Stop singing to me!

[novapsyche]

I walked to Kroger to pick up a few things. But no sooner than walking in the door did I realize that something was sorely amiss.

I was listening to Christian music.

I hadn't planned on doing a lot of shopping in the first place. I walked around with one item in my basket for a while, then decided to put it back. I didn't like shopping while being proselytized.

Actually, about four minutes before I put the item back, the music abruptly changed to some 80s tune, and I thought maybe it was just a weird blip. But then it changed back to Christian music.

I put the basket back and I went to customer service. The lady greeted me, and I asked if she were the manager. She said she was the manager of customer service, and I told her I would like to speak with someone regarding the playing of Christian music over their sound system. She called the manager.

The manager was a gentleman in his fifties, I'd say, and probably unaccustomed to customers complaining about the music. I explained that I had shopped in that store for about four years, and that I had noticed that they got music in about five months ago. I told him I usually liked their music selection, but I wanted to know what Kroger's policy was regarding the playing of Christian music. The man responded by saying that there had always been music, but maybe it had been turned down low (which I don't believe, because like I say I'd been shopping there for years, and I remember walking in that day when I heard music, and I thought, "Wow, this is odd"). At any rate, Kroger gets its music through its own Kroger station, and they (whomever "they" may be) determine the song selection. He didn't recall any Christian music being played. I said, "There's one playing right now, and about five minutes ago, there was a song called 'Solitaire'?" His rejoinder was that, well, stores play Christmas music during Christmas time. I said, "I would not complain about a store playing Christmas music during the Christmas season. But people of all faiths shop in this store, and it would seem to me that if you play the music of one, you should play the music of them all." The man said that again it was Kroger music but that he would pass my comment along. I reminded him that I was a long-time shopper and that I appreciated his service. And I left.

I feel like finding out more about Kroger's corporate policy about playing Christian music.

Comments

[errattum.livejournal.com]

That happens here in Texas too. Not at all of them just some. It's the dregs.