Vending machine locations in Mississippi, by the numbers

What is on the record for Mississippi?

Six venues, five venue types, eight weeks.

All six are standard tier, meaning none reported the 100,000 annual visitors premium requires — Hattiesburg’s 85,000 is the closest any of them comes. Louisville is the only “food service” venue in the entire 87-placement record.

The share pattern, and why Mississippi is the exception

Mississippi’s six venues average 42.5% of net, which is the highest figure for any state with four or more placements stating a share.

Two things follow. Mississippi is the only state in that group with no placement below the median, and it is the only state anywhere holding a 45% agreement — the rarest share in the dataset, appearing once against 55 instances of 40%.

Where the strength-and-share relationship actually goes

Across the whole record the relationship is absent or inverted. Massachusetts holds the highest-exposure venue in the dataset, a Tyngsborough bowling alley at roughly 1,836 visitor-hours, and it agreed the record’s lowest share. Maryland’s Ocean City is the busiest indoor playground on record and took the median. Kentucky’s four venues all sit below their category medians and also took the median.

Mississippi runs the other way, at least internally.

The ordering is clean: the strongest measurable venue got the best measurable terms of the four, and the three below it got identical terms regardless of a twofold spread between them. Louisville breaks even that, with no traffic figure and the highest share in the state.

So the honest summary is narrow. Mississippi contains one case of venue strength and share moving together, which is one more than most states contain, and not enough to overturn a record where 55 of 87 placements landed on the same number whatever the traffic. What the revenue-share data shows across all 87 placements works through the full picture.

How complete is Mississippi’s record?

Better than the national rate on shares and slightly worse on traffic. All six Mississippi listings state a share, where six placements nationally state none. Four of six report a visitor count, against 69 of 87 nationally.

The two gaps are in the same places: Louisville and Clinton report no traffic, and they are also the two listings with no venue-type comparison available — “food service” appears once in the record, and Clinton’s bowling alley has no Mississippi sibling to sit beside. Converting Mississippi footfall into hours of exposure, the method behind our ranking of vending locations, therefore reaches four of six venues.

What is missing from Mississippi’s record?

The three largest cities, and the arcade category. Greenville, Oxford, Tupelo, Clinton, Louisville and Hattiesburg are a route through the state’s small and mid-sized towns; Jackson, Gulfport and Biloxi appear nowhere in it.

That is a different kind of gap from an empty state. Mississippi’s six listings show a locator working a secondary market thoroughly rather than a major market lightly, and the absence of Jackson says where the route went rather than what Jackson would agree to. Vending machine locations by state shows where every state stands.