The Candy Man Can: Downtown’s candy shop sees Halloween sugar rush
Wayne’s Candy Co. employee James Goodwin (left) works with customer Nina Allen-Johnson (right) as she picks out treats on Friday, Oct. 27. Many Memphians choose to stock up on Halloween sweets at this local shop. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Wayne’s Candy Co. was founded back in 1947 and sells a variety of candies. “Where else can you pick up cases of jumbo Kit Kats and Hershey bars along with a fishbowl of Lemonheads and foot-long Pixy Stix?”
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Aisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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