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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The CEO of Japan Airlines makes $90,000 a year, less than the pilots. During an interview, he said "We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics."
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7.6 million Christmas trees are sold each year.
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The first McDonald’s drive-thru was opened near a military base in Arizona “to serve soldiers who weren’t permitted to get out of their cars while wearing fatigues.”
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There's a company in China that allows you to hire someone to stand in line for you for $3-$5 an hour.
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Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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Starbucks uses round tables to make solo coffee drinkers feel less alone.
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