“Jim, we can’t [continue to] sell this hot dog for a buck fifty. We are losing our rear ends.” According to Jelinek, Sinegal replied, “If you raise [the price of] the effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out.”
If they ever raise the price then the humble Costco hot dog is going to be one of those things that serves as a legendary “economic indicator” up there with the stockbrokers jumping out of windows on black Tuesday.
“Jim, we can’t [continue to] sell this hot dog for a buck fifty. We are losing our rear ends.” According to Jelinek, Sinegal replied, “If you raise [the price of] the effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out.”
If they ever raise the price then the humble Costco hot dog is going to be one of those things that serves as a legendary “economic indicator” up there with the stockbrokers jumping out of windows on black Tuesday.