Superstore?

[Noctarius]

Is it possible to use the 1000m² retail building to setup a superstore that sells all the wares?
I mean, sure the game will allow me to set it up, but will it actually work, or would most products only sit in their shelves without ever getting touched?

[[OV]RPGforYOU]

yes it will work! :)

[SmlehliW]

best, you look at MIDtown district and sell "Clothes" at your Mainware. Train your workers or put your best worker there from your other shop, then you have much customers.

Bring an Bed/Fridge/TV + Speakers from IKA with the cart by Taxi or Metro. Cart not let stay empty, then you lost it ... good luck for the 1st "big business"

[soldyne]

I have two supermarkets selling all the food items plus floral. You can sell all the wares, but, if you want to be at maximum customers then it will take up a lot of space. I don't think you could fit all the items at max capacity into a single store just because you would need 64 clothing racks, 16 bakery showcases, 20 round showcases, 8 fryers, 8 coffee machines and about 4 of each other display. it would certainly be a feat to shove all that into a single store and still have room to move around.

[SmlehliW]

Originally posted by soldyne:

I have two supermarkets selling all the food items

forget all food, you make no profit. all others make profit and look for high-traffik in Midtown. Increase the prices if your workers have near 100% ...

[Agent707]

Originally posted by Noctarius:

Is it possible to use the 1000m² retail building to setup a superstore that sells all the wares?

It's really the only good usage of the floor space. And the only kind of stores I build

20 round displays
- 5 cheap gifts
- 5 expensive gifts
- 5 cheap flowers
- 5 expensive flowers
64 clothes racks (8 of each type)
8 cigar racks
8 wine racks
10 jewelry cases (5 cheap, 5 expensive)
5 frozen food cases (probably less with larger ones)
4 fresh foods (but I put in 5 to keep them the same as the other)
4 drink fridge

Leaves plenty of room for checkouts
3 checkouts (my training store has 8 small ones. I employee people here until they're trained to 100%)

This still leaves the entire back room for tons of storage racks
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2960557318
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2960561517

[Noctarius]

Originally posted by Agent707:

20 round displays
- 5 cheap gifts
- 5 expensive gifts
- 5 cheap flowers
- 5 expensive flowers
64 clothes racks (8 of each type)
8 cigar racks
8 wine racks
10 jewelry cases (5 cheap, 5 expensive)
5 frozen food cases (probably less with larger ones)
4 fresh foods (but I put in 5 to keep them the same as the other)
4 drink fridge

Which business type works best for this setup? Does it make a difference if I declare it as Clothing or Gift Shop?

[Tanyon]

Originally posted by Agent707:

Originally posted by Noctarius:

Is it possible to use the 1000m² retail building to setup a superstore that sells all the wares?

It's really the only good usage of the floor space. And the only kind of stores I build

20 round displays
- 5 cheap gifts
- 5 expensive gifts
- 5 cheap flowers
- 5 expensive flowers
64 clothes racks (8 of each type)
8 cigar racks
8 wine racks
10 jewelry cases (5 cheap, 5 expensive)
5 frozen food cases (probably less with larger ones)
4 fresh foods (but I put in 5 to keep them the same as the other)
4 drink fridge

Leaves plenty of room for checkouts
3 checkouts (my training store has 8 small ones. I employee people here until they're trained to 100%)

This still leaves the entire back room for tons of storage racks
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2960557318
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2960561517

Curious what your sales are like? Pretty good? worth it?

[Jeza]

Originally posted by Noctarius:

Originally posted by Agent707:

20 round displays
- 5 cheap gifts
- 5 expensive gifts
- 5 cheap flowers
- 5 expensive flowers
64 clothes racks (8 of each type)
8 cigar racks
8 wine racks
10 jewelry cases (5 cheap, 5 expensive)
5 frozen food cases (probably less with larger ones)
4 fresh foods (but I put in 5 to keep them the same as the other)
4 drink fridge

Which business type works best for this setup? Does it make a difference if I declare it as Clothing or Gift Shop?

With this setup you cannot declare it as fast food or coffee for obvious reasons. Otherwise I would recommend checking the demand in the neighborhood and declare the type that has most demand.
If you want to min/max you would adjust this frequently, maybe even daily.
It might be that supermarket will never be a good choice regardless of the demand because the main items for this store are too cheap and another type with less demand but more expensive main items would be better, this you would have to test for yourself.

[SmlehliW]

Originally posted by Noctarius:

Does it make a difference if I declare it as Clothing or Gift Shop?

best is Midtown with traffic over 40> 1st = Clothes, if there are not more than 4 in nieghborhood. Dont forget increase your selling-prices with stuff all 100% 500$marketing and 24/7open

[Agent707]

Originally posted by Noctarius:

Originally posted by Agent707:

20 round displays
- 5 cheap gifts
- 5 expensive gifts
- 5 cheap flowers
- 5 expensive flowers
64 clothes racks (8 of each type)
8 cigar racks
8 wine racks
10 jewelry cases (5 cheap, 5 expensive)
5 frozen food cases (probably less with larger ones)
4 fresh foods (but I put in 5 to keep them the same as the other)
4 drink fridge

Which business type works best for this setup? Does it make a difference if I declare it as Clothing or Gift Shop?

You can change it up on the fly to whatever makes the most for where it's at. Try clothing, then gifts...etc. You'll know after a day or so.

I'm not a min/max type gamer (well, to a point anyway). I have that one set to gifts. Makes good enough for me. I think like 200k per day? I only have 3 stores in that game.
I've just been dorking around with the game really. Not trying to build a billion $$ empire. Nothing really for it at this state of the game.

Thanks

[Agent707]

Originally posted by DarthTanyon:

Originally posted by Agent707:

It's really the only good usage of the floor space. And the only kind of stores I build

20 round displays
- 5 cheap gifts
- 5 expensive gifts
- 5 cheap flowers
- 5 expensive flowers
64 clothes racks (8 of each type)
8 cigar racks
8 wine racks
10 jewelry cases (5 cheap, 5 expensive)
5 frozen food cases (probably less with larger ones)
4 fresh foods (but I put in 5 to keep them the same as the other)
4 drink fridge

Leaves plenty of room for checkouts
3 checkouts (my training store has 8 small ones. I employee people here until they're trained to 100%)

Curious what your sales are like? Pretty good? worth it?

Not sure what you mean by "worth it"? Worth the trouble to set it up? Or worth the $$ investment?
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Def worth both. Your initial investment (for all the stuff you have to buy) pays for itself in a matter of a days. I think your initial investment is probably around 250k plus inventory...

You'll make that back in a couple of days.

I think that particular store makes about 200-250k per day? Not sure.
Could be way better if I jacked the prices up and maybe switched it to clothing..

[Steppenrazor]

So business type does matter more then i thought?

I thought i'd read the type only largely meant it would sell more of it's "Main" Items.. with the rest as more impulse buys. (which can actually make you more money then the normal items..)

but if i read this thread right - folks are saying -

if i have a fast food place, and there are say 6 other fast food places in same district,

If the district has say only 2 coffee shops - if i were to switch it to selling Coffee.. it could end up making a bit more per day? (still selling the same items.)

[Sistermatic™]

Is the superstore worth the effort though? I'm getting 120k per day with a single 285m2 clothing store in Midtown, without changing prices.

Seems a lot of work for the return. Of course, there is the fun factor of setting it up and watching customers go nuts, so worth is subjective I guess.

I know the balance will stop that, but does make me wonder if game should include a 'general store' classification to make super stores really worth doing.

[Jeza]

Originally posted by Steppenrazor:

So business type does matter more then i thought?

I thought i'd read the type only largely meant it would sell more of it's "Main" Items.. with the rest as more impulse buys. (which can actually make you more money then the normal items..)

but if i read this thread right - folks are saying -

if i have a fast food place, and there are say 6 other fast food places in same district,

If the district has say only 2 coffee shops - if i were to switch it to selling Coffee.. it could end up making a bit more per day? (still selling the same items.)

yes that's correct.
well it could be correct depending let me explain

Say donuts are 100% demand and cheap Jewelry is at 50
In the same exact building a shop selling donuts and cheap jewelry a coffee shop will get twice as many customers than a jewelry store would
However the coffee shop will sell mostly donuts worth 2 or 3 bucks while jewelry is worth 14 to 30 depending where you sell so it might still be more profitable to sell a few items of jewelry rather than a lot of donuts

So it's all about trial and error to find the best type to declare if your shop can sell everything.