Would you like to have grocery stores in TS4 ?

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.

"Atreya33;c-17424257" wrote:
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 wish sims didn't take an hour and a half (game time) to make something that only takes me 20-30 minutes (including prep) Real time to make (Chicken Stir Fry, I'm looking at you.)

Realism only goes so far in terms of practical game application.

I miss having those things that I had in Sims 2- shopping for clothes, phones, groceries. Or ordering groceries online and having them delivered. Or learning to sew clothes so you didn't have to shop. I would love to have those things back for the added depth.

But, we had shopping in Sims 3 and it was useless. Because you could get food from the fridge and the grocery was a rabbit hole, it was completely pointless. If these features were brought back to Sims 4, it would be just as useless. We can get clothing from any dresser and groceries from the fridge. There would be no compelling reason to shop. (I deleted the mall they put in Magnolia Promenade because there was no reason to go there.)

I would only want them back if there was some way to do either/or. If you could make it so you could continue doing it the way you were OR you had to go shopping. I have no clue whatsoever how that could be implemented, but that is what I would want.

I wouldn't mind them returning, but it's not a thing that's on the top of my list of Missing Gameplay Features that Need to Return. Firefighters, Burglars, and Cops are actually my top missing link, with social games like "Rock, Paper, Scissors" and "Cops and Robbers" being a very close second on the list. Clothes shopping came back with GTW, but it's not as well-done as it was in TS2 at all, and I imagine grocery shopping would be just as diluted in TS4. It's a shame, really, because some of the best community lots I made in TS2 were shopping venues...

Yes i love that. I like that chore but for some reason doing laundry seems so boring

I would like if you could choose whether to go to grocery store or have the items ordered home.

I would love to have grocery stores back in the game but only if they disable the automatic buying of missing ingredients for cooking. It goes without saying that sims will be able to order ingredients online, as they seem to be able to buy anything online nowadays. Also, I think it would be lovely if they integrate grocery stores with gardening and fishing and collecting, so that sims who grow/collect vegetables or fish could sell their surplus to the grocery stores or open their own vegetable/fish selling stands.

I agree with @crocobaura. It's the gameplay that makes the difference, and gardening and fishing in this iteration has always felt meaningless because there is no truly meaningful gameplay associated with doing it. If they put a building of a grocery store in the game with sims walking around in it playing with their cellphones, it will do nothing. It would be the same as if they gave us a painting or video of a grocery store.

Whenever we ask for things like this, it's the gameplay that we want, not just another meaningless building filled with meaningless townies doing meaningless things. I liked how in Sims 3 you had to have the ingredients to cook the meal for free, or choose to pay full price for it if you didn't have the ingredients. And I liked the grocery options in Sims 2 as well.

Some combination of it all would be so wonderful and make a big difference in how my Sims' lives are structured and the choices they have to make. A game toggle for only being allowed to cook meals you had the ingredients for would be great, and other options for those who didn't want to play that way. I would love to play in survival mode for most of my sims, but be able to choose not to if I felt like taking a break from that and doing it a more "normal" way that still involved buying groceries or keeping proper ingredients on hand somehow.

I would love the game so much more if it had this in it.

Hate to break this to the eveything is spoon fed crowd, but in the real world one must go to the store to get one's munchies. That or phone in a bulk order and have it delivered. Same goes for clothes & accessories, books, magazines, games for the computer, assorted hand held gizmos, and some forms of entertainment. What's good for us should be for our sims, and was in TS2. There were even wants in that version related to going out to shop. These were also opportunities to meet other sims of all sorts and socialize the old fashioned way. I've even had sims find jobs, mates, and discounts that way. When buying things sims actually pulled out $, handed it to the clerk, and a real transaction was made, not mere disappearing funds in red floating by. One more instance of the old way being the better way!

"Oldeseadogge;c-17426888" wrote:
Hate to break this to the eveything is spoon fed crowd, but in the real world one must go to the store to get one's munchies. That or phone in a bulk order and have it delivered. Same goes for clothes & accessories, books, magazines, games for the computer, assorted hand held gizmos, and some forms of entertainment. What's good for us should be for our sims, and was in TS2. There were even wants in that version related to going out to shop. These were also opportunities to meet other sims of all sorts and socialize the old fashioned way. I've even had sims find jobs, mates, and discounts that way. When buying things sims actually pulled out $, handed it to the clerk, and a real transaction was made, not mere disappearing funds in red floating by. One more instance of the old way being the better way!

I live in the real world and have groceries delivered occasionally. I order online with Instacart, Peapod, or Amazon Fresh and bulk ordering is not required. I also order all of the other items you mentioned online. Movie tickets, concert tickets, video games, jewelry, gifts, toiletries, books and magazines on Kindle, etc. Can't remember the last time I went to an actual store to shop for clothing. So I'd love to have the option for in store purchasing and online delivery.