> "Keeping extra inventory is a waste of money." But he is right! Extra inventory has a cost. Each cost increases the final price. And the customers, they don

> "Keeping extra inventory is a waste of money." But he is right! Extra inventory has a cost. Each cost increases the final price. And the customers, they don't buy from you because you have extra inventory in case of a global pandemic (as well as they don't buy from you because you employ local staff or because you pay them well or because you make an actual effort to reduce your carbon footprint): no, customers buy cheap. Whenever you are tempted to criticize a corporation about some decision they took, do consider those pesky, cheap customers first.