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 ...
p. Why I Love the Adopt-a-Reporter Scheme. Why I Dread It. – A weblog devoted to watching the work of a journalist is democracy in action. It is bound to be educational, for the watcher and perhaps for the journalist who is watched. But there are reasons to worry. [ “(extlink)PressThink”:http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/ ] p. Joy Rosen ...
OnStar Considered Harmful – “A few weeks ago Slashdot ran an article on the privacy issues in EzPass. Some of the comments referred to other things Big Brother could do with GPS in cars, and now the New York Times has run a column on what else your car is saying about you (free registration ...
Michael Crichton has posted an essay about what he feels is the greatest threat in our time: The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the ...
In Cem Kaner’s blog: Software Customer Bill of Rights Cem Kaner discusses issues related to increasingly restrictive end user licensing agreements for various software, and how they are diverging from commonly accepted fair use rights for both software and other copyrighted works. Finally, he addresses issues of embedded software in items like automobiles, medical devices, ...
Costco: Good Pay = Good Business
Feb
16
2004
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