- Have the items been restocked when you leave the lot and come back (that's how it always worked in my game)?
No, the items never restock. I could play any other household, leave, return, etc. It will remain as is until I am actively managing the retail location to have the store manually restock. When I first purchased the pack for this, it wasn't like that. This is a more recent occurrence. For instance, the toy store that comes with the pack Paddywack's Emporium, let's say The Adam's Family owns this retail lot. After a shift of actively working, most of the items sell out. If I switch households, to the Patridge Family and visit with their kids, all of the items are still mostly sold out. I could visit again with the Brady Bunch and the same items will still be sold out. The only time this changes is when I am back to playing The Adam's Family and I have my store employee or myself restock the store. If I can recall correctly, in the past, the stores would automatically restock when playing any other family.
- Have you tried to briefly play the owner houshold and give the employees the task to restock the items?
That's the only way I am able to restock items now. is to play the managing household (The Adam's Family) to restock. This action means that before I stop playing a household who manages a retail store, I have to make sure everything is restocked before playing a different household, every time. I just do not recall it being this way prior to the last two to three months. I have had this game for a while now.
EDIT: I tested this with a vanilla PC game and indeed employees won't restock anything while your Sims is on the lot, but everything is restocked when you leave and return to the lot. I believe NPC shops have always worked this way, but I'm not sure.
Indeed. Nothing restocks for me unless I manually restock them prior to wanting to play a different household.
I hope this makes sense.
