
They also obtained the names of more than 2,000 Atlantic customers.

Jewell traded severance pay for shelving, inventory and the store's POS system. "We had been dreaming about this for years." The pair have moved quickly. "The day we were told by our bosses, we knew had to start making plans," Shane told the paper. In another case of former Atlantic Books employees setting up shop in the wake of the mid-Atlantic chain's collapse late last year, Ginny Jewell and Marie Shane, former general manager and assistant manager at the Atlantic Books store in Dover, Del., are opening Acorn Books in August, according to the Dover News Journal.
