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Article: Shop serves as community's conduit to book world, writers: book store is outgrowth of Tupelo mainstay--Reed's Department Store.(Book Business)(bookstores)
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- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- August 8, 2005
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TUPELO -- The Reed family name is synonymous with quality retailing and community service. It's something they've been doing for 100 years at their downtown department store. In 1985 they added a bookstore to the merchandising mix when Reed's Gum Tree Bookstore came into being.
"We thought it would be a nice complement to our gift shop and to our flagship store and the downtown area," says Jack Reed Jr. "Our family loves books, and several of us were English majors."
The name was chosen to honor the native gum trees that dot the area and the Natchez Trace. Reed says it's a way to tie in with the local area and the annual Gum Tree Festival.
The ...