“Am I getting older or has the supermarket begun playing great music”
“Am I getting older or is the supermarket playing great music” is humorous saying that has been printed on many images. Supermarket music is aimed to please its customers—usually parents, and often baby-boomers.
“Am I getting older or is the supermarket playing great music?” was posted on the newsgroup alt.humor.jewish on May 19, 2016. “Seen on a T-shirt: Am I Getting Older Or Has The Supermarket Begun Playing Great Music?” was printed in the St. Petersburg (FL) Times on August 10, 2009.
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Renee
5/19/06
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My old boss, spelled backwards . . . double s.o.b.
Am I getting older or is the supermarket playing great music?
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Michael Rubinsky
11/9/06
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“Am I getting old, or has the supermarket been playing great music lately?”
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Valerie Rausch
@ValerieGalerie
Am I getting old or is the supermarket playing great music?
11:04 AM · Apr 29, 2008·Twitter Web Client
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Ellen Daehnick
@edaehnick
Tshirt at starbucks earlier: Am I getting older or is the supermarket playing great music?”
10:10 AM · Aug 6, 2008·Twitter SMS
Newspapers.com
10 August 2009, St. Petersburg (FL) Times, “Decades-old act of common decency still resonates” by Ernest Hooper, pg. 1B, col. 4:
Seen on a T-shirt: Am I Getting Older Or Has The Supermarket Begun Playing Great Music?
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Daniel Witten
@DanWitten
Am I getting older or has the supermarket begun playing great music?
10:16 PM · Nov 1, 2010·Twitter Web Client
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Foxgloves, Fancy Fungus, and Fatal Family Feuds
By J L Wilson
Adams Basin, NY: The Wild Rose Press
2011
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I was in jeans and my Am I getting older or is the supermarket playing great music? sweatshirt with the left arm cut off.
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Bill Hammond
@ka1ssr
Am I getting older or has the supermarket begun playing great music?
2:21 PM · Apr 5, 2012·Twitter for Android
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Yess McNiel
@tiiks
Am I getting older or has the supermarket begun playing great music?
12:52 PM · Apr 6, 2012 from Texas, USA·Twitter for iPhone
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Lauren Pearson
@laurenm_pearson
Am I getting old or is the supermarket playing great music these days? #thirtysomething
11:54 PM - Mar 16, 2015
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Foghat
May 7, 2016 ·
😎Is the supermarket playing great music? Thanks for the post, Dustin. Funny.
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Akron (OH) Beacon Journal
Cart full of soul: A year in the life of a music-loving Akron grocery shopper
By Joe Thomas
Beacon Journal deputy metro editor
Posted Feb 1, 2020 at 12:01 AM
Updated Feb 3, 2020 at 12:32 AM
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So this quest would help to determine my reply to a meme that makes the rounds on social media every few months: “Am I getting old, or is the supermarket playing great music?”
Turns out that I am getting old — and the supermarket is playing a lot of great music.