to be put off shopping in some supermarkets because of various deeply irritating sounds, alarms and till noises?

[LindorDoubleChoc]

I think it's since people can order groceries online and have them delivered by motorbike.

There's this really loud clanging sort of chiming noise (like a phone ringing but even more intrusive) just going on in the background more or less constantly in my Sainsburys Local. What is it, why doesn't anyone turn it off?

Combined with the 4 self service tills all barking out their instructions continuously, shopping in there is a really nerve-grating experience.

Plus the staff yelling at each other to make themselves heard over the cacophony!

I long for the days supermarkets just had manned tills. I do find the noise/instructions/beeps from the various machines/self serve tills rather irritating.

Agree 100%. I was in Morrisons last night & one of the self service machines was open, clearly an engineer was working on it, but it was making a constant beeping noise. After about 5 seconds I wanted to launch it out the window.

None of that bothers me. However, when I went grocery shopping today ‘Do they know it’s Xmas was playing’. On a loop. That bothered me. Didn’t do a full shop as just desperately wanted to get out really. Why they would think that’s suitable I have no idea.

I have misophonia yet I’m able to work on a supermarket checkout. I must be blocking all that noise out.

The chimes are people ordering on apps like deliveroo and ubereats. The local Co-Op has a very irritating one which says something like "new order received" on repeat until a staff member picks it up.

Personally, I find the canned Christmas music much more unbearable. Lidl and Aldi all the way.

I remember going to a large Sainsburys about 6 years ago. The store had no Catalina (the coupons) rolls. So the printers were all beeping. 40 odd beeping machines. Why couldn’t they disconnect the power? As my friends work for Sainsburys have told me they can switch off

If was working with that, I would have walked out

Supermarkets have got noisier in many ways, yes the beeping and self service tills, but also, constant announcements over the tannoy, annoying music, but worst of all more screaming kids than ever!! And it’s the screaming that really gets to me, I almost freeze, I can’t focus.

Little coop self service tills are so loud and they go off when people walk past. I can't shop there anymore. It's awful.

Our local Asda has a quiet hour but it is whether you can get to it. 2-3pm, they turn off the music, staff work quieter etc. I have never been at that time I am more of a 6.30am, get in, get done, get out.

I have also worn in ear headphones so all I can mainly hear is the book I am listening to.

I always have headphones in when I’m shopping, but I can still hear the constant bloody deliveroo order alert on the staff’s handheld thingy. 🙄

Recommend headphones though!

Screaming kids. Parents have no idea how their lack of input in shushing their kids has an impact on fellow shoppers.

i saw a man come up to a mother with screaming kid, asking her for 50p as why should he pay for paracetamol to get rid of the headache caused by her child

Why don't they make that the default and then have a disco hour where the people who like music can bop as they shop? Why do we have to organise our day around when the supermarket deigns to have a period without irrelevant noise?

The whole world is far too noisy these days. I tend not to go into a shop without noise cancelling head phones firmly in place. Same for train stations, and anywhere public really!

For me it's the lighting as much as the noise. I find Asda lighting depressing, and Tesco is too bright.

But yes, the bleeping and announcements and loud music are all too much.

It's probably the alerts going off everytime someone orders something to be delivered by motorbike to avoid going into the store.

We have deliveroo, Uber & just eat - it's probably the deliveroo one that's annoying you as it's loud, just repeats & you can't silence it until you start picking which is impossible if you have 10 orders & 1 person picking.

It's worse for us, trust me a lot worse!

Earplugs/head phones I find with my hearing aids everything is v loud now, or just over emphasized as I’m now more aware. I just turn them right down in certain places. Also a nurse and wards are super noisy with monitors, alarms etc etc etc Obs don’t turn down at work but you get used to that noise more I think, tolerate it better. But it’s lovely to take my ears off when I go home to bed and have silence

Some places have a quiet hour although they’re during many people’s working day (a shopping centre near has quiet hour on Tuesday afternoons, for example) but if not then you could try to go then. You are absolutely NBU. Noise pollution is awful and seems to be getting worse.

Going to Tesco usually ends with me wanting to cry. Everything is so overwhelming. The noise: the canned music interrupted with the adverts, the beep, beep, beep of the till, the rattle of the cages being dragged along the floor, "there is a caller at the back gate" tannoy on repeat and everything echoing. The lights are too bright and shiny as well. Sainsburys was fine but now they've replaced their lights with 10,000 watt neon monstrosities. At least they aren't as noisy though. Waitrose is nice and calm and Lidl is usually ok.

I know so many people who agree, I can't understand why the shops do it. I'd definitely spend more money if I could take my time and not have to run round as quick as possible to limit the time I have to put up with it.

I don't use Asda because of the constant "music". I can't think in there. They do the same in B&Q, where you often have to do calculations in your head. It's a hellscape.

The please take your items gets my goat on self service when your trying to pack your items... jeeze give me a chance .

Our b&q is really calm I enjoy going there in the plants department 🥰