Costco Soulmate Trading Outlet Attracts New Employees with Toyota Wagons

Costco Soulmate Trading Outlet Stays in Fast Lane With Creative Recruiting Strategy

BLACK ROCK CITY, Nev. - June 18, 2000 - Costco Soulmate Trading Outlet, Inc. (Burnaq: CSTO) the leading provider of low cost quality soulmates, today announced a new program to recruit staff by offering '86 Toyota Tarcel Wagons to employees who join the Black Rock City Location by Opening Day, August 28, 2000. Additionally, Black Rock City residents who recommend candidates who are hired get a stock grant for 500 CSTO shares.

Costco Soulmate Trading Outlet recently announced an enormous growth in not only revenues, up 624% year over year, but also a tremendous growth in the number of employees, up from 252 last year to 291 this last quarter. This new program is part of an ongoing effort to ensure a high level of employee recruiting to help meet Costco Soulmate Trading Outlet's aggressive hiring objectives. Across the company, Costco Soulmate Trading Outlet is expecting to hire hundreds of employees this year. Standard retention programs include employee referral bonuses, the Costco Soulmate Trading Outlet Wellness campaign (B-WELL), employee stock options and flexible work schedules.

"The tremendous successes on the business side of Costco Soulmate Trading Outlet is driving us to get creative to attract employees," said Mark Simms, vice president of human resources at Costco Soulmate Trading Outlet. "The free cars are part of one more program that we will be using that reflects the culture at Costco Soulmate Trading Outlet. Not only do we care about our employees, but we care about the community as well. Plus we had a few of these old cars we wanted to get rid of."

"Knowing that our existing employees have relationships with other businesses in Black Rock City, we wanted to leverage those relationships and reward both our employees and the new recruit for joining the team," said Rico, CEO of Costco Soulmate Trading Outlet. "This is why we decided to do the stock grant, to give back to the community while demonstrating our continued commitment to scaling our world-class team and demonstrating the value we place on individual employees."

Potential employees interested in full or part time employment in Black Rock CIty should contact Costco Human Resources.

About Costco Soulmate Trading Outlet

Costco Soulmate Trading Outlet (Burndaq: CSTO) is the leading provider of low-cost, quality soulmates in Black Rock City. For more information on the company and its products, visit the Costco Soulmate Trading Outlet Web site at www.thespoon.com/costco.