The most unusual ways to save money

Saving can be different: for example, put less coffee in the cup itself - and health is useful, and spend less money. Or you can cheese sandwiches cut thinner. However, do not be so good, and the savings will be funny ... But if we are talking about millions of dollars, it becomes not so funny.
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1. Drivers of company «UPS» not turn left

Transport company «UPS» owns 96,000 trucks, which consume a lot of gas. When the company started looking for a way to reduce fuel costs, someone realized that the left turn spent more gas than on the right. In 2004, the «UPS» took antilevopovorotnuyu policy. This move not only helped them save ten million gallons of gas, but also to significantly reduce harmful emissions into the atmosphere.



2. «McDonalds» puts a slice of cheese in a double cheeseburger

In 2008, the «McDonalds» made a sneaky trick: remove one of the pieces of cheese from a double cheeseburger, made it a dollar cheaper and renamed «McDouble». This move allowed the company to save six cents per sandwich and $ 15 000 per year for the restaurant.



3. The US bank has cut the weight checks

We believe bank check something small, light and designed for flight in the trash. A bank check - it's not just empty, but more environmentally harmful waste of money. And the bank has changed the weight checks at the ATM - now there are not loaded nine kilograms of paper, and a total of seven. So Bank annual savings of $ 500,000, at the same time saving the trees.



4. American Airlines removed from the olive salad

The famous story of how American Airlines CEO Bob Crandall ordered to remove one olive from each salad, served to passengers during the flight, often repeated in corporate circles. Saving money in a pure form.

It sounds like an anecdote, but saves $ 40 000 to $ 500 000 per year. Although it seems that it is a drop in the ocean for a company like AA, but it's money.



5. The Airline «Ryanair» asked the flight attendants to lose weight

The European airline «Ryanair» Flight seeks to reduce weight to a minimum in any way it is only possible. They reduced the size of ice cubes and magazines for passengers with an A4 to A5. And they made their flight attendants to lose a few kilos. An additional 'motivation' was shooting in Calendar «Ryanair».



6. «Amazon» pays workers $ 5,000 for dismissal

«Amazon» is always thinking outside the box - this also applies to employees. In «Amazon» huge warehouses, and staff members who work there, is offered at $ 5,000 for the fact that they quit work.

The goal - to encourage people to take a moment and decide what they really want: to work for the company in the long term to make a career or just to get money. If a person only wants money from him, according to «Amazon», easier to just pay off rather than pay him a salary and not to invest in his training.



7. «Cisco» shut down for four days

Internet giant «Cisco» for four days fell into a state of "clinical death": from December 29 to January 2, all employees were sent to forced vacation. The move was part of a package of measures to reduce costs, which ultimately saved the company supposedly billion.



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