Get to Work retail needs big improvements

* Reduce the time it takes to check out customers by 2/3 (I can bake a cake faster than it takes to check out)
* Restock from inventory

these you can actually improve it yourself in the game.
first, there are rewards you can purchase with perk points to reduce check-out time
second, you could bake a bunch of cakes and put them in your inventory or a warming rack and restock your cake (remove the sign and restock it yourself by dragging items out of your inventory or warming rack)

Unless they fixed it, the one time i removed the signs and restocked from my inventory my store reset back to day one. I don't suggest that one unless someone's willing to test if this last patch fixed that. I was not the only person that happened to.

Unfortunately Graham said on Twitter they have no plans to add functionality to the cash registers (so they could be used to ring up sims). It's a bummer, but just goes to show how important fan feedback is to the developers. I'd go out on a limb to say they probably have no plans for fixing the socializing employees as well.

So...even when everybody are asking for a cash register with more options/ functionalities and improvements for employees they will ignore and move on? That doesn't show to me any kinda of importance that they put on our feedback at all...

"drake_mccarty;13543697" wrote:
Unfortunately Graham said on Twitter they have no plans to add functionality to the cash registers (so they could be used to ring up sims). It's a bummer, but just goes to show how important fan feedback is to the developers. I'd go out on a limb to say they probably have no plans for fixing the socializing employees as well.

They are working on fixing the employee bug, Graham confirmed it on Twitter (I think so) :wink:

You can improve how staff work to some degree by maxing out promotions then use berate if they are slacking and praise if they are doing the job correctly. There is still a lot to be fixed but using these does seem to improve performance. Also I only assign answer questions to staff and leave the restocking and ringing up to my sim and her partner. I can tell that Answer Questions is working as I do not have to greet any customers, the staff member is doing it already even if they are sitting down chatting, and my sales have increased.

"drake_mccarty;13543697" wrote:
Unfortunately Graham said on Twitter they have no plans to add functionality to the cash registers (so they could be used to ring up sims). It's a bummer, but just goes to show how important fan feedback is to the developers. I'd go out on a limb to say they probably have no plans for fixing the socializing employees as well.

using the cash register to ring up customers would be so cool!
when I first got this ep, I was so confused how my sim just popped out an ipad? out of nowhere to ring up orders! lol
but seriously, a line made in front of a cash register would so soooo soooo cool!

Once employees are trained up they're actually pretty good at everything except ringing people up. Once I had a max level employee, she would just ATTACK anything that got dirty or needed restocking.

Just uh... be aware that having a retail wall speaker is a bad idea, as your employees will go to great lengths to dance with customers, and not stop.

Yeah Ive noticed if you dont get to them fast enough (which is impossible with employees that wont work and with how LONG ringing one daang person up takes!) then they will leave or just drop out of wanting to purchase the item, then you cant talk em up again after that. Sale lost due to craappy employees and 2 hours to ring someone up. I wish they fix this.

There's a Retail Reward that makes checkouts take just a few minutes.

There's also a reward that makes restocking instantaneous.