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“With more and more hotels, restaurants, and retailers adopting music as a branding device, T+L sounds off on how their choices speak volumes…. Some people are irked by bad lighting, excessive AC, the reek of European men’s cologne. I’m hopelessly particular about music. Background sound tracks can make or break my impression of a place—and these days every place has one, from wine bars to Williams-Sonoma. Too often it’s employed with alarming incompetence.”


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