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As far as the other local businesses being affected, it's simple. If you have a workforce of roughly 2,000 people in an area each day, they are a potential customer base. If you eliminate their jobs, and they no longer visit the area where they were employed on a daily basis, that's 2,000 potential customers lost. For a small mom-and-pop business, even a loss in 5 customers a day can be difficult to overcome in this tough economy. At 5 customers a day, that's 25 for the normal business week. Say each person spends $10, that's $250 a week or $1,000 a month. That is a large loss for a small business, which is what the majority of businesses in Marcus Hook and Trainer actually are.
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