My "Retail Store Challenge" Gameplay!
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Week 1: Tuesday
(So, I thought I had Pietro restock the female mannequin, but for some reason it was not. So the decorating was held off until Pietro could restock. I didn't want to cheat and just delete the mannequin and buy another one for cheaper cost it would to restock.)
https://i.ibb.co/chmdzmR/032.jpg
Pietro gets up at 6am. A lot of Needs to be worked on. First he starts with breakfast again. Instead of having him go jogging, He's going to work on stretching, situps, and pushups. Then Pietro has a good shower.
https://i.ibb.co/TRwBtJM/033.jpg
I have Pietro restock the female outfit as well as change the outfits on all four mannequins. The mannequins were reposed and move around.
https://i.ibb.co/RSw0Cmn/034.jpg
I used Perk points first to get the My First Simoleon plaque. Of course, the plaque cost 230 simoleons which only left him with 79 simoleons left. I spent 65 of them to buy a Tom's Flower Wall Box to add outside. Finishing off with 14 simoleons left.
There wasn't enough for any signage. Maybe tomorrow. Any celebrities that come in today, Pietro will ask for a selfie right away. That seemed to work on getting sales. Non celebrities will work on retail pitching.
https://i.ibb.co/8NvhdLJ/035.jpg
Pietro opens the store at 9am. Following the mark up rules now, today is a 15% mark up. Did it correct today.
The first customer arrives around 9:30am. Much better than yesterday. She's not a celebrity. So, Pietro begins the retail greeting. The customer after her is a celebrity. Pietro will ask for a selfie in a bit. And two more customer arrive. More non celebrities. Four customers in the store in the first half hour-ish. You're going to be busy Pietro.
https://i.ibb.co/HxTbBYR/036.jpg
One customer is checking out the chair (The Flowery) that Pietro sold two of yesterday during his grand opening. Another is trying on the male swimsuit. I think he'd turn a lot of heads. He should buy it. Pietro decides to go over to him to help convince him to buy it.
This guy's name is Darrel. Pietro sees if he has any questions or he has any particular preferences. Other customers are nearby, so he also makes sure to answer any questions they may have as well.
https://i.ibb.co/ysVYNqp/037.jpg
Pietro learns that the elder guest loves the outdoors. She's trying on the female swimwear. Pietro compliments her on it. Hopefully she'll want to buy it.
Darrel keeps going back to the male swimsuit. These ones seem to attract better than yesterday's beach outfits.
https://i.ibb.co/vZDHvHr/038.jpg
At 12:30pm, the message comes up Darrel is ready to be rung up. Pietro goes to make the sale and find out what Darrel wants. Is it the green swimsuit? Even the other customers are anxious to find out.
https://i.ibb.co/JkfLGDJ/039.jpg
Yes! He bought the male swimwear. But that face. So serious. Why so serious? Enjoy your new swimsuit, Darrel.
Pietro's Bladder is in the orange. Best go use the restroom so he doesn't make a mess. Luckily he's able to go and no one needs to be rung up. Pietro goes to restock the male swimwear that Darrel bought.
https://i.ibb.co/Tm5D97v/040.jpg
The elderly lady is ready to be rung up around 1:50pm. Her name is Eleanor. Since she loves the outdoors, hopefully she's going to buy that swimsuit. But it ends up she bought the planter (Tiered To Simplicity). Maybe she'll be back another day when a new outfit is for sale.
https://i.ibb.co/mScYzGw/041.jpg
The last of our non celebrities is ready to buy something around 2:30pm.
https://i.ibb.co/g62HcQ2/042.jpg
She decided to buy the swimsuit. It looks good on her.
Poor Pietro is almost starving. His Hunger is in the orange, so I brought his cooler down again and put it behind the register so he can grab a snack. The celebrity is still looking around. He can restock after a bite to eat.
While he's eating a new customer arrives. She is stated to be a Notable Newcomer. Hopefully she won't leave before Pietro can greet her.
Done eating and time to greet. But there's no option to greet customer. Just ask her to leave and Pietro's not going to do that. So he will restock the woman swimwear.
https://i.ibb.co/hKb9M56/043.jpg
As Pietro is restocking, the celebrity is ready to purchase. She's been here all day. He is almost finished restocking. Please hold out a little bit, ma'am. Pietro will be right with you.
As he's collecting her information, the Notable Newcomer is paying attention. She's probably curious what this celebrity is going to buy. Which is the long standing mirror (Natural Beauty Mirror). She's only a B-Lister, but am sure she wants to look good. And to look good, you need to check yourself out.
https://i.ibb.co/F8yhxtx/044.jpg
A Proper Celebrity arrives. Pietro goes over for a selfie. His name is Dirk Dreamer. Sounds like a soap opera name.
Then a B-Lister arrives. Another selfie for Pietro's phone.
Since Pietro cannot do much interactions with celebrities, he plays a few games on his phone while he waits for one of them to buy something or a new customer to arrive to his store. He's lacking entertainment as his Fun is in the orange. A little over 3.5 hours to go.
https://i.ibb.co/DGqvrJy/045.jpg
Around 6:45pm, the Newcomer is ready to buy. She's been looking at everything, so not sure what she is interested in. She was interested in the lounge chair (Tempting Teak Lounge Chair) it looked like. It was tempting, just like the name of it.
https://i.ibb.co/zVDM17X/046.jpg
Mr. Dreamer wanted to buy something a couple hours later at about 9:15pm. He had been chatting it up with the other celebrities that were there. He was finally convinced I see. That green chair (The Flowery) is a big hit. Dirk wanted that. I've sold a few of those now since yesterday.
https://i.ibb.co/52WRWnD/047.jpg
Pietro didn't have time to restock the chair before it was time to close the store at 10pm. 6 items sold today which is two more than yesterday.
Hopefully Pietro can keep this up.
He's a bit hungry, so Pietro grabs a snack from the cooler. After, I have him restock the chair.
https://i.ibb.co/zSS6gMW/048.jpg
Sleep well, Pietro.
https://i.ibb.co/gvHCkLw/darrel.jpg
(During Pietro's restocking when the store was open, I spied Darrel out in the water sporting off his new swimsuit to a lady. His girlfriend perhaps. Nice! Maybe she'll be a customer tomorrow!)
To Be Continued...
(So, I thought I had Pietro restock the female mannequin, but for some reason it was not. So the decorating was held off until Pietro could restock. I didn't want to cheat and just delete the mannequin and buy another one for cheaper cost it would to restock.)
https://i.ibb.co/chmdzmR/032.jpg
Pietro gets up at 6am. A lot of Needs to be worked on. First he starts with breakfast again. Instead of having him go jogging, He's going to work on stretching, situps, and pushups. Then Pietro has a good shower.
https://i.ibb.co/TRwBtJM/033.jpg
I have Pietro restock the female outfit as well as change the outfits on all four mannequins. The mannequins were reposed and move around.
https://i.ibb.co/RSw0Cmn/034.jpg
I used Perk points first to get the My First Simoleon plaque. Of course, the plaque cost 230 simoleons which only left him with 79 simoleons left. I spent 65 of them to buy a Tom's Flower Wall Box to add outside. Finishing off with 14 simoleons left.
There wasn't enough for any signage. Maybe tomorrow. Any celebrities that come in today, Pietro will ask for a selfie right away. That seemed to work on getting sales. Non celebrities will work on retail pitching.
https://i.ibb.co/8NvhdLJ/035.jpg
Pietro opens the store at 9am. Following the mark up rules now, today is a 15% mark up. Did it correct today.
The first customer arrives around 9:30am. Much better than yesterday. She's not a celebrity. So, Pietro begins the retail greeting. The customer after her is a celebrity. Pietro will ask for a selfie in a bit. And two more customer arrive. More non celebrities. Four customers in the store in the first half hour-ish. You're going to be busy Pietro.
https://i.ibb.co/HxTbBYR/036.jpg
One customer is checking out the chair (The Flowery) that Pietro sold two of yesterday during his grand opening. Another is trying on the male swimsuit. I think he'd turn a lot of heads. He should buy it. Pietro decides to go over to him to help convince him to buy it.
This guy's name is Darrel. Pietro sees if he has any questions or he has any particular preferences. Other customers are nearby, so he also makes sure to answer any questions they may have as well.
https://i.ibb.co/ysVYNqp/037.jpg
Pietro learns that the elder guest loves the outdoors. She's trying on the female swimwear. Pietro compliments her on it. Hopefully she'll want to buy it.
Darrel keeps going back to the male swimsuit. These ones seem to attract better than yesterday's beach outfits.
https://i.ibb.co/vZDHvHr/038.jpg
At 12:30pm, the message comes up Darrel is ready to be rung up. Pietro goes to make the sale and find out what Darrel wants. Is it the green swimsuit? Even the other customers are anxious to find out.
https://i.ibb.co/JkfLGDJ/039.jpg
Yes! He bought the male swimwear. But that face. So serious. Why so serious? Enjoy your new swimsuit, Darrel.
Pietro's Bladder is in the orange. Best go use the restroom so he doesn't make a mess. Luckily he's able to go and no one needs to be rung up. Pietro goes to restock the male swimwear that Darrel bought.
https://i.ibb.co/Tm5D97v/040.jpg
The elderly lady is ready to be rung up around 1:50pm. Her name is Eleanor. Since she loves the outdoors, hopefully she's going to buy that swimsuit. But it ends up she bought the planter (Tiered To Simplicity). Maybe she'll be back another day when a new outfit is for sale.
https://i.ibb.co/mScYzGw/041.jpg
The last of our non celebrities is ready to buy something around 2:30pm.
https://i.ibb.co/g62HcQ2/042.jpg
She decided to buy the swimsuit. It looks good on her.
Poor Pietro is almost starving. His Hunger is in the orange, so I brought his cooler down again and put it behind the register so he can grab a snack. The celebrity is still looking around. He can restock after a bite to eat.
While he's eating a new customer arrives. She is stated to be a Notable Newcomer. Hopefully she won't leave before Pietro can greet her.
Done eating and time to greet. But there's no option to greet customer. Just ask her to leave and Pietro's not going to do that. So he will restock the woman swimwear.
https://i.ibb.co/hKb9M56/043.jpg
As Pietro is restocking, the celebrity is ready to purchase. She's been here all day. He is almost finished restocking. Please hold out a little bit, ma'am. Pietro will be right with you.
As he's collecting her information, the Notable Newcomer is paying attention. She's probably curious what this celebrity is going to buy. Which is the long standing mirror (Natural Beauty Mirror). She's only a B-Lister, but am sure she wants to look good. And to look good, you need to check yourself out.
https://i.ibb.co/F8yhxtx/044.jpg
A Proper Celebrity arrives. Pietro goes over for a selfie. His name is Dirk Dreamer. Sounds like a soap opera name.
Then a B-Lister arrives. Another selfie for Pietro's phone.
Since Pietro cannot do much interactions with celebrities, he plays a few games on his phone while he waits for one of them to buy something or a new customer to arrive to his store. He's lacking entertainment as his Fun is in the orange. A little over 3.5 hours to go.
https://i.ibb.co/DGqvrJy/045.jpg
Around 6:45pm, the Newcomer is ready to buy. She's been looking at everything, so not sure what she is interested in. She was interested in the lounge chair (Tempting Teak Lounge Chair) it looked like. It was tempting, just like the name of it.
https://i.ibb.co/zVDM17X/046.jpg
Mr. Dreamer wanted to buy something a couple hours later at about 9:15pm. He had been chatting it up with the other celebrities that were there. He was finally convinced I see. That green chair (The Flowery) is a big hit. Dirk wanted that. I've sold a few of those now since yesterday.
https://i.ibb.co/52WRWnD/047.jpg
Pietro didn't have time to restock the chair before it was time to close the store at 10pm. 6 items sold today which is two more than yesterday.
Hopefully Pietro can keep this up.
He's a bit hungry, so Pietro grabs a snack from the cooler. After, I have him restock the chair.
https://i.ibb.co/zSS6gMW/048.jpg
Sleep well, Pietro.
https://i.ibb.co/gvHCkLw/darrel.jpg
(During Pietro's restocking when the store was open, I spied Darrel out in the water sporting off his new swimsuit to a lady. His girlfriend perhaps. Nice! Maybe she'll be a customer tomorrow!)
To Be Continued...
