Instead of McDonald's tearing down a ~200-year-old Georgian mansion, citizens of a small NY town forced them to renovate it instead, resulting in a uniquely historic franchise location.
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Starbucks uses round tables to make solo coffee drinkers feel less alone.
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80% of Publishers' Clearing House $10 million winners did not purchase any magazine subscriptions!
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Blockbuster laughed at a Netflix partnership proposal in 2000.
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A full-time cashier at Costco makes about $49,000 annually. The average wage at Costco is nearly 20 dollars an hour and 89% of Costco employees are eligible for benefits.
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A Kodak engineer constructed the first digital camera in 1975. They didn't want to go digital. They went bankrupt in 2012.
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