INSPIRATIONAL: Costco cashier Tony Barzar is a millionaire by slow and steady hard work

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/he-earns-33-an-hour-as-a-costco-cashier-now-hes-a-millionaire-1e9ba725?st=6YknCt&mod=1440&user_id=66c4b9c55d78644b3a882a4d

He Earns $33 an Hour as a Costco Cashier. Now He’s a Millionaire.

  • Long-tenured workers like cashier Tony Barzar are reliable, experienced and able to speed shoppers through a checkout line. Costco is willing to pay to keep them around.

By Sarah Nassauer
July 8, 2026 7:00 pm ET

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TUCSON, Ariz.—Costco cashier Tony Barzar unloaded his lunch in the breakroom, clocked in and headed for the checkout, just as he has for much of the past four decades.

That day, like most days, 60-year-old Barzar was assigned to the self-checkout area, a cluster of six registers. At 9:02 a.m., the first shoppers were ready to ring themselves up.

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Not glamorous, not “big bucks”, but slow and steady wins the race.

A certainly no reason for ¾ of a million in student loan debt.

Maybe the zoomers need to adjust their expectations?

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INNOVATION: The $255 Beach Shade Dividing America’s Coastal Towns – WSJ

Saturday, June 13, 2026

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/shibumi-beach-sun-shade-04770fba?st=iSp81z

The $255 Beach Shade Dividing America’s Coastal Towns

  • Some beachgoers love Shibumis for their simplicity and safety. Others consider them a nuisance, and some places have banned them.

By Fred A. Bernstein
Updated May 25, 2026 5:36 pm ET

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Invented by a trio of recent UNC-Chapel Hill graduates, Shibumis are practically an obsession in the Carolinas. Owners say they are easy to carry and set up and are safer than umbrellas, which can cause injuries or death when the wind uproots them. The company says it has sold about 500,000 Shibumis, many of them in the Carolinas.

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​Ahhh, American inventiveness and stogy Gooferment bureaucrats can’t deal with it.

I wonder how the family of that lady who was killed by flying umbrella feels.

I guess no one has thought about the wheel chair accessible ramp at Island Beach State Park in Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee that provide an easy to walk “avenue” down to the water.

Would seem possible to create a “checkerboard” of “Avenues” and “Cross Streets” with what3words “addresses” that would begin order out of haphazard deployment.

Life Guards could align their “lanes” for speedy rescues without being delayed by random squatters.

In a truly little L libertarian world, an entrepreneur would own a beach and “rent” out spots. And competition would ensure that all options were available.

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