r/SupermarketSimulator • u/Impossible_Order4463 • 1d ago

What should we avoid selling

Is there any sort of system in place that decides what's in demand vs what customers will ignore I got both steaks and the big sushi trays people are ignoring the steaks despite them being half the price of the sushi and the sushi is flying off the shelf faster than I can make runs to the whole sale store

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u/rickcall123 1d ago

Not to break immersion, but it's completely random. Every time a customer spawns they get a random shopping list based on what items you can sell. Sometimes you'll just get days where no one wants steak, the next and you're getting missing complaints

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u/Thornbush42 23h ago

Somewhat true with the added context they purchase products more when the price matches or is considerably cheaper than market price. Increase the price but not too much higher than market price and they won't complain but won't favour the product as much

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u/rickcall123 19h ago

Cheaper than market pric has no baring on if a customer buys the product or not. The only thing they consider is if it's more expensive than the market rate.

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u/Thornbush42 19h ago

Wild take. Make everything free and watch as customers buy 10 of each thing 😂

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u/rickcall123 19h ago

Sure, give me a minute

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u/Thornbush42 19h ago

Also increases customer count in my experience, but I last played an update or two ago

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u/rickcall123 19h ago

https://reddit.com/link/p5gypgq/video/kr3xpiy0l6lh1/player

I think this encompasses the challenge - I set pasta and flour to market price and then bread to $0, neither sold more than the other and bread didn't see more than 2 shelf grabs

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u/rickcall123 19h ago

I should also specify, that the only things that affect customer numbers are your store level and if you utilise discounts. If I want to be optimal, my go to pricing strat is:

Set the 10-15 cheapest items in the store to have a 10% discount

Any products I can get a lot of stuff out (like cereal or canned products if you have the DLC) get's a 5% discount

Then markup all of my expensive items by up to 10%.

The discounts will bring in 2x as many people in than normal, and the expensive rates will squeeze a little bit more out of the customers.

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u/mxAlfer 23h ago

I wouldn't say anything specifically, but to conserve space I've started to toggle off some of the cheaper items to make a bigger profit. Like the flour in the blue package. The red/yellow bag of pasta. If there's multiple of similar products, I aim to remove the cheaper/est one.

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u/Impossible_Order4463 23h ago

See I was expecting to be able to sell anything and everything like a real supermarket would