Sunday Delivery Welcome! You are encouraged to register with the site and login (for free). When you register, you support the site and your question history is saved.An online retailer that makes its deliveries through a private shipping company has determined that, unlike before, now it can profitably begin making deliveries seven days a week, not just six days a week. Delivering a given number of shipments within a narrower window of time tends to be more cost effective, because, on average, delivery trucks will be able to exploit economies in their driving routes and will incur lower average shipping costs per dollar of delivered goods per hour. Nevertheless, the retailer expects profits to rise with the change.Which of the following, if true, provides the best reason for the expectation? Due to trends in retail, the average volume occupied in a delivery truck by a single shipment has increased. Due to a shift in consumer sentiment, the additional purchases that customers will be inclined to make by receiving their items marginally faster will outweigh the loss of savings of spreading shipments over a greater number of days. Due to mismanagement at the shipping company, most of the cost savings made possible by delivering over six days rather than seven are not captured. The expanded delivery timetable will attract new customers to the retailer and it will drive away no customers at all. Due to reorganization at both the shipping company and the retailer, the trucks' delivery routes will have to be redesigned in the near future anyway, so the retailer can make the change in timetable now without incurring any one-time costs related to the change in operations. Review Answer