It was reported in NYT in 2015 that many G nationals were swapping goods and services for other goods and services in rural areas. The cashless transactions were happening because banks had been closed down on June 28 for three weeks. Swapping of goods and services for other goods and services without the use of money is commonly known as barter exchange. Barter exchange happens when a contract is made to exchange goods and services against other goods and services without the use of currency.

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?