Hi Fergie3672,
It may have been a blessing in disguise that they don’t carry the same mattress any longer since I would tend to avoid the major brands or any mattress where you can’t confirm the quality/durability of the materials inside it (see the guidelines here). You would most likely have had the same issue again because of the lower quality and less durable materials in your mattress.
Like many of the members that have come here you are in a somewhat difficult position when you need to exchange a mattress and are “locked in” to a store that sells many mattresses that I would normally suggest avoiding but you are more fortunate than most because Jordans lists the quality/density of all the materials in their mattresses so in addition to testing for PPP (hopefully using the testing guidelines in the mattress shopping tutorial) to make sure that a mattress is a suitable “match” for you in terms of PPP (Posture and alignment, Pressure relief, and Personal preferences) you will also be able to check the materials and compare them to the guidelines here to make sure that you are also making a durable choice and that the mattress you choose doesn’t have any weak links in its design.
The type of materials or mattress (memory foam, latex, innerspring etc) is a preference choice not a “better/worse” choice but no matter which type of mattress your testing or experience indicates that you tend to prefer I would always make sure that you confirm that there aren’t any lower quality materials or “weak links” in the mattress.
There is more about the most important parts of the “value” of a mattress in post #13 here that can also help you to make more meaningful comparisons between mattresses.
I would probably focus on the Jordans brand because some of them would certainly be worth considering but I would always make sure that you check any mattress you are considering on a “mattress by mattress” basis to make sure that they don’t have any weak links. Other brands that they carry that also use good quality materials include Naturepedic and Prana and Tempurpedic but these are all in higher budget ranges than you may be comfortable with. With the exception of the Destiny Gold which uses 2.5 lb memory foam which is lower than I would consider … the Sealy Optimum line is “on the edge” in terms of the quality of the materials that I would consider but they aren’t in a particularly good value range compared to other mattresses that use the same or better quality materials and are in lower budget ranges.
Phoenix