Voluntary Contribution Mechanism

Companies have done a lot of work to optimize music in retail shops to encourage customers to buy more stuff -- think of the smooth, just-quirky-enough tunes quietly playing at any given Starbucks, or whatever sonic garbage the Abercrombie store at the mall is always blasting when you walk by.

Companies have done a lot of work to optimize music in retail shops to encourage customers to buy more stuff -- think of the smooth, just-quirky-enough tunes quietly playing at any given Starbucks, or whatever sonic garbage the Abercrombie store at the mall is always blasting when you walk by.