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Do you enjoy listening to piped-in pop music while you shop at your local mall According to a recent experiment conducted by Hammerson, a company that owns a number of shopping malls in the U.K., you may be in the minority.Late last month, the BBC dispatched media correspondent David Sillito to the Bullring shopping center in Birmingham to monitor the effects of the experiment that Hammerson was running there 鈥斅爋ne that was being carried out at a number of its retail properties.At one end of the mall Zone 1 , the company had set up large speakers blaring pop music 鈥斅燼 common practice in shopping malls worldwide. At the
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