MS residents are most nostalgic for these 5 iconic retail brands, survey says. Do you agree?
Several once-iconic retail brands have closed over the years as shopping became faster, more convenient and increasingly online.
But many Mississippians remember the days they’d walk into a store as part of daily life, and they miss it.
“Many of these stores turned everyday errands into actual experiences,” Matt Paulson, MarketBeat founder, said in a May 12 news release. “As retail has become faster and more transactional, that sense of occasion has started to disappear, and people are realizing they miss it.”
MarketBeat, a financial media company, asked Mississippians which retail chains they were most nostalgic about
Here’s what they said.
Which brands are Mississippians most nostalgic about?
These are the top five brands people in Mississippi miss, according to MarketBeat:
1. Blockbuster, a home movie and video game rental store that closed its company-owned stores in 2014.
2. Woolworth, a department store with a lunch counter that closed its U.S. stores in 1997.
3. Waldenbooks, an American shopping mall-based bookstore chain that went out of business in 2011.
4. Hollywood Video, a home movie rental store that closed its stores in 2010.
5. Borders, a bookstore that closed its stores in 2011.
What is the most missed brand across the US?
Blockbuster is the brand Americans are most nostalgic about, the MarketBeat study found.
“It wasn’t really about films; it was about the ritual around them. The wandering, the indecision, the last copy panic,” MarketBeat analysts said.
How did financial media company conduct survey?
MarketBeat surveyed more than 3,000 Americans ages 45 and up in April to learn which defunct retail brands they wish were still around, analysts said.
