American stores get rid of the homeless in a strange "artistic" way

An American convenience store chain called 7 Eleven has started a bizarre tactic to keep vagabonds away, using opera music and classical pieces by Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven that seem to not appeal to this audience.

"The goal is to deter homeless individuals from being here and harassing customers," Fox News quoted a Texas branch owner as saying.

One store owner, Jagat Patil, confirmed that no one from the Austin Police Department turned up despite store officials receiving multiple complaints of noise from classical tunes.

"In particular, many of my young clients and clients are afraid to come here, because there are people constantly loitering in the parking lot asking for money," Patel explains.

Patel started playing music about 10 days ago and other shopkeepers across the country have started doing the same.

“Classical music is annoying,” Patel says.

Opera is annoying, and I suppose that's true because it works.'

As he put it, he and other neighboring companies noticed a difference from the past, as he says.

And he justified this again by saying, "It helps, it does not bother us because it does not bother us, but it may bother them because they take drugs."

But others make no secret of their displeasure with the loud and noisy music the store broadcasts, as Frederick Carter, who lives next door, says, "This music is not very good, it is loud, it is unpleasant to me, I don't like it, you can hear it far away, it is very noisy."

And Carter believes that the solution lies in the polite request, "I think, just talk to them, and tell them not to hang around, or not to live (here), whatever, I think that is the best solution."

Stores broadcast pieces by Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, in addition to opera pieces.

In turn, the owner of a store in California says that in this musical noise it is difficult to “hang around, gossip and joke.”

"As soon as the music started, the mob left," he concluded.

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