This Calvin and Hobbes comic is a play on the law of supply and demand. Calvin is trying to run a lemonade stand that is strictly demand-driven. “A demand-driven supply network is a system of technologies, processes, and organization that senses and responds to signals across a value-driven network of customers, suppliers, and employees…[which results] in maintaining less inventory, delivering more perfect orders, having a shorter cash-to-cash cycle time, and enjoying higher revenue and profit margins” (Barrett 14). Susie Derkins, the supporting character, is questioning Calvin about customer safety in which he introduces the idea of caveat emptor. Caveat emptor means “buyers beware.” This idea of the consumer being responsible for any complications
