Supermarket Simulator – Starter Guide

Guide to Basics

Getting Started

  • Learn the basics of the game, like stock management, shelving, and cashiering in the tutorial.
  • Take your time! Start small and expand gradually as you earn money. Avoid credit.
  • Of course mistakes are normal. So you need to learn from them and keep improving.

Managing Your Store

  • Maintain a good stock: Customers won’t be satisfied if they can’t find what they want.
  • Organize shelves logically: Make it easy for customers to find products.
  • Set competitive prices: Aim for a balance between profit and affordability.
  • Hire staff: You can’t do everything alone.

Making Money

  • Offer promotions: Attract more customers and increase sales.
  • Invest in your store: Upgrade equipment and expand your sales area.
  • Respond to customer requests: Satisfied customers are repeat customers.

Unlock Items

  • Don’t rely solely on your employees.
  • Keep track of your progress in the management computer.
  • Ensure you have the right equipment in stock to unlock items.
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17 Comments

  1. It’s unclear if customers are more likely to purchase a wider variety of items if there are 12 unlocked items available rather than just 6. They occasionally purchase one item, and other times they purchase five.

    • The quantity purchased soon loses significance since each customer chooses what to buy and how much of it based only on a random number. The way that customers purchase eggs is a very good indicator of this: rather than purchasing eggs in a single size or in sensible combinations of egg boxes, they purchase things like 3×4 and 2×12 eggs.

  2. The inventory management system is the only one for which registration is required. For the remainder, there is no need to register.

  3. Purchasing two x 6 items is preferable to purchasing one x 10 items.
    12 items (2 x 6) = 8 €
    10 items = 8 €

  4. Usually, when I set prices, I go with round numbers instead of decimals, like 1, 2,…
    Makes working as a cashier so much simpler!

    As a general rule, prices should be rounded up if they are 0.5 or above and down if they are less.
    You might make more money from some products but lose money from others. If a product is costly by default, you can round up to +2$.
    Although 7% of all customers will occasionally complain about prices, they will still purchase something else and the SP will not be as bad.

    However, the assistance is enormous when working as a cashier; give it a shot and let me know what you think!

    • It indicates that either you were missing an item or the prices were too high, which cost you some skill points. You gain more skill points for bigger and better items and other things every sale you make.

  5. To reorganize, take items off the shelves using an empty box the right size. The size of the box and the box the product is shipped in must match.

  6. Maintaining profitability is becoming more difficult; after reaching level 10, I’m losing more money than I’m gaining from price changes. I also don’t get a lot of *it costs too much for me*. Hmm.

  7. When the lines at the registers are long, I believe I have witnessed customers leaving the store with their bags and possibly their purchases.

  8. Can I focus on a particular product line, or do I have to keep everything that I’ve unlocked on the shelves at all times?

    • Even if you don’t have anything on your shelf, they will still look elsewhere. Thus, you could theoretically specialize:) The drawback is that you advance more slowly at the shop level.

  9. I tested your price tip and applied 20% to each product’s vendor price.
    Received a “too much” for each item.
    My tried-and-true tip is to add -,30 Miney to the vendor price of each item.
    This only yields 2-4 financial gains, but you never receive complaints. In my level 16 store, 12 products are produced daily, with one shelf for each item.

    • Customers occasionally complain, in my opinion, if the price has increased.30 euros. For instance, they chose not to purchase “yoghurt” because it was inexpensive. however it was fine for some things.
      As Crypto suggested, I observed that it might be the customer complaint filter (%).

  10. These prices are not totally accurate. I add roughly 10% to each MP of products, and I hardly ever hear complaints about excessive prices.

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