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Sol Price: Retail Revolutionary and Social Innovator

Robert E. Price

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Summary

Robert E. Price recounts his father’s work in discount retailing, from FedMart to Price Club and the later Costco merger. Jim Sinegal’s foreword links the model to operating efficiency, customer savings, employee pay and supplier relations. The contents also follow Sol Price’s later community work.

  • SourceSol Price: Retail Revolutionary and Social Innovator — primary content source · Contents printed p. iii; foreword pp. viii–ix: operating efficiency, merchandising, supplier/employee treatment and Robert Price’s operating discipline

Why read it Our view

Study how low costs, customer value and treatment of staff and suppliers form one retail model. Sinegal’s foreword also distinguishes a new concept from the operating discipline needed to make it work.

Written about

  • Jim SinegalForeword author and company-history participant
    The original 2012 book credits Sinegal’s foreword. He discusses the operating principles learned from Sol Price and later applied at Costco; this is participation and testimony, not a reading recommendation.
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  • Sol PriceBiography subject; written by his son and business partner
    Robert E. Price recounts his father’s retail and community work. Jim Sinegal’s foreword gives a firsthand view of the operating model. Reuses the existing 2012 San Diego History Center record; this is not a personal reading recommendation.
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