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Eric Dorner

Eric Dorner

@edorner86

Dad // Working capital provider // struggling Chicago sports fan

Chicago, IL. Katılım Mart 2014
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia@NostalgiaFolder·
Name the game
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Robert Murray
Robert Murray@ByRobertMurray·
Source: The Chicago White Sox are non-tendering first baseman/outfielder Gavin Sheets.
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Eric Dorner
Eric Dorner@edorner86·
@nWi_Steve There are very few things in life that are certain - death, taxes, and a White Sox loss. So I bet against them most games, and that makes me happy
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Jay Cuda
Jay Cuda@JayCuda·
the white sox today became the 2nd team in baseball history to have 0 runs 0 walks 0 extra base hits & 10+ strikeouts on opening day the only other time it happened was the giants facing perhaps the best pitcher ever, hall of famer bob gibson, on opening day 1967
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Jon Morosi
Jon Morosi@jonmorosi·
Source: Drew Thorpe and Jairo Iriarte heading to the White Sox in the Dylan Cease trade. @MLBNetwork
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Bob Nightengale
Bob Nightengale@BNightengale·
New Chicago #WhiteSox GM Chris Getz has quietly made a slew of shrewd hires for his front office: Josh Barfield (leaving the #Dbacks) Brian Bannister (leaving the #SFGiants) Gene Watson (leaving the #Royals)
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Eric Dorner
Eric Dorner@edorner86·
@BNightengale This just in: Reinsdorf / White Sox are NOT interested as they plan to *checks notes* … contend in ‘24. I hate it here
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Bob Nightengale
Bob Nightengale@BNightengale·
Just in case Orix Buffaloes ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto's value could go skyrocket any higher, he just threw the second no-hitter of his career, the 100th in Japanese pro baseball history. Yamamoto, 25, is expected to be posted this winter and become one of the premium free agents.
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Eric Dorner
Eric Dorner@edorner86·
@barstoolWSD Remember how upset we’d get that Ricky would bench players for not running hard to first base?
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whitesoxdave
whitesoxdave@barstoolWSD·
Is anybody on earth surprised about the Middleton quotes?
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Patrick Nolan
Patrick Nolan@SoxMach_pnoles·
The #WhiteSox traded one guy today and it was one under team control through 2028
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CHGO White Sox
CHGO White Sox@CHGO_WhiteSox·
Favorite memory of the 1st half?
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Eric Dorner
Eric Dorner@edorner86·
Love Costco. Shout out to the $10 pizzas, too!
Trung Phan@TrungTPhan

The Costco hot dog combo is a legendary meme. But how does it still only cost $1.50? Introduced in 1985, the price of that combo should be ~$4.20 if adjusted for inflation. Thankfully, the $216B warehouse retailer has done everything in its power to keep the price down. And Costco sells A LOT of them: 130m+ hot dogs a year (more than all MLB teams combined). Many believe the $1.50 combo is a “loss-leader” for Costco, but this is incorrect. In a 2009 interview, Costco co-founder and former CEO Jim Sinegal told the Seattle Times that Costco doesn’t “engage in loss leaders” and “the only time we sell below cost is when we’ve made a mistake and have to mark it down”. However, the retailer does cap its margin at 14% and drives many products to near break-even. Here’s how Costco has managed to keep the cost of the inconic hot dog combo at $1.50: 1️⃣It dropped leading hot dog suppliers like Hebrew National and Nathan’s because they wouldn’t lower prices 2️⃣In 2009, Costco built its own hot dog manufacturing plant in LA (and has a second one in Chicago) 3️⃣ It got better pricing on buns, ketchup and mustard 4️⃣ It removed onions and sauerkrauts as free condiments 5️⃣ It dropped Polish sausages 6️⃣ The pop that came with the combo was swapped from a can to refillable fountain soda Costco’s effort to keep hot dog prices low is also the source material for the greatest quote in business history. In 2018, the current Costco CEO Craig Jelinek was recounting a conversation he had with Sinegal, who he just replaced as CEO. Jelinek told Sinegal he wanted to raise the price of the $1.50 hot dog and pop combo. Sinegal shot back, “If you raise the [price of the] f**ing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out.” Costco has figured it out and, in September 2022, the company’s CFO Richard Galanti confirmed that the hot dog combo would remain at $1.50 despite rising inflation. “There are some businesses that are doing well with margin like gas business on a smaller way -- in the travel business,” said Galanti. “Those things help us be more aggressive in other areas, or as you mentioned, hold the price on the hot dog and the soda a little longer, forever.” Forever sounds about right.

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