Cash Mob spends $2,800 in local bookstore

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READY, MARCH, SPEND — A crowd of 135 people hold up their $20 bills, top, that they were ready to spend at Books N Things on Main Street in Norway during the area's very first Cash Mob on July 19. The crowd formed in the parking lot behind Fare Share Market, where Michael Newsom, president of W.J. Wheeler, sponsor of the cash mob, announced that Norway's Cash Mob had the best turnout in the state yet.  Participants march toward Books N Things, center, then wait patiently to get into the store, bottom. The store sold $2,800 in merchandise in about an hour-and-a-half. At the store's checkout, attendees were given a voucher to participate in the "after-mob" (sponsored by Oxford Federal Credit Union) at Ari's Pizza & Subs, which did about $400 in sales.