The Park Slope Community Bookstore Cash Mob was Just "Meh"

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Cash Mob (noun), as smugly defined by the Wall Street Journal:  "Part of a national movement that has shoppers descending en masse on designated local stores, where they show their support by spending lots of money. Afterward, they go out for a drink."  

It may come as no surprise that one of these puppies recently hit Park Slope. After all, our neighborhood is chock-full of money and mom & pop stores. A combination of Cash Mob Facebook posts and Tweets recently led to a gathering of guerilla shoppers at the Tea Lounge, where local CM leader Amy Cortese gave the order to storm the Park Slope Community Bookstore. The whole thing kinda went over like a limp dick. 

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