Like many businesses, Amoeba Music has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. With this in mind, a GoFundMe campaign has been launched to help the company out.
Amoeba co-founder Marc Weinsten told Variety the following:
“We are launching the GoFundMe campaign before everyone’s tapped out to try to give our fans a chance to help us here. There are still so many unanswered questions about where we’re going to end up. We’re really just trying to get to opening our new store on Hollywood Blvd. We have this cool new space and a plan to get in there.
But between now and then, we are trying to get whatever resources we can to help with the move and help us cover our staff. Every one of our staff is on unemployment now. We’re chipping in, in that we’re covering all their benefits, making sure everybody has health. But otherwise, everyone that works for us is on unemployment right now. Including me. [Laughs.]”
He also added the following when asked if the company’s mail order business has been helping them:
“Our mail order has been plenty busy, but not really enough to cover much of anything. It represents probably, at the most, 10% of our (usual) business in Hollywood, and less than that obviously for all three stores.”
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