How H-E-B planned for the pandemic
The interesting bit here: this is a company that has a full-time Director of Emergency Preparedness. They've had plans for dealing with a pandemic flu outbreak on the books since the bird flu outbreak of 2005. So when it actually happened, they could just pick up those plans and run with them.This is remarkable because it's hard to imagine most American companies, which are always looking to squeeze out a little more profit to juice the quarterly report, keeping someone on staff whose full-time job is to plan for what seem in good times like extremely remote contingencies. H-E-B, notably, is privately held.