Rahael's Bakery is a small organization which specializes is cakes, cookies, and other treats for special events such as birthdays, weddings, and religious affairs. In an effort to increase profit margins, the bakery management is implementing a cost-minimization strategy. Which of the following activities would not be a possible action under this strategy?
a. start selling plainly frosted cakes that the customer could then decorate.
b. only sell chocolate chip cookies
c. hold weekly employee meetings
d. stop delivery services
e. None of these ideas would work in the strategy.

C) hold weekly employee meetings

Explanation:

Generally when a company wants to minimize its costs, one of the first things it does is avoid employee meetings because it costs money and the employees are not producing anything during that time.

Generally cost minimizing companies also spend less money in perks, and any type of policy aimed at increasing employee commitment or satisfaction.

hold weekly employee meetings

Explanation:

Rachael's Bakery is trying to increase profit margins and a good way to do this will be by reducing cost that the business incurs.

The other options given result in reduced cost. That is selling plainly frosted cake, only selling chocolate chip cookies, and stopping delivery services.

However holding weekly employee meetings will result in increased cost. There will be increased cost of transporting employees to the meeting each week, and also logistics cost like accommodation.

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henry is an economist and wants to understand the relationship between inflation and consumer spending habits. for his research, he needs the consumer price index for 2014 and the inflation rate. based on the prices of goods given, what will he find to be the cpi and inflation rate for 2014? assume that a consumer’s basket for three consecutive years consists of the following:

you dont privide answer choices.

answer - 15% of a inflatation rate is 15% less in cpi

you have to put the parentheses like this:

in fact, you have to perform the operation inside parentheses first, and then proceed in order: