As a store owner I miss
1) Being able to buy an item just to show the customer, and see if that's the one he wanted - and if it was wrong, being able to sell it back for 100% of the price.
It's difficult now they are worth 0 as soon as they are bought.
"I would like the brown bed... The one that looks like mahogany... Not the most expensive one..." and so on
2) In a way I miss having 3 customers at the same time yelling about 20 easels, and stuff like that... It was a lot of action back then. But it was pretty stressful too.
I prefer CC to be honest.
3) I miss the Radio parties.
Back then we booked ourselves in a schedule at the radio station and it was an instant party when the radio people came over.
Now the radios just seem to wander around town and nobody even tunes in sometimes.
4) My friends I had back then
But overall I'm happier with the way things are now, than how they were a few years ago. Everything is improving so much now.
I absolutely do not miss calling out a number for every jam. It wasn't fun and if you got error you weren't sure what would happen, you got treated like some sort of beggar by the owners... Nah that I can live without.