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Playing the right music is not just a background element of your retail mix but a key attribute of a fully integrated retail experience. It is an effective emotional cue of your brand’s image aimed at enhancing its true personality. Music plays unquestionably the role of differentiator between your brand versus your competitors and the growing trend of e-commerce.
The right music can have a positive impact on clients’ emotions and moods, global store ambiance, shopping time, product perception, purchase behavior and employee well-being.
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/ Why is Music So Important to Retail Business? [Available on : https://www.moseleyelectronics.com/2017/06/17/why-is-music-so-important-to-retail-business/]
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“Where words fail, music speaks.”
The right music can have a positive impact on: