@EtherealLith You have to do more than just remove that cache file to test without Mods/CC. I would also recommend that you do a game repair in the process in your case. Please try the following steps, all in this order, and without skipping any steps, even if you've done them before:
However, this may solve some of your issues, but it's possible that if you're seeing the bug that this thread was merged into that you still will not see the employees in the store. However, if you're having endless loading screens and some issues not in this bug report, you could test this way to see if any of the issues you mentioned are removed in this test.
It's also possible if you're seeing endless loads that you could be seeing this bug: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Endless-Loading-Crashing-when-trying-to-load-a-certain-lot/td-p/13326793/highlight/true. I added a comment to it with my testing details on a couple of lots that I made (comment #403) where I found that the issue triggering it, as mentioned also by Crinrict's testing, was that I had a certain set of numerous debug logs stacked in it and I added this to both of these lots... and when I could finally enter one of them in build mode and removed these numerous stacked logs, the issue stopped for the lot. So, is the endless loading for you from a lot you added something like that on, one you got from the gallery that may have the issue, or one of the premade lots that others are having the issue on in this other bug report?
