@sheridanhoughton @You don’t have to send the parents home to collect him though. You should be able to click on the corner of his profile and choose “bring here”
Thankyou Pip and Sheri,
that solution really worked. I didn't know you bring them home that way. much easier.
and thanks, Sheri, for the extra information. Some of your ideas wouldn't work for me as I don't have all the EPs (eg renting out my real home). But it was all really interesting.
I have a cow and chickens on the retail lot, as well as gardens for growing produce and nectar ingredients. So when my sim cooks, it is a bit cheaper because of already having some of the ingredients. And I am looking forward to the nectar her husband makes reaching maturity so that it will sell for a lot as well.
thanks again, both of you
You're so welcome! Actually, I didn't rent out their home, I added roommates to it in the example I mentioned (roommates come with Discover University). Sounds like you're having a ball 'living' on the retail lot! I really like playing that way as I can 'open the store' for longer hours since the employee leaves after not long, and I can run the family on the same screen while customers browse. My favorite thing to do on a retail lot is to add 2-3 'Lice Cold Freezers' on the lot and add my produce and baked items or even meals my Sims (with high cooking and gardening skill) make (which can fetch a high price with retail markups). (You just drag them into the freezer and they automatically get marked as 'for sale'... and in the freezer they last a long time). The customers then just browse the freezer and help themselves when they decide... no need to check them out! On retail lots that's the way I make most of my profit, as it seems that the customers usually start purchasing more after I've been open longer than the employees stay. I will just keep one family adult or teen up the whole time open, and I rotate between them so they don't get too tired. I normally keep a retail store open 2-3 Sim days straight, and I make a LOT of money doing it this way (A perfect dragon fruit or gourmet meals/desserts sold this way fetch a pretty penny!). I've even added the freezer on retail lots like a car lot... in the lobby of the 'store'.)
This lot shows an example of what I mean: https://imgur.com/gallery/rRDXQtm
Anyway, enjoy your retail adventure! 🙌
thanks for your help.
I, too, love the Lice Cold Freezers. I have been putting baked goods, canned goods and milk and cheese in them. I don't actually have any staff yet. The couple who own the store run the store. And with most of the saleable things in the freezer, there is not much call for ringing sales up.
I hadn't thought of selling fruit and vegetables, or gourmet meals. So thanks, I will give that a try.
I have a flower arrangement table on the lot, and was thinking of later branching into selling flower arrangements. Do you have any tips for them?
thanks
@sheridanhoughton I have a lot of flower shops. They're my favourite things to sell. They make a huge profit too. The most important things to know are you must make them Timeless or you'll have a store full of buzzing flies and dead flowers. It's difficult to find which one it is too if you miss one. You just hear buzzzzzz and have to look everywhere. Also if you save the store to the gallery the arrangements don't save properly. Luckily another player warned me about that. They turn into pretty stalks. But, it doesn't affect Wedding Bouquets if you have Wedding Stories. You can copy those easily to save time by making a few, saving the room and then placing it again. But just not the full flower arrangements. I add a little wedding bouquet shelf to a lot of my retail lots this way.
If you have a Spellcaster you can use Copypasto to copy flower arrangements, but you can't restock those manually like other stock. You get a little ash pile. But bearing that in mind it's still a quick way to add flowers to a retail lot. You just get them to restock the same way or by making a new one.
I like to add the Nifty Knitting plants too (but frustratingly you can't sell the hanging pots). I add the ceramic llamas and the knitted cacti.
All my Sims head to the florist after moving in, but again those flower arrangements won't look the same if the lot is added to the gallery.
I always put a little apartment upstairs as it takes a long time to stock the shop one arrangement at a time. So my Sims will live there a lot of the time. One Sim has 2 florist shops. I also add the little flower stall from Wedding Stories to the car park so my Sims can buy flowers individually and get the Bluebells needed to make them Timeless.
