A bookstore owner needed emergency surgery, so employees at other stores worked for free to keep the shop open

Seth Marko and his wife, Jennifer Powell, opened The Book Catapult about a year and a half ago in San Diego. Powell manages the store and Marko buys the books and also has a full-time job as a sales representative for a publishing company.Last month, Marko had emergency open heart surgery and spent 11 days in the hospital.Hundreds form human chain to move their local bookstoreHe's doing well now, but he obviously couldn't work.

offered to work, so I realized this would be easy," he said. Word got around and before long, Ehrig-Burgess said, booksellers were reaching out to him and offering to help.He rounded up eight booksellers from five stores, a former bookseller and a friend to run the shop. Powell's father also helped out.Lin-Manuel Miranda opening an NYC bookstoreEhrig-Burgess still had the key to The Book Catapult from when he worked there, so he handled training and scheduling on top of his other job.

CNN reports that owners of 5 California bookstores stepped in to help a competing store stay open when its owners faced a medical emergency. This proves that California bookstore owners are stand-up people with the spine to turn the page on competition and binder with others.

This is why we don’t need big government. We can take care of ourselves

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It’s just a matter of time when Amazon will crush them like a bug. In my day it was Walmart doing the crushing of local mom and pop stores.

This is America. People helping others in their time of need.

. California, this our future. SenFeinstein are you watching? KamalaHarris are you listening? SpeakerPelosi do you care? GavinNewsom will you act? My heart goes to people of the yellow vests.

Damn y’all have nice neighbors. Not here In Albuquerque. Our neighbors rob each other..... 🤦🏽‍♂️

BryndenBFish Is this you? Didn't know you owned a book store.

I call that, teamwork.

If they owning book stores in these times they gone always face a medical emergency!

They will all close sooner rather than later though.

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