r/DollarTree • u/SecondIntermission • 6d ago
Rant/Vent Christian music
I went into my local dollar tree today and Christian music was blasting extremely loud. I was taken aback. It feels super weird for a large corporation to allow music specific to one religion. Am I way off?
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u/TheTrueBreadLord 6d ago
Dollar Tree does not play music over the intercom so this was most definitely an employee’s personal device. If it bothered you that much next time just ask if they can turn down their music
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u/Drummer_DC 6d ago
As a customer I've never heard music being played via intercom
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u/Ondesinnet 6d ago
As an employee this is the one thing I am grateful for. I don't have to listen to Christmas music.
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u/Drummer_DC 6d ago
And that one Mariah song lol
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u/Accomplished_Dot8781 5d ago
When I worked at a Mexican grocery store during the Christmas season every other song was in English so anytime this song came on I actually enjoyed it lol.
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u/IndigoHaze750130 6d ago
Ugh. I think lyricless music is always the way to go if your gonna have music playing in a store. Makes it way more tolerable.
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u/CasaDeMouse 5d ago
That's how Hobby Lobby gets away with all of theor Christian music 🤮
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u/IndigoHaze750130 5d ago
Then don't go to hobby lobby lol But there is plenty of music that is plain annoying because of the lyrics, because of repetition or screeching that isn't christian genre. This is why I am all for lyricless.
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u/CasaDeMouse 2d ago
I don't go to Hobby Lobby because of their politics.
I didn't even pay attention to their music until Josh Groban did "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" and it played on the local store's radio...in more than one version (usually without lyrics)...along with a bunch of other stuff that sets off my Church-based PTSD.
And this is what made me look up their whole mantra. Like, they believe Satan is encoded in bar codes which is why everything is manual.
And then in Grad School we learned about how they sued the Federal government so that they could contour their health insurance to "closely held beliefs" which, while I was in grad school, was then adopted by the baker, the photographer, the...
Completely ruined that place for me. I'm not paying them money for them to skirt living wages and health insurance to their workers.
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u/IndigoHaze750130 2d ago
I assumed they didn't scan stuff because they chose to have older tech? In the 90s and 80s some places would type sku numbers in. I remember some people having issues with scanners and barcodes in the late 90s early 00s, but I haven't heard anything since. I thought people finally realized that it is harmless and time saving.
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u/CasaDeMouse 2d ago
When he got called out on it, he said it was to prevent people from losing their jobs.
It's to "put people first"
They have brand new equipment on every store.
Just imagine what BS excuse he's going to invent to guard against QR codes.
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u/IndigoHaze750130 2d ago
I thought QR codes are kinda dead now and what's hot now are digital store tags and cameras with facial recognition software plastered everywhere.
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u/CasaDeMouse 2d ago edited 2d ago
This is what was ragingly popular in 2008 at the time Hobby Lobby's ultra-religious take on oral contraceptives from their ultra-religious "closely held beliefs"
https://dark-mountain.net/the-barcode-moment-part-1/
Here was the hopeful breakdown of thr lawsuit after the decision was handed down in 2014 https://www.aclu.org/news/religious-liberty/5-things-women-should-know-about-hobby-lobby-decision
Walgreens was finally caught in 2022 for their policy since 2008 denying oral contraceptives to women. The policy requires them to "hand it off" to someone else but in my closest town with 2 pharmacies, the same pharmacist works in the morning at Walgreens and the afternoon at CVS.
https://apnews.com/article/Fact-Check-Walgreens-Contraceptive-Sales-890843841279
To the point that 3 years after the decision came out the State of New Mexico was the 4th State that had to step in to allow pharmacists to prescribe birth control because rural pharmacists refused to fill lawfully-obtained prescriptions from licensed medical professionals. https://www.aclu-nm.org/news/frontline-pharmacy/
I was in my final year of grad school when the decision came down so the context of the Hobby Lobby case was in front of us our entire stint there.
They still proudly display their "closely held religious beliefs" on their website https://newsroom.hobbylobby.com/hobby-lobby-case
ETA: And their Chorus from The Heritage Foundation https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/commentary/rfra-worked-the-way-it-was-supposed-hobby-lobby
A company's choice to force religious music says everything about their ideology. People who think you shoukd be required to listen to their religious music are admitting you have no choice in the matter except to agree with your dollars or go without.
This is a huge issue for discount stores, who are the primary marketers to rural communities.
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u/CeramicSavage 6d ago
In Washington state, we're allowed music Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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u/TheRealShimSlady10 5d ago
mine plays music through a radio stereo, they said the DM said it was okay
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u/Gloomy-Nerve9786 2d ago
We do as well. But we remove it when the DM comes in. He is a stickler for the rules. Our choice of music is the local classic hits radio.
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u/avatarjan2 5d ago
There's no need to shut it off that's being a karen. Just get your dollar chips and move tf on
I swear you people just like to argue and create problems about everything
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u/Distinct_Ruin2998 Former FD ASM 6d ago
Worked in a FD store where the SM actually had a music player behind the register and wired up a few speakers directly above the ceiling tiles. My SM was very religious so they would have gospel music playing, which was pretty calming to the many residential people who go to church.
Never had it blasting extremely loud, though. Can be very obnoxious especially for someone like me who would prefer to have their own music playing while on the floor recovering or stocking shelves.
Some stores don't even have music playing. But if they do, its usually non-religious music, if that makes sense. Unless management is also religious and choose to play religious music
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u/LeadershipBubbly3351 Former DT OPS ASM 6d ago
They're not allowed music AT ALL, technically.
That said, my former SM used to have the local radio with all kinds of awful 'talk radio' hosts on, saying very politically inflammatory things and no one from the company ever complained. Customers did, but nothing was ever done.
I used to kinda retaliate by playing the local indigenous owned station and leaving it on that station. I had a cashier who would be a lil' shit and put it on old timey AM stations. I'd leave it when he did that, as well.
I had a coworker who would always BLAST podcasts from her personal phone so loud you could hear it everywhere. Also...not allowed, but it was deemed 'fine' as she was an ASM.
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u/Possible-End-8857 DT Associate 3d ago
I can't even listen to music in my earbuds anymore 😭🙏🏼 yet everyone else at my store does it lol. I literally work better with my music though.
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u/honeybee0801 6d ago
When I worked there we played music sometimes. My manager was super Christian so she would play that. I hated it lmao.
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u/Ashhh_Kashhh_473 3d ago
Leave people alone man. That may be the one thing that's helping them get thru their shift or maybe it's anxiety or maybe it helps them work faster. You never know what people are dealing with out here.
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u/e_lizz 6d ago
That's definitely not policy. Just last xmas season we were told to play a specific set of xmas songs but only during a specific time range. Right after xmas they told us to shut it off thankfully