Late game profit growth tips?

[ADedL33Sp00n]

Hello all! I am wondering if there is a way to get more customers than 120 or if there are any suggestions for pricing or otherwise. I am nearly 250 hours in, but feel like I have completely plateaued on progress for quite a while now.

The store setup is as follows:
Day: 293
Store Level: MAX
Store Expansions:12
Storage Expansions:12
Licences Left: 6 (one more lvl 70 licence, the cat and dog food one, then the 81+ licences)
Employees: 2 Cashier, 2 Helper, 2 Janitor, 1 body guard, 6 Restockers ($1,140 per day)

After I hit max level, I changed to a 10% markup on everything to increase my margin and lower restock time by a little bit. Even still, I am only getting about 115-120 customers per day (usually 120-shoplifters) and making about $3500-$4000 in profit per day. I haven't seen an uplift in the number of customers since store level 80 or so and adding items doesn't seem to up the income by nearly enough anymore.

Considering that my final 6 Licences, 11 Store Expansions, and 3 Storage upgrades is going to cost a crisp $1,336,750. I am looking at between 350 and 380 more store days. Conservatively another like 200 game hours considering how long it takes to restock the store and warehouse (roughly 30 mins or so per in game day)

Am I missing something? Does anyone have any tips to bring up that daily revenue or significantly bring down stocking time?

I usually don't prefer to mod games for achievements, it just kind of soils the accomplishment for me personally. But I have to admit this grind has just lost all satisfaction at this point. I feel like I cant do anything to help anymore

[lawhed01]

The most you will get with customers is about 120-127 i average about $4500 profit a day. Fully maxed with all, only thing dont have is bodyguards so it is a grind and I got over 1000 hours in game, no mods installed

[Bunky]

You have plateaued, and we all do at your stage of the game. It's just how it's setup right now. There are online sales, discount sales, and wholesales due to be added, and we can only hope that this finally brings some much needed balance to the game.

I believe the only "legit" way to max profits any further, would be to start again and not buy into the licences. This will keep store costs way down while securing more-or-less the same income.

Personally, I used the 'Richer Customer' mod to secure the last 4 store growth upgrades and skipped that horrific grind before I lost total interest in the game.

[xenoview]

I get about 90 customers a day. I have 9 store sections. I have one register and 6 self checkouts. I make around $1200 profit a day. I pay almost $1100 for staff. 1 cashier, 3 stockers, 2 helpers, 1 security and a janitor.

[RaLf]

If you only want the achivement, dont buy more licenses, the revenue dont change at all and only cost youthe money to purchase it and it will take more time to restock

[CrazyIvan512]

Originally posted by ADedL33Sp00n:

Hello all! I am wondering if there is a way to get more customers than 120 or if there are any suggestions for pricing or otherwise. I am nearly 250 hours in, but feel like I have completely plateaued on progress for quite a while now.

The store setup is as follows:
Day: 293
Store Level: MAX
Store Expansions:12
Storage Expansions:12
Licences Left: 6 (one more lvl 70 licence, the cat and dog food one, then the 81+ licences)
Employees: 2 Cashier, 2 Helper, 2 Janitor, 1 body guard, 6 Restockers ($1,140 per day)

After I hit max level, I changed to a 10% markup on everything to increase my margin and lower restock time by a little bit. Even still, I am only getting about 115-120 customers per day (usually 120-shoplifters) and making about $3500-$4000 in profit per day. I haven't seen an uplift in the number of customers since store level 80 or so and adding items doesn't seem to up the income by nearly enough anymore.

Considering that my final 6 Licences, 11 Store Expansions, and 3 Storage upgrades is going to cost a crisp $1,336,750. I am looking at between 350 and 380 more store days. Conservatively another like 200 game hours considering how long it takes to restock the store and warehouse (roughly 30 mins or so per in game day)

Am I missing something? Does anyone have any tips to bring up that daily revenue or significantly bring down stocking time?

I usually don't prefer to mod games for achievements, it just kind of soils the accomplishment for me personally. But I have to admit this grind has just lost all satisfaction at this point. I feel like I cant do anything to help anymore

You arent missing anything.. This is how the Dev/s want the game to be, they do not want to fix the Economy of the game to allow for more profit, the max you can see no matter how you run the store and whether you buy all the licenses or not or how much you price the products, You will always be capped between 4k to 5k Profit per day on average, of course if you dont stock anything for a day or two and dont pay the daily bills you can get a little more profit that day, but you will need to restock the following days so that eats into the profits anyhow

They have profits fixed to only allow so much to keep players from going thru the content that is available too quickly , which in my opinion is the silliest thing I have ever seen..
If they make the grind less and allow us to keep rolling along and being able to unlock expansions and licenses more easily, players wouldnt become frustrated after 200 hours trying to get things unlocked, or having to grind out 30 real life hours to afford a single mid to late game expansion, I am 300 hours in and at store level 90 and have 5 expansions left to do, and 6 licenses, which are all duplicate type items of ones i already have, so I honestly dont care about them, I have stopped playing due to the time it takes to get things opened, If they ever decide to be nice to the players and allow for more profits, I may play again, I never use mods so its all vanilla grind grind grind, and I am over it now..

[pseudoswede]

I've been max level for about 250 game days. I average just over $5000 in profit per day. The only way to eke out more profit is to disable shoplifting (to save on security guard costs plus regain the 4-6 customers that turn into thieves) and run your own registers and short-change cash customers.