
I personally find other people's music that intrudes upon my personal space annoying and rude. But then I'm a curmudgeon about the insidious creep of media into public spaces, which I also find rude.
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Post by compeateropeator on Sept 8, 2017 15:29:45 GMT
I voted Meh. It would not bother me as I like to hear music and don't mind it anywhere anytime.
However if you can hear it a block away, and it isn't someplace like an outdoor water park or a restaurant/car hop place where you eat in your car or would expect it, it is probably too loud for most people.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Sept 8, 2017 15:44:44 GMT
Super annoying and it would make me never ever shop there.
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Post by milocat on Sept 8, 2017 15:53:23 GMT
What's the purpose of it? I can't see how loud music from a block away or at the intersection isn't going to make many people just turn their car into your business, even if they liked the music. Personally it would annoy the F*** out of me and I would avoid it. Noise is now one of my migraine triggers sometimes, even before it would still would have annoyed me. @justlizzy kinda of ironic that you won't own a Ford because of the mechanics music, like bad marketing in a roundabout way.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2017 16:32:39 GMT
Cide enforcement issue. I would turn them in.
Btw, this is why I won't shop at shop-co. The store manager is into heavy metal. And plays it at ear blasting levels. The store is nearly empty.
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Post by marianne on Sept 8, 2017 16:36:43 GMT
I like my music, but to me it would be super annoying...kind of like the incessant bell ringing at Christmas.
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Post by MizIndependent on Sept 8, 2017 16:40:31 GMT
Live band, not rude. Radio/Muzak...  |
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Post by melanell on Sept 8, 2017 16:44:36 GMT
Reminds me of one of local the Sheetz gas stations. They play their music so loudly over the gas pumps. I don't know if they think they have to compete against the noise of the traffic or what, but if you are in the car you can't even have a conversation with someone right outside the vehicle pumping the gas.
Ultimately my guess is that if you can hear this business's music a block away then there is a decent chance it's too loud for at least some of their customers.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2017 16:51:58 GMT
The world needs more music in it.
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Post by deshacrafts on Sept 8, 2017 17:04:35 GMT
It would depend on how grumpy I was when I went by as to whether it was annoying or not.
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Post by papersilly on Sept 8, 2017 17:07:46 GMT
there is a flea market we go in that held in a high school parking lot. one of the vendors sells used CDs. he plays loud music for what i assume to be all day. you can hear it anywhere in the large parking lot. how annoying especially for the people nearest to him.
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Post by freebird on Sept 8, 2017 17:41:42 GMT
Reminds me of one of local the Sheetz gas stations. They play their music so loudly over the gas pumps. I don't know if they think they have to compete against the noise of the traffic or what, but if you are in the car you can't even have a conversation with someone right outside the vehicle pumping the gas. Ultimately my guess is that if you can hear this business's music a block away then there is a decent chance it's too loud for at least some of their customers.This business puts the speakers outside pointed at the street, I'm not sure how well it can be heard inside. I did go out a bit ago and I think they turned it down because it's much quieter. |
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Post by bratkar on Sept 8, 2017 17:44:22 GMT
I chose A-hole, but my opinion is tainted. I used to live in an apartment building situated behind a Ford dealership. The mechanics kept a radio on. During the day I seldom heard it. However, they had the habit of leaving it on when they went home. In the quite of nighttime it was freakin' loud. It happened so often, and the service manager ignored my complaints enough, I ended up contacting the city's code enforcement officer. It got better after that, but never truly stopped. To this day I won't own a Ford. Funny you mention a dealership. We have a Toyota Dealership by us, that its not the mechanics with the radio, its the dealerships actual outside radio blasting music. Most Saturday nights they forget to turn the radio off when leaving. We don't live close enough for it to bother us, but have heard it driving by at 2am. I feel bad for the people that live behind it.
There is a Chevy dealership in the next town over, that I've only been by during normal business hours and I can hear their radio going through closed car windows with my radio already on. I find it annoying and distracting!
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Post by quiltz on Sept 8, 2017 17:54:07 GMT
I'm not a fan of noise pollution. It would be annoying to me.
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Post by jlynnbarth on Sept 8, 2017 18:01:07 GMT
We have a Toyota dealership across the street from where I work that does the same thing. We are on a super busy 35 mph road, so I don't know that anyone driving would even hear it, but as a customer walking around the lot I would be annoyed. We can't hear it from inside our business because the road traffic is too loud, so it doesn't bother us thankfully.
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Post by peatlejuice on Sept 8, 2017 18:14:33 GMT
I voted "meh", because while I don't find it super annoying, I know that if I were a driver passing by (which sounds like the target audience), I'd be looking around for the dumbass blowing out their eardrums, not encouraged to stop and shop. So it's not brilliant marketing either, IMO.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Sept 8, 2017 21:07:38 GMT
Background music is not uncommon at many businesses, but the key word is background. I would not expect it to be loud enough to be heard the way you describe this one.
Part of the danger with businesses playing music is that personal tastes in music vary a lot. Just as many people might be turned off as might like it.
And I despise when a restaurant or other business has the music so loud that I cannot easily carry on a conversation with the people around me. Unless I have come to your venue FOR the music, keep it subdued enough to not interfere with normal interaction.
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