Is there any benefits to use warehouse shelves instead of just add more selling shelves?

[Woof Woof Wolf]

To me the only downside of not using warehouse shelves is boxes are littering everywhere.
It is actually faster that way cause stocking employee can just grab the box and drop the box in front of the selling shelve.
Am I missing something about it?

[lbigheadm]

TLDR: Using the warehouse shelves is better than adding more sell shelves.

I made the mistake of having my shelf then random overflow inventory shelves and it slowed me down hurt my sales. The reason has to do with how shopping is programmed. The customer will pick random shelves to visit and if they decide to buy items from the shelf they will do a roll for how many. If they went to the overflow shelf and it had 1 item they would buy at most 1 item. Using a warehouse shelf to stock a shelf full means they will roll and can buy multiple of the item. At 30 you get access to the wide shelf and it has a hold capacity of 64 which is in terms of them rolling how many to buy.

For a while I just had an organized pile of boxes on the ground and did my order based off that. Once you start getting NPC's and higher sales you will be making it harder on yourself not using warehouse shelves.

Knowing what I know now I would invest in large warehouse shelves over new product because a full sales shelf will make you more money than one that isn't.

[malogoss]

Warehouse shelves can hold 16 boxes worth of items. I'll let you figure out, for the same space used, how many boxes worth can any type of regular shelves hold. Which means that it's easier (or more space efficient) to build stock using warehouse shelves.

Secondly, I find it way easier to go to the warehouse and order one box for each one that is missing on the shelves rather than walking my regular shelves aisles to figure out what products need a full box or two. When the same product sits on 4 or 6 shelf spaces, where 2 are empty and the others half full, it's a chore to figure out how many boxes you really need. Well, unless you're into that type of thing.

Thirdly, boxes on the floor do work, yes. I mistakenly have one of those sometimes, but it's so ugly I just can't on the long term. Not much of an argument, just saying the floor option is not for everyone. There's a customer review system on the roadmap. I really hope we'll get bad reviews for messy stores, where there's piles of boxes everywhere.

[mvtemp]

I found that the warehouse shelves help me keep the floor clean, but also give me the ability to quickly scan my inventory and figure out what I need to order when its time to restock. I also currently haven't hired an employee so having the warehouse shelves makes it far easier to find the specific box I need. Before I put the shelves in I was constantly having to wade through my own boxes to figure out which one was the one I needed. It constantly broke my immersion in the game to have boxes strewn about.

But that's my $0.02, your mileage may vary. :P

[Woof Woof Wolf]

Originally posted by lbigheadm:

TLDR: Using the warehouse shelves is better than adding more sell shelves.

I made the mistake of having my shelf then random overflow inventory shelves and it slowed me down hurt my sales. The reason has to do with how shopping is programmed. The customer will pick random shelves to visit and if they decide to buy items from the shelf they will do a roll for how many. If they went to the overflow shelf and it had 1 item they would buy at most 1 item. Using a warehouse shelf to stock a shelf full means they will roll and can buy multiple of the item. At 30 you get access to the wide shelf and it has a hold capacity of 64 which is in terms of them rolling how many to buy.

For a while I just had an organized pile of boxes on the ground and did my order based off that. Once you start getting NPC's and higher sales you will be making it harder on yourself not using warehouse shelves.

Knowing what I know now I would invest in large warehouse shelves over new product because a full sales shelf will make you more money than one that isn't.

Oh I didn't do overflow shelves, I use multiple shelf slots for 1 goods. Every morning I check each shelf to see if there is a box laying in front of the shelf, if it wasn't I know I need buy more of that goods so those shelves are always being feed.

I don't shelve either, and the employee have no trouble to find the box on the ground. After they shelve if the box is not empty they will just drop the box in front of the shelf and do their next thing. With warehouse shelf they would have to go back to the warehouse shelf is place it there. They actually work slower with warehouse shelf unless you place the warehouse next to the selling shelf... speaking of this I might try to place a warehouse shelf next to selling shelf to see how it goes XD never thought of that

[Woof Woof Wolf]

Originally posted by mvtemp:

I found that the warehouse shelves help me keep the floor clean, but also give me the ability to quickly scan my inventory and figure out what I need to order when its time to restock. I also currently haven't hired an employee so having the warehouse shelves makes it far easier to find the specific box I need. Before I put the shelves in I was constantly having to wade through my own boxes to figure out which one was the one I needed. It constantly broke my immersion in the game to have boxes strewn about.

But that's my $0.02, your mileage may vary. :P

I can tolerate the messy floor if is makes my worker work faster, that's why I wish warehouse shelf is better then just littering boxes everywhere cause right now I think employee work slower if the warehouse is too far away

[Woof Woof Wolf]

Oh I get it now, I think it is a me problem. I just realize the size of warehouse shelf and double size shelf is almost the same, I guess they were meant to place next to each other?

[moshhammer]

One Warehouse shelf can hold 16 large boxes or 32 small boxes. That means you can have A LOT of stock, therefore people will buy more. Or do you have 4 large boxes lying around infront of all of your shelves?
Also it should be obvious that it's incredibly ugly and non-immersive to have all of your boxes laying around.. it's called "SIMULATOR" after all.