Aid organizations favor cash transfers after a flood because families can choose what they need. A logistics specialist objects that when local supplies are scarce, cash may bid up prices without increasing available food or medicine. The organizations respond that delivery should vary by market condition: where shops reopen and inventories recover, cash is efficient; where supply routes remain blocked, agencies should use direct goods or restricted vouchers and shift later as markets stabilize. The objection, they argue, defeats cash as an automatic rule, not cash as one tool in a monitored response.