The Peanut Shop Of Savannah — Local services in Savannah

I have enjoyed bringing the kids in to sample and purchase peanuts for the last three years and I've been there off and on for five years. Its always been a nice place with every flavor peanut a person could wish for I hope to continue visiting and buying assorted cans of nuts in the future. The kids and i stopped in late last march 2016 and had the worst experience we've ever had in any store in our lives. We had stepped in and tasted a few different flavors, I and a couple of the kids had picked out a few cans and we were still shopping for more. An elderly gentleman started screaming to himself and at all of us. Saying the kids had tasted his peanuts. He started grabbing every one of his open cans and putting them up as he informed me they expected parents to control there children. I informed him the children were not doing anything wrong. They were standing with me, sampling and picking out cans to purchase. He kept screaming as he took all the spoons out of the sample cans and putting them up when ordering us to leave. The kids are good kids. Only tasting one or two nuts of different flavors. They were not making a meal of them. We started putting the cans we were purchasing back and he said we could still buy them but buy them and get out. I made the kids put them back and we left. We've purchased a lot of cans.in the past and hope to in the future. But not as Long as he works...

This place was nuts! OK, that was a bad joke. But really, just as the world has bean people (black, red, lima) there are nut people. I, fortunately, happen to be a bean and nut person. In this case there was not an entire retail store devoted to the bean, it was the nut. There, on the River Street strip was The Peanut Shop and all of its retail glory. Cans of cans were merchandised on shelves and tables with tiny wooden spoons to scoop and taste: milk chocolate cashews, sea salt and cracked pepper, Thai fried chili lime peanuts, dill pickle nuts, Crab Town nuts with Chesapeake Bay seasoning, bacon and cheddar nuts. You name it this store had flavor! The staff was quiet and standoffish, leaving us to tour, guide, explore and sample alone. However, I would not have minded their opinions and suggestions. There were great novelty items that were not peanuts: bacon flavored chap stick, doormats that teased about the people inside being nuts, and what I left with (of course) Southern Shores Specialties Bloody Mary mix with Chesapeake Bay seasoning.

P.S. Don’t read that last bit GK Lofland—that’s your...

This is a GREAT store in terms of the cute/funny/unusual things you can find there. The problem is...you better not try to take a picture in there of the cute/funny/unusual things they carry to share with friends and maybe even post on social media about the cool things in the store (free advertising....)....because if you do, out of nowhere will appear a store employee who will yell at you that "NO PICTURES ARE ALLOWED!!!!!!!!!" so loudly that you may jump and startle and you'll consequently not only lose the cool downtown Savannah shopping vibe, but you may need to go down to Spanky's for a cocktail to relax. I didn't notice a sign that said no photography, but taking a picture of that candle was evidently a BIG no -no. I found where I can buy that (*$25 candle) online, or at another store in Pooler. Yeah, I'll do that instead. They will not have to worry about me taking a picture...or darkening...