1) The shortage of essentials that are critical to everyday consumers, especially with the Corona virus, such as cleaning supplies, medicines, etc. And then the other mostly essentials, (yes toilet paper is an acceptable topic here) at retailers. What can be done to mitigate these issues and how would you handle stock piling upstream of the retailer?

2) Inventory in the healthcare industry.

a) As the lecture states, services have inventories of people. So, what are hospitals et al., doing to ensure enough capacity/inventory?

b) ICU beds, medical supplies, ventilators, etc.

What happens when these run short? What is the role of everyone (hospitals, government, etc.) in ensuring that supply > demand?

Amazon Puts Whole Foods on Fast Track to Conventional Supermarket Specialty grocer will no longer allow 'brand advocates' in stores, a potential blow to local sellers WERBS HOMEOPATHY KIDS BODY CARE ww Customers shop at a Whole Foods store in New York. PHOTO: BRENDAN MCDERMID/REUTERS By Heather Haddon and Annie Gasparro Updated Sept. 21, 2017 5:01 p.m. ET Whole Foods will change the way companies can sell and market their products in its stores beginning next year, one of the biggest moves yet in its push to operate more like a traditional market. Under the changes planned for April, Whole Foods' 470 locations will no longer allow brand representatives to promote their products or check to make sure they are stocked and displayed correctly. Whole Foods also is centralizing much of its decision-making regarding the assortment of products across the chain. Instead of allowing brands to frequently pitch their products to individual stores or regions, Whole Foods executives in its Austin, Texas, headquarters will choose a higher percentage of the inventory. The move was slowly getting under way before Amazon.com Inc.'s