Costco’s hotdog is famous, and not just for the taste. It’s that juicy $1.50 price that’s remained unchanged since the 1980s. Although it’s a beloved product, there are many more strategies that Costco (COST) employs to turn people into diehard fans. Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell is a self-proclaimed fan, telling Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian […]
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The hot-dog seller who became a crazed warlord – and nearly overthrew Putin
One day in 1990, a bullnecked ex-con stepped out of Russia’s prison colony AN-24/34, wearing a dated Soviet suit that showed he’d been locked up for quite some time. Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin, a street hood and mugger, had just done 13 years for robbery, and had little going for him except a prison-issue train-ticket home […]