Customers Pitch In To Save Business Almost Ruined By Ill-Advised Groupon Deal

Since Groupon launched, we've written a handful of stories about businesses — like the bakery that claimed $19,500 in losses and the cafe owner who called it the "single worst decision" she'd ever made — that said they took on huge amounts of red ink when they were overwhelmed by bargain-hunting shoppers who only wanted the discount. Well, here's a story that's slightly different, in that the shop's regular customers have come to the rescue to save the sinking business.

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