at the grocery store

We all know that music is everywhere, even in the grocery stores. The local grocery store where I live closed. Sad to say, it was a great loss for my mother and I. She is always in the grocery store picking up odds and ends, and I usually go with her. When we would go to this particular grocery store my mother would always talk about how good the music was. They would play pop music from yesteryear, usually from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. She would always know the song and would occasionally sing or hum along with the record. She was not the only one to do this though. We would run across a lot of people, who were grocery shopping, doing the same thing. They would all say how great the music was. Here recently a new store has opened. My mother hates the store because they don’t play music often, and when they do, it is nothing that she wants to hear. She says that shopping is not the same anymore, and how she wants the old store back. I have to admit that shopping in that store is not as exciting as the other. I never realized that it was the music that was making it that way.

I feel like the music helps people relax. In the grocery store, people are often in a rush to get home and cook. They have been at work all day, and now they must go home and begin to work all over again. Instead of making the grocery shopping more stressful than it already is, the music is there to lighten the mood.