Would you like to have a grocery store lot where your sims would go grocery shopping, could work at, or own ?

https://i.imgur.com/pubabMY.jpg(Imagine that this was in TS2!!)It’s something I’ve been wanting since I’ve been playing TS4. A supermarket/grocery store lot, similar to retail stores, where my sims could go grocery shopping like regular people (rater than have everything appear In the fridge), where sims could work, or that you could own. I might be the only one, but I liked going to the Grocery Store In TS3 (even though it was a rabbit hole). So I’d like to have one in TS4 too.

1000000% yes. This is one of features I want more than anything else. It's mind boggling that we still don't have grocery stores in a 6 year old LIFE SIMULATOR.

Really? More boring pointless chores?Absolutely NOT. I still remember hating you had to go to a store and BUY your new outfits in Sims 2.

Only if I could still "order in" on a per meal basis.The only reason I go to the store in person IRL is because I like control over what produce and meats I get and I know what I can do without and what I must find a substitute for - and what substitutes work for whatever I'm planning. It's a level of nuance I don't need in a game where 24 hours in game takes 30 minutes in reality.I have so many other things I want my sims to be doing - skilling up, collecting, writing books, harvesting the garden, etc - and stories I want to tell (I don't need "difficulty" to make the game fun) that having to put that on hold to send someone to the grocery store ... no thanks. Maybe if it didn't put the whole plum household on pause for actually getting stuff done when I left the lot, it might be interesting on occasion.They did introduce the produce kiosk in City Living, so there's some precedent for it. And I wouldn't mind if they had something similar for meats, dairy, breads and such, and the overall cost was less than if you just paid for ingredients as you do now.I wouldn't mind if they added a Grocery store.I just don't want it to be mandatory.

"Sk8rblaze;c-17422867" wrote:"Beardedgeek;c-17422861" wrote:Really? More boring pointless chores?Absolutely NOT. I still remember hating you had to go to a store and BUY your new outfits in Sims 2.Everything not handed to you and having to play the game? Oh, the horror. I’d love grocery stores and having to buy clothes from TS2 in the next game. It’s a life simulator, give me more objectives and goals to work for aside from pointless aspirations and rewards which only simplify an already too easy game. You got me all wrong. I hate how extremely easy Sims 4 is compared to older titles. That said, I don't see the connection you try to make.Quite frankly I find playing a game that is just like reality absolutely pointless. After all, I am alive. I know what being alive is like, I don't have to simulate it.What I WANT is to be able to do the things I CANNOT do in real life. Which is why I love Island Living, I guess. Actually spending my days living on the beach, in a climate without any of that utter horror I experience every winter, namely winter. Actually making enough money as a freelancer to only have to work two days a week and spend the rest sunbathing, diving looking at turtles, or well wear as little clothes as possible everywhere. Or having enough motivation to actually get a six pack and go to the gym four days a week.Going to the grocery store ads absolutely zero to my gaming experience, just like laundry (or knitting) ads zero to my gaming experience. I get the same enjoyment from doing laundry in Sims 4 as I do from pausing the game and do laundry IRL. But at least I can fast forward past it, I guess. Instead, give me some actual goals and motivations with challenges. Remove the reward store, or at least remove all "cheats" (the mermaid kelp, the potions, the total immunity to needs). Make it almost impossible to reach more than one aspiration per lifetime and only make it possible to change the aspiration when you age up so picking the correct one will be important. Make me CARE about skilling up, and not just see it as something I fast-forward thru to reach my next 100 rewards points in my latest Aspiration (of what I will have completed about 6 aspirations at death, having 30 000 reward points and earning 12 000 Simolions a day. As I said, Sims 4 has 0% challenge for anything).

Would you like to have grocery stores in TS4 ?

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Huiiie_17
5 years ago
Oh please no. I can't imagine something more boring than watching sims buying groceries. There's so many more exciting things they could add to the game instead.
CynthiaCorrea08
5 years ago
> @Atreya33 said:
> 100% yes. I don't like how the food appears to be in the fridge out of thin air. I would love to have grocery stores.
>
> As a long time sims 2 fan, I still like how it was handled in that version. Fridges had a capacity that needed to be filled. If the counter hit zero, a sim could no longer cook because the fridge was empty. Besides going to a store there was an option to have groceries delivered (delivered in a basket by a npc, not magically appear in the inventory).
>
> Groceries and actually paying for clothes would add so much realism to the game.

I absolutely agree, Those were the little things I appreciated about sims 2. I really like the entrepreneur idea and so I would like to be able to use the gardening tool and cooking/baking/gourmet option to create a supermarket store. I don't like the auto restock.

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Tennedra
5 years ago
A grocery store sounds amazing! It would especially be nice if players can build their own. It should also be possible to own a grocery store. Or a sim can transform a retail to grocery or have a combination of both. With grocery stores can also be the ability to buy the house and store on the same lot; it would be fun to have a sim live in the same building as their store. It's also a great opportunity to add more foods and produce.

My main concern with grocery stores would be how often the sims need to go to them. I don't want my gameplay taken over by going to the store every three days. Maybe there can be an option in settings to disable, lengthen or shorten the time span in which sims have to go to the store.
kwanzaabot
5 years ago
Sure.

Grocery stores could act like those vendor stalls, so you can buy fresh fruit/veggies/fish, but presented in a new way. Sort of like how Realm of Magic has those magic stalls that look like they're inside a building, these would be stalls that blend in with a lot's walls. So your Retail lots could have additional businesses that you don't have to run yourself--or you could build a coffee shop, with a grocery store "next door".

I don't think there's enough gameplay for a Sims 2-style grocery store. It's just not THAT interesting. But a vendor stall with a new look? Absolutely.

Same could work for clothing stores--storefronts where your Sim can purchase new, unlockable outfits (like the Spice Festival tees).

I've thought before that it'd be great if there was an indoor shopping mall neighborhood, with teens hanging around, window-shoppers, etc.
It could come with a new ownable business of some sort (but of course you could plop down restaurants and retail businesses in the mall if you so chose).

Something like The Sims Freeplay's Sunset Mall could work really well for grocery stores, as in, the grocery is basically a facade that slots into a wall:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls5qbYd92MA
AndyZhang2896
5 years ago
> @Huiiie_07 said:
> Oh please no. I can't imagine something more boring than watching sims buying groceries. There's so many more exciting things they could add to the game instead.

No worry, delivery is an option!

> @Atreya33 said:
> 100% yes. I don't like how the food appears to be in the fridge out of thin air. I would love to have grocery stores.
> As a long time sims 2 fan, I still like how it was handled in that version. Fridges had a capacity that needed to be filled. If the counter hit zero, a sim could no longer cook because the fridge was empty. Besides going to a store there was an option to have groceries delivered (delivered in a basket by a npc, not magically appear in the inventory).

Oh my God!! I don't know TS 2 is so much fun, no wonder many said: "Bring back TS 2 but with TS 4 graphic".

Since TS 4 doesn't require any ingredients to cook, it makes gardening totally useless. I heard that having higher quality ingredients from gardening didn't make any significant difference. That why I didn't do any gardening in TS 4 (except when I want to get super rich by selling tons of dragonfruit).
shanell95
5 years ago
yes!!!!!!!!!! i love this ideal

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