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26th August 2016
12:22pm BST

“I just came in and walked in the door and saw this old guy sitting there in a chair. There wasn’t another soul in the place. He said he hasn’t been able to pay himself, and the last few months have been the worst he’s ever been through” Colin told Buzzfeed CanadaColin, who has a background in marketing, offered to help the chip shop owner with some publicity.
“He just kind of sloughed me off and I hemmed and hawed about it and I thought, ‘I’ll make a nice social media post for him.”And that is just what he did. The post garnered over 8 thousand shares and counting, and people have since been flocking to Whitbie’s. On Tuesday, more than 400 people visited the establishment and then on Wednesday almost 500 people stopped by.
Whitbie’s is now busier than it has been in 7 years. The owner, had this to day
“He did it out of the goodness of his heart and Lethbridge came and did it out of the goodness of their hearts”
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