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“I woke up this morning with a strange feeling,” said Amoeba Records product manager Tony Green.

“I realized it was job security. We’ve been incredibly surprised by the level of support and business.”
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It wasn't always that way.

A year ago, Amoeba Music was in trouble.
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Amid the shutdown of retail, the in-person transactions Amoeba heavily relied upon came to a standstill, and its once lively aisles filled with record enthusiasts digging through the bins and seeking out their latest auditory treasure grew eerily silent. 
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It wasn’t until late January, when San Francisco lifted the order and entered the purple tier of the state’s reopening plan, that the Amoeba Music on Haight Street experienced what Green called “a 180-degree turnaround.”
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Though Amoeba had to reduce its operation to four days a week, the store found itself struggling to keep up with the surge in business, even with the return of most of its staff.
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The store has been continually making more in those four days of business than it previously had during a typical week in 2019, prior to the pandemic. 

One thing is clear: San Francisco's largest record store is still in high demand:
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