$1.50 costco hot dog thread

[nicefish]

[Mozai]

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."

[rachel]

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

[rothen]

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

[Fishmé]

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