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http://www.businessinsider.com/stree...street-2011-10

From news article:
Occupy Wall Street protesters are steering a ton of business away from a portion of the 99% they say they're representing. Namely, the small businesses who operate in the Financial District.

“Let them leave soon,” Abderrahim Marhraoui, the owner of a Halal food cart since 2003, told the Wall Street Journal. He said sales are down as much as 80% and he may return home to Morocco if sales don't pick up soon. Other vendors estimated a 30 - 40% decrease in sales in the past three weeks.

Stacey Tzortzatos, owner and manager of Panini & Co. Breads, says she can't even pay her expenses. “My regular Wall Street suit-and-tie people don’t want to come,” she told the Journal.

Instead, she's invested $200 in a new lock for her restroom, and is handling flooding from overflowing toilets because so many protesters have been using the Panini & Co. restroom.

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