diff --git a/pandas/core/arrays/string_.py b/pandas/core/arrays/string_.py
index 10b2a62828ddb..69e3be87b2b9b 100644
--- a/pandas/core/arrays/string_.py
+++ b/pandas/core/arrays/string_.py
@@ -899,16 +899,6 @@ def _accumulate(self, name: str, *, skipna: bool = True, **kwargs) -> StringArra
         ------
         NotImplementedError : subclass does not define accumulations
         """
-        if is_string_dtype(self):
-            return self._str_accumulate(name=name, skipna=skipna, **kwargs)
-        return super()._accumulate(name=name, skipna=skipna, **kwargs)
-
-    def _str_accumulate(
-        self, name: str, *, skipna: bool = True, **kwargs
-    ) -> StringArray:
-        """
-        Accumulate implementation for strings, see `_accumulate` docstring for details.
-        """
         if name == "cumprod":
             msg = f"operation '{name}' not supported for dtype '{self.dtype}'"
             raise TypeError(msg)
diff --git a/pandas/tests/groupby/test_categorical.py b/pandas/tests/groupby/test_categorical.py
index e050d475b744f..e49be8c00b426 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/groupby/test_categorical.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/groupby/test_categorical.py
@@ -358,6 +358,7 @@ def test_observed(request, using_infer_string, observed):
         expected = cartesian_product_for_groupers(
             expected, [cat1, cat2], list("AB"), fill_value=0
         )
+
     tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)