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Failure: The Blog 
May 2018
- This Doctor Has Continued To Fail
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness
- MIT Accidentally Creates New Smelting Process
April 2018
- Johnny Cash Quit Singing Lessons
- Cruise Control Came Out of Frustration
- Time Spent Gaming Pays Off In The Navy
- Rock Around The Clock Was a Commercial Failure
- Sigmund Freud Should Have Been Discouraged
March 2018
- Superman Couldn't Fly
- This School Shares Failures
- Jim Croce's Parents Hoped He Would Fail
- McDonald's Turns A Cheater Into A Winner
- Snake Eyes Was Made To Save Money
February 2018
- A Stolen Album Created Success
- The 1679 Habeas Corpus Act Passed Due To A Joke
- Changing The Print On A Box Saved Money
- George Washington Survived His Miserable Mother
- How Warehouse Stores Began
January 2018
- Reddit User Found Success Through Failure
- Remembering Famous Failures
- Mistake Or Genius Marketing?
- Waste From Our Eyes Lets Us See
- The Slinky Was Accidentally Created
December 2017
How Warehouse Stores Began
Have you ever considered where stores get their merchandise? Is there just a store out there that’s a store for, well, stores?
Robert Price spoke with hosts, Robert Smith and Jacob Goldstein, about this very idea in an NPR interview. He had opened a warehouse club store where other people could only shop if you owned a business. But the small businesses weren’t coming. So someone suggested allowing non-business owners to shop there, too.
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“And Price was afraid that it would alienate the business owners who were the true members of this club. And they he figured, you know, businesses aren’t really going for this anyway so let’s try it.”
Suddenly, their business was a success! One of their employees, Jim Cost, went on to start his own warehouse store. Thus, Costco was born! Sometimes, it means taking a risk to become successful!
