What is the Consumer Price Index? a.
a measure of prices of housing and rental costs all over the country
b.
an index of prices of items used by manufacturers and retailers
c.
an index determined by measuring the price of standard goods bought by urban consumers
d.
an index of the cost of living for all U. S. consumers

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?