Costco Sees Value in Higher Pay – “We pay better than the supermarkets, and we pay much better than Wal-Mart,” Sinegal says. “That’s not altruism,” he continues. “It’s good business.” The numbers seem to back him up. Costco’s labor costs amount to 7% of its $42 billion in annual sales, a key industry yardstick. By ...
Same-Sex Marriage – Can someone please explain to me why same-sex marriage is a bad thing? Seriously, please explain to me why a man and a man or a woman and a woman should not be able to marry. I will add only one qualifier, if you say that it is wrong because the Bible ...
Unison is a new Mac OS X Usenet reader by Panic Software, the same people who produced the Transmit FTP client. It’s probably the slickest Usenet client I’ve used in a while, though being a 1.0 level product it has some features that are missing. h4. Image Browsing The best feature in Panic is by ...
The Register – Gateway has said it will buy low-cost PC maker eMachines in a bid to boost its market share around the world and in the US market in particular. [ The Register ] The most amazing quote in the article for me was: bq. Gateway hopes that the cost savings it expects to ...
Professor Popsicle – A researcher known as “Professor Popsicle” has found humans can successfully spend days on end in the bitter cold. Gordon Giesbrecht has spent the past 26 days skiing the isolated, frozen expanse of Lake Winnipeg as part of his research for the University of Manitoba on how the body copes with the ...
Costco: Good Pay = Good Business
Feb
16
2004
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