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Company · Retail · founded 1954

FedMart

Discount department store chain started in San Diego by Sol Price, who later founded Price Club. Jim Sinegal began there as a bagger and became an executive vice president.

Of the 1 person here linked to FedMart, 0 are founders and 0 are still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.

Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.

1 person at FedMart

Employee

Role

Grocery bagger, rising to executive vice president in charge of merchandising and operations, 1955
Source · medium confidence. Wikipedia gives the 1955 start; the FedMart article also says he began as a bagger and became an executive vice president. No end year is stated.
Past
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Jim Sinegal
Co-founder of Costco Wholesale and its president and CEO from 1983 until 2012, after nearly three decades working up through Sol Price's FedMart and Price Club
working-class · well-connected · college degree