
“If that‘s all a little opaque to you, you can always subscribe to the second theory, in which the cofounder of Costco threatens to kill his own CEO over hot dog prices.
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“ “I came to Jim once and I said, ‘Jim, we can‘t sell this hot dog for a buck fifty. We are losing our rear ends,‘” he said. Sinegal, a billionaire, replied: ‘If you raise the effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out.‘”