Why isn't there any grocery stores in the sims 4 game?

@stbnchristine Yes, I went rather crazy with the gardening aspect after they put out seasons and had a number of my households with serious gardening &/or cooking/retail business combos.... and I added some of the greenhouses, homes with greenhouses (and retail stores with the freezers to sell from) then basically almost all plants individually in rooms into the gallery eventually. I almost always at lease add the multi-fruit/veggie/herbs plants to a lot since it allows them to cook more of the gourmet dishes, and they love to cook! 😉

what if its one of your sims birthdays , how do you get a birthday cake? 

@sunshinesami14, Your Sims have to make it!  Click on the refrigerator or oven and choose "cook" and scroll down to one of the cakes (like the chocolate cake, or the hamburger cake, etc.) As soon as you finish it, you need to click on the cake to open up the option to place candles on it. (Candles can't be placed on a cake that already has a slice taken from it). Then have the Sim you want to age up (or whose birthday it is) blow out the candles.  Just keep in mind that if the cake doesn't "like" where it is positioned on the counter or table, it won't let you put candles on it! 😮🤭 For some reason it is very picky about that! 🤨😃 

Sims 4 is a very sloppy, incomplete game riddled with glitches, lacking in animation and actual game play. I’m tired of people saying that the solution is no game play. You want to go diving solution rabbit hole, exploring another rabbit hole. That is what sims team think gaming is. Something not working turn it off. Somethings conflicting due to poor design, turn it off. Something that should be there having no game play added oh no problem it just appears without effort. Things appearing in inventories, refrigerators stocked without having to stock them, shared inventories of objects, your sim sitting on a phone or computer to get 50% of tasks done is simply not game play. It is lack of it. My advice mods. This game without mods is unplayable. I added mods to fix the emotional system (which is atrocious), whim system (which is terrible), bills and added grocery retail option as well as some other. I literally added some mods just to make the game have some sense (like a mod to allow kids to walk the dog and get responsibility boost. You would think the game would connect expansion and game add ins, but lack of reciprocity and connectivity between packs is another issue) Honestly there are modders who update their mods regularly and make this game actually enjoyable. I find some mods better then the game. I don’t put too many because they need updating any time the game makes a patch. Some people don’t enjoy the retail or gardening game play, but I love to make things and sell them. The games retail system is terrible (you can poof harvestables in to the air. Riveting game play) so mods made it possible to actually enjoy game play and not lack of it. As for retail best was in sims 2. Sims 4 not only lacks game play in that area it even lacks objects to make building a store enjoyable. Seriously: mods!. Without them this game is former shell of its predecessors. 

@CircuitD , this thread is over 2 years old.  It is doubtful that the Original Poster or some of the other people will even check this.  

I play with absolutely no Mods! 😄 While some bugs are more problematic than others, I've still been able to play -- it just depends on a person's play-style and goals. To me, the Sims 4 is still way more playable than the Sims 3, and I still attempted to play TS3 all the time! 

Mods can be great, but many people either don't want to use them, or else they can't use them because they are playing on a console, which until Sony and Microsoft allow TS4 to use CC/Mods, those people won't be able to follow your suggestion! 😭