Bennie’s Seafood, a US 29 enterprise in Madison Heights, currently launched that it will shut on the end of 2022, the yr of the enterprise’s fortieth anniversary.

Jeanie Shelton, supervisor and daughter of the late enterprise founder Ben “Benny” Taylor Dryden Sr., talked about in a video message on the enterprise’s official Fb internet web page that the lot the store is on has been provided. Shelton talked about December 31 was the ultimate day for Benny’s Seafood on the situation between Sheets and Walmart.

Benny Dryden, who handed away in October 2018, was born throughout the Hamptons and raised as a toddler who beloved seafood and water. He was typically generally known as “Fishman” and operated in Lynchburg sooner than opening his Madison Heights retailer.

In an earlier interview with New Interval-Progress, Jeannie Shelton recalled that her father provided merchandise from automobiles and organize retailer at a bunch market in downtown Lynchburg to advertise merchandise. This enterprise choices modern seafood handpicked from the east coast or shipped modern from the saltwater.

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In a video put up, Jeanie Shelton talked about the enterprise is considering working in numerous strategies.

“This is not the highest of us. I’m not going to make it the highest of us,” she talked about.

She appreciated the store’s shoppers, whom she had recognized since she was a toddler, and who’ve been like family.

Retailer staff labored onerous over the holidays to confirm shoppers obtained their oysters on Christmas morning, she talked about. confirmed a viewpoint.

“Probably will most likely be a change for the upper for us,” Jeannie Shelton talked about.

To adjust to our enterprise, go to Bennie’s Seafood and Oyster Dwelling Fb internet web page.

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