When a customer chooses to accept an item of value from a business because it requires no incremental spending on the part of the customer, the customer is demonstrating the principle that: a. markets are an efficient way to organize economic activity. b. specialization produces benefits for society. c. customers are smarter than businesses. d. rational people think at the margin.

1. what are the unique operational challenges to delivering fresh meals? 2. why is speed of delivery so important for delivered meals? what variety of options contribute to this performance metric? 3. how could operations management concepts be utilized to improve the performance of freshly? 4. what are your typical product delivery times? what would be required to speed these up? 5. what are your delivery batch quantities? how could you reduce batch size and reduce delivery cost simultaneously using operations management concepts?