Increase profitability gift shop?

[Magistar]

So with the first gift shop I started with 1K-2K profit. Then I added the expensive gifts which increased my profits greatly; between 3.5K and 5K.

AFter this I did the following
-Train staff so 50% is the minimum skill
-Apply more staff so it is open 7 days from 8 till 22
-spend a few thoussand on floors and walls
-place a plant (expensive big one)
-run small marketing next to medium marketing

As a result the traffic potential and the satisfaction went up greatly. However my profit did not... In fact I see actual visitors dropping quite a bit. I guess I can try to increase prices but I did this early game and then I saw angry customers. Any thoughts?

[Gottkaiser Synter.exe]

This can and very likely will be caused by decreasing demand in your area. Playing with prices can work just make sure to check out the feedback. You can also try to sell things like flowers in your gift shop and see if it works. You should also check out in BizMan if you really need these long opening hours. Each shop usually has specific hours where the most customers come in

[Le'Stranger Wuv'Bottom]

Could be the amount of registers/shelves/inventory you have

[GabeO]

Take a look on your Cap/H. you cant get any higher profit than that.
if you have an building cap hit on 45. you only need as much CORRECT shelfs to equal this.
if you add extras, like an cigar shelfs, it LOWERS the sales to 10 CAP/H. so if you want extras you need 5 cigar shelfs to equal the building CAP/H.

you see your building CAP-HIT on insight tab in your biz. lower right corner.

[Magistar]

Thanks for the tips:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947912041

I guess I can open at 10:00. Anything else?

[CaponeAl [FR]]

formation for your personnel
raise marketing to 100%
raise interior to 100% (it seems you have no music -> IKA for music speaker ; 80$ )

[secondcrisis]

For my gift shops I also always sell both flowers. on my 15 cap gift shop I was making 10k a month on easy mode with 2 cleaners, 2 customer service.

[jhughes]

Originally posted by CaponeAl FR:

formation for your personnel
raise marketing to 100%
raise interior to 100% (it seems you have no music -> IKA for music speaker ; 80$ )

I think 20% score in interior designer gives you 100% on the interior score.. so no need to spend too much on floors and walls. (David can corremt me if I am wrong on that number :D)

If you look at gift shop in 'F1 help' you can also sell soda, both type of flowers, 3 types of electronics (both smart watches and Tre Headphones) and 1 type of book (picture book).

[David Estes Creations]

Originally posted by jhughes:

I think 20% score in interior designer gives you 100% on the interior score..

You're on the right track, but it's the other way - the interior designer score is only part of the full interior score. So, 100% Interior Designer gives about 25% for the Interior Score (the rest is uniforms, music, tables/chairs).

[squib]

Look at everything that you can add into a gift shop. You can add the electronics and flowers. Set it up right, with security, music etc and it can make a screaming profit. Mine makes about $18K per day, in the small first store.

[PsyCho_JL]

Do you spend time inside the store and see the customer feedback?