Hearing music while grocery shopping is a given, but ever think about the type of music? Turns out there's a reason why stores choose the playlists they do.

While looking for noodles at King Soopers in Louisville, the bouncy studio version of “Scarlet Begonias” by The Grateful Dead started playing overhead. The sound of the 50-year-old tune didn’t make me ...

What kind of music should grocers play? When should they play it? Will it have an impact on the bottom line? A Swedish grocer, who also works as a professor at University of Bath’s School of ...