Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive

Re:Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the ... by Mountain_Skies on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @10:08PM (#25272836)

Fun that some of the messages in-between the songs are for things like security being called to go to a particular zone of the store. I remember hearing those as a kid and wondering who got busted, never thinking that the announcement might be as fake as the security cameras.

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Re:Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the ... by jdporter on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @03:22PM (#25281053)

It isn't always fake. I used to work in a retail chain store (I won't say its name, but it ends with "xx" and starts with "TJ") and we were trained to use certain codes on the PA when we needed security to come deal with a situation. The difference, I think, is that these real alerts were coded so as not to be understood by the customers.

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Re:Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the ... by waihtis on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @02:51AM (#25274125)

"All warfare is based on deception."

- Sun Tzu, 5th century BC

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Re:Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the ... by beamatronic on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @09:25AM (#25276570)

You just blew my mind. It was very convincing hearing these as a kid.

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Re:Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the ... by BTCOG on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @12:13PM (#25278599)

As a kid? Kroger stores regularly play these loudspeaker "Security check, zone blue" announcements to this day in certain stores about the country.

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