In any profit-driven industry, spending capital (money) on capacity you're not likely to ever use can be considered a waste of money.

Why build a factory capable of cranking out millions of widgets a year, if you're only ever going to sell 50k a year?

Why take the time (read: money) to move product from the truck to a mini-warehouse (more money) connected to your store, when you can just go direct from the truck to the shelves? This is fine until a demand or supply shock happens, then the shelves are bare, creating a panic, causing them to continue to be bare, even if the normal about of products are still arriving daily.

The wiki link says we have 2.7 beds per capita, but a pretty low utilization rate. Why spend the money to handle a once every 100 year pandemic? And like mentioned above, we also need all the support and people to work the beds too.

All answers above my pay grade too