Longtime Poplar Avenue flower shop is for sale
Rachel’s Flower Shop designer Sherry Howell, left, works with Susan Leigh on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. Rachel’s, one of the oldest floral businesses in the city, will continue as a concierge florist at the end of the year. The building is for sale. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Rachel’s has been a fixture on Poplar Avenue since 1993 but it will close to walk-ins at the end of the year. The clothes closet, food pantry and storehouse of furniture in the florist’s back building — for people who were hungry, cold or moving into apartments with nothing — will close when the shop does.
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Jane Roberts
Longtime journalist Jane Roberts is a Minnesotan by birth and a Memphian by choice. She's lived and reported in the city more than two decades. She covers business news and features for The Daily Memphian.
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