The home video game market boomed in 1983 with revenues of $3.2 billion, but by 1985, it had dropped to $100 million. Atari’s game based on ET the Extra-Terrestrial was a costly failure, resulting in millions of unsold cartridges dumped in a New Mexico landfill. In 2014, a documentary crew excavated the landfill and found […]
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by removing one black olive from inflight salads. CEO Bob Crandall noticed passengers didn’t eat them and saw it as a cost-cutting opportunity. Eliminating a single black salad olive from inflight meals was the method American Airlines used to save thousands of dollars in 1987. This cost-cutting measure is […]
