Story has it that a custodian working in a department store in the 1890s was the first to come up with the idea of building an upright vacuum cleaner. He found sweeping the floors was slow, tedious, and it caused dust to cover the merchandise. This moved him to look for a better way to clean the store. More than 100 years later, Scott Jones, the purchasing agent for the 37 Container Stores in North America, was faced with almost the same predicam

Join for free to read