One interesting part of this K-Mart overhead music reel is that at 13:24 (and some other times) there are messages like "will security please report to section 3" despite that this is a single tape distributed to all stores https://archive.org/details/KmartDecember1974ReelToReel
you've heard of security theater, now get ready for security radio
@cwebber I have 100% spent a day listening to these tapes and have thought the same thing
@lmorchard @cwebber I guess I assumed the tape came *from* a store but now that I think about it I can't imagine why that would be a thing.
@cwebber Yeah, I remember checking it out when the link was going around some while back, and just for some reason made the leap from "an employee kept the tapes" to "an employee kept the tapes that... were taped off the sound system where the tapes were played?"
I clearly didn't put a lot of thought into it. 😆
@gamehawk @lmorchard It comes from a collection of tapes that an employee collected that were supposed to be played as overhead music. Here's a whole section: https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers