San Diego: I was meeting with Sol Price. Price is a legendary retailer who founded Fed Mart and Price Clubs, which became the model for Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club, and the backbone of much of Costco when he sold them Price Clubs. He also turned out to be a just plain decent man who made the money …
Category: Personal Writings
One Night In Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam: It had been a long day in the city. I had run to the Indian Ocean at dawn, so that I could say that in one year I had run on both sides of that body of water with Mumbai, India on the east and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on the east. Even …
Busman’s Holiday
New Orleans: Just about every year my family takes a vacation before the kids have to go back to the rigors of school which is just about family life – or in union organizing what we call a “captive audience” meeting – in other words all of us in one place and space having to …