Downtown’s Peanut Shoppe in a crunch to find new home
Rida AbuZaineh (right) tends to a customer in the shop that is 8 feet wide. (Tom Bailey/Daily Memphian)
The pandemic and dropping sales have challenged downtown’s Peanut Shoppe. But now the colorful shop that has operated in the same place for 72 years faces more adversity. It must move or close at the end of the year.
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Tom Bailey
Tom Bailey covers business news for The Daily Memphian. A Tupelo, Mississippi, native, he graduated from Mississippi State University. He's worked in journalism for 40 years and has lived in Midtown for 36 years.