Title: Re: $1.50 costco hot dog thread
Post by: Mozai on December 08, 2024, 06:06:45 am
Costco used to buy kosher beef, but now has their own wiener factory just for making these hotdogs.
In a Seattle Times interview in 2009, Jim Sinegal (founder of Costco) was asked about the $1.50 price for the hotdog. "What would it take to raise the price of the hotdog?" "That would mean I'm dead."
Craig Jelinek, Sinegal's replacement, said in a 2018 interview he lamented to Sinegal that they can't keep doing the $1.50 hot dogs -- which should cost $4.40 nowadays with inflation. Sinegal said to him "if you raise the fucking hot dog, I will kill you; figure it out."
Title: Re: $1.50 costco hot dog thread
Post by: rachel on December 08, 2024, 08:33:28 pm
Costco used to buy kosher beef, but now has their own wiener factory just for making these hotdogs.
In a Seattle Times interview in 2009, Jim Sinegal (founder of Costco) was asked about the $1.50 price for the hotdog. "What would it take to raise the price of the hotdog?" "That would mean I'm dead."
Craig Jelinek, Sinegal's replacement, said in a 2018 interview he lamented to Sinegal that they can't keep doing the $1.50 hot dogs -- which should cost $4.40 nowadays with inflation. Sinegal said to him "if you raise the fucking hot dog, I will kill you; figure it out."
Wow that's dedication to the hotdog.
It sounds like costco hotdogs are the ultimate stablecoin
Title: Re: $1.50 costco hot dog thread
Post by: rothen on December 08, 2024, 10:12:29 pm
Costco used to buy kosher beef, but now has their own wiener factory just for making these hotdogs.
In a Seattle Times interview in 2009, Jim Sinegal (founder of Costco) was asked about the $1.50 price for the hotdog. "What would it take to raise the price of the hotdog?" "That would mean I'm dead."
Craig Jelinek, Sinegal's replacement, said in a 2018 interview he lamented to Sinegal that they can't keep doing the $1.50 hot dogs -- which should cost $4.40 nowadays with inflation. Sinegal said to him "if you raise the fucking hot dog, I will kill you; figure it out."
Wow that's dedication to the hotdog.
It sounds like costco hotdogs are the ultimate stablecoin
s/stablecoin/loss leader
Title: Re: $1.50 costco hot dog thread
Post by: Fishmé on January 03, 2025, 03:23:15 pm