A half-century of San Diego stories from the ReaderIllustration by Margarita Chastikova, Getty ImagesSo much of identity is memory. There’s experience; maybe we chase it, maybe it just washes over us. But memory is what …
October 12, 2022
All through 1976, while the FedMart founder and his son were setting up the Price Club, and on through 1977, suits and countersuits were producing motion after motion in both state and federal courts.
Posted April 1, 1982
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SD Characters: Sol Price, pioneer of Costco; Larry Lawrence, one of America's richest
Larry Lawrence and the Greening of American Politics Much of the San Diego money that went into the Clinton campaign’s coffers was collected May 17 at a $1000-per-person party for Clinton at the Coronado home …
July 23, 2016
Mean Business: Sol Price and the FedMart story
Later that same year, having lost his fear of flying. Price crossed the Atlantic and landed in Karlsruhe, Germany, to discuss with Hugo Mann, retail marketing baron, one such way of going private.
April 1, 1982