Odd Facts about Modern-Day Commercial Enterprises

• Warren Buffet started out quite young at business. He was only 14 when he bought a 40-acre farm with money that he made by peddling bottles of soda and magazines from home to home.
  
  
• If you are a tourist at Niagara Falls, watch out! It’s common practice for businesses there to put a TIF charge on top of any regular fee. With an annual profit of about $15 million, it’s a racket that seems to have no reason behind it. The simple way out, however, is to request the surcharge removal from your total bill.
  
  
• There are companies, such as Nike and Google, who acknowledge that the most efficient workers - and the ones who are not at heightened risk for an auto collision when commuting - are the rested ones. As such, the businesses have invested in sleep quarters where employees can actually take breaks to get some shuteye!  
  
  
• Many technical corporations run product tests in New Zealand. If it’s a failure, their reputations do not suffer on a rapid world-wide scale due to the island’s isolated location.
  
  
• Some realtors use blockbusting to knock down home prices: after acquiring a black family as renters on a home in the neighborhood, agents are able to purchase the remainder of properties at reduced cost because some white homeowners get panicky.
  
  
• Located within Pittsburgh, PA is a restaurant called ‘Conflict Kitchen’ where dishes from nations that the US is at odds with are served.
  
  
• A company whose owner is Hispanic, African/Native American or a female is considered a ‘socially and economically disadvantaged’ business by the US governing body.
  
  

• Talk about business innovation! With the deteriorating air quality of China, a man started marketing fresh air that goes for 80 cents a can. He profited over $6 million in less than 12 months!
  
  
• Is honesty the best policy? A coffee shop in North Dakota that has no staff on site says so. It uses the honor system to successfully collect payment from customers!
  
  
• At some CVS shops, theft alerting mechanisms were exclusively attached to displayed hair-care products designed explicitely for black customers.

• Beating all odds, PRIME Insurance Agency started out within a Lakewood, NJ home garage. Within 15 years, it has become an award-winning agency, conducting direct business with over 40 of the leading insurance companies. Located today within its own sophisticated state-of-the-art epicenter, it services more than 10,000 satisfied customers with pride!

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